Abstract: A drum dampener kit with a dampener and stabilizers. The dampener includes an annular ring made from a relatively dense material such as steel, and a pad. The ring is the same as or slightly smaller than the drumhead. The width and thickness depend on the desired weight. The pad is a soft material attached by an adhesive either to the ring on the bottom or wrapped around the outside edge. The pad is a single piece around the entire circumference or a plurality of pad sections spaced around the ring. The stabilizer has a hook that hooks under the drum hoop and loops over the top of the hoop to a foot that holds the dampener onto the drumhead. Studs on the top of the ring and a complementary holes in each stabilizer provide a mechanism for retaining the dampener in the correct position on the drumhead.