The only thing better than an excellent DIY repair is... well not having to perform an excellent DIY repair eh!

Following a marathon session on the drums you may find you have a screw loose, not through hours of pounding beats but more because, while you have been wailing on the pads, the tiny black screws that hold the frame together are undoubtedly coming loose. You will not know this until you go to pick up your drums and one of the legs falls off, and who keeps their rock room tidy enough to find a tiny black screw on the floor once it has fallen out? Not us that's for sure!

So todays top tip is:

• Check the screws holding your drums together from time to time - they could always do with a little tightening, or if you are a bit more of a perfectionist then get yourself some threadloc from a hardware store, this is basically glue that sits on the thread of the screw stopping those nasty vibrations loosening your screws (or nuts for that matter!).

Got any top tips of your own to share with the community? Post them below we'd love to know what works for you!

Our Drum Repair kit is almost ready!

Drum Repair Kit now availiable!

Following in the footsteps of our successful Guitar Repair Kit we are pleased to announce our Drum Repair Kit.

After a lot of searching and workshop testing to get the right components we are finally there,  just a few more bits to put in place and within the week we should have them available for sale. So if you are only reading this because your drums are broken and you don't know what to do, hold on just a bit longer and guitarherorepair will be there to rescue you!

More and more people are reporting that their Guitar Hero World Tour (GH4) guitars are starting to miss strumming inputs (mainly downwards) causing them to miss notes which seriously affects their enjoyment of the game. This kit will fix that problem or improve responsiveness of a sluggish strummer.

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This kit includes a replacement microswitch of superior quality and full, detailed, step by step instructions of how to fit it. This can be performed by someone with little or no previous soldering experience in about half an hour and is a very simple and effective way of permanently repairing a GH4 guitar for a fraction of the cost of a replacement (sorry no more news about GH3 guitars yet!).

The tools you will require if you do not already own them are:

• Soldering Iron (15 - 30 watts)
• Desoldering Pump (also known as a solder sucker)
• Torx Screwdrivers / bits (T6 &T10)

The solder sucker is optional but advised for those new to soldering.

All of these tools and more can be found at the lowest prices from our GHR Shop - check it out now!

The guitar is taken apart and a microswitch which is known to fail is replaced with one of higher quality. We have sold hundreds of these kits and the feedback is excellent from all over the world. The repair kit is compatible with Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 controllers. Replacement of this switch will ensure every note played is registered by the game and will also help to reduce the annoying clicking from the strummer.

The feedback we have received so far has been amazing:

switch works much better than orig - a must-have even if yours is working!!!

Life saver! Repair was simple with help from tutorial, now plays perfectly AA++

It was easy to install and a perfect fix for wireless guitar.

fast shipping, easy repair guide, A+++ seller!

PERFECT, u can c the quality dif between the 2 sw. Now I Can Rock again thx

Fast delivery. Comprehensive instructions.

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GHWT Strummer Repair Kit USD 1 Strummer Switch $6.75 2 Strummer Switches $11.50 4 Strummer Switches $20.00

GHWT Strummer Repair Kit GBP 1 Strummer Switch £4.75 2 Strummer Switches £7.95 4 Strummer Switches £14.95

GHWT Strummer Repair Kit EURO 1 Strummer Switch €4.25 2 Strummer Switches €7.00 4 Strummer Switches €13.00

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If you have any questions please have a look at our FAQs or Contact Us

Strummer Switches FAQ's

• With this work on my guitar?

These switches are comaptible with the Guitar Hero World Tour guitar only (same type of guitar as shown in the video) We are working on versions for the GH3 and GH5 guitars but at the moment we do not have a solution for these guitars

• Do I get instructions with my order?

Yes, you will recieve instructions via email and along with the instructional video shown on this page fitting should be a breeze.

• Do I need any special skills to fit this item?

You will need to be able to use a soldering iron but it really is a simple job and quite managable for a first attempt at soldering

• What tools will I need?

• Soldering Iron (15 - 30 watts)
• Desoldering Pump (also known as a solder sucker)
• Torx Screwdrivers / bits (T6 &T10) *NEW* our 8 in 1 Torx screwdriver Sets

The solder sucker is optional but advised for those new to soldering.

All of these tools and more can be found at the lowest prices from our GHR Shop - check it out now!

With the upcoming release of GH: Metallica, Activision will be selling double bass pedals for the drum controller to allow players to have a chance at playing along on some of the faster tracks on the new Expert+ difficulty setting.

While the second pedal is optional it would seem that it is needed for the highest difficulty setting as no human could possibly move their foot that fast! The new bass pedals will have a stronger spring in them to give a more authentic feel akin to a modern electronic drum kit.

Have a look over at our Drums page to find out about our bass pedals (single & double) offers

And here is the track listing for the new game

Metallica Tracks:
All Nightmare Long
Battery
Creeping Death
Disposable Heroes
Dyers Eve
Enter Sandman
Fade To Black
Fight Fire With Fire
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Frantic
Fuel
Hit The Lights
King Nothing
Master of Puppets
Mercyful Fate (Medley)
No Leaf Clover
Nothing Else Matters
One
Orion
Sad But True
Seek And Destroy
The Memory Remains
The Shortest Straw
The Thing That Should Not Be
The Unforgiven
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Wherever I May Roam
Whiplash

Songs by other artists:
Alice In Chains - No Excuses
Bob Seger - Turn The Page
Corrosion of Conformity - Albatross
Diamond Head - Am I Evil?
Foo Fighters - Stacked Actors
Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather
Kyuss - Demon Cleaner
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesdays Gone
Machine Head - Beautiful Mourning
Mastodon - Blood And Thunder
Mercyful Fate - Evil
Michael Schenker Group - Armed and Ready
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Queen - Stone Cold Crazy
Samhain - Mother of Mercy
Slayer - War Ensemble
Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster
Suicidal Tendencies - War Inside My Head
System of a Down - Toxicity
The Sword - Black River
Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town