when you increase or decrease the tension of the drum head it makes it louder or softer
the head If you mean a drummers drumstick it is called the tip.
Use a pad or using brushes, Brushes make the drum quieter when hit then when hit with a drumstick. The Brushes might make the drum sound a little bit different then when hit with a drumstick. A pad will also make it quieter, it sounds like the drum but only muffled. It's recommended that with a pad to use drumsticks and not brushes.
It depends what type of drum it is because some drums you need to hit with your hand and some you need to hit with drum sticks
you hit your bum violently on a drum. no specific drum is required.
hit it
You hit it.
The "electronic" of the keyboard which is hit by the keys touching it.
conga drum
cause the drum make all of kinds of sounds
The skin of a drum is pulled tight over the rim. This gives it some elasticity, which forces the drum stick upwards when it has been hit.
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