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Do you use drones in your music? A drone is a note or notes that continue throughout a piece or section of music. Both the Scottish and Irish bagpipes use drone pipes. It's those notes, usually in fifths, that keep playing through the melody. A 5 string banjo has a drone string. There are drone tones used in Indian music. Early organ music will have a pedal tone.

Many folks will play a G, C, and D chord on the guitar while keeping the notes D and G on the top two strings (making a G, Cadd9, and D sus4).

How about you, do you drone? How about me, am I simply droning on?

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I love drones...they remind us what key we're in.

"Jangle" is popular again...that's that Byrd's sound, often using electric 12-strings, and playing a chord pattern while keeping one or two strings open...thus creating a drone. My favorite "guitar drone" is to keep the high E and B strings open while I play "E figure" barre chords...Sounds great barred on E, A, B...and especially the F#. I've written probably a dozen songs using that drone.

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I like to drone
when I'm alone
or on the phone
I drone.

I drone
sometimes with wood and stone
I love the tone
Of a drone.

when I give the dog a bone
I drone
it's a skill I like to hone
the constant moan
like an aural cologne
when I'm in my zone
I drone.

A chanter! A chanter!
Forget all this banter
Get back to the seeds
that I’ve sown
gotta sharpen the reeds
in the shape of a cone
I condone
I can drone
I can drone

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Okay, I'll post it in the lyrics forum. I was inspired - thanks Mike.

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A tome to drones. I love it.


You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -Johnny Cash

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I like Tom's lyrics, ha ha.

Some people do like to drone on, but not me. Really.

Yes, Mike I have, on one occasion, used a "drone", in trying to do something minimalist. Not sure how successful I was. But I think you have inspired me to try again. After all, if one can be good at droning...


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I remember Nancy, she fail in the woter an droned.

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Originally Posted by Mark Kaufman
I remember Nancy, she fail in the woter an droned.


Say, were you with Ted that night?

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Oh No, That was Mary Jo!


You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -Johnny Cash

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But everyone knew her as Lil...Lil McGill.


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Great Topic!

I looked at sound more than if I bounced off of fiths.
I used to like taking dark riffed notes of a bass sound and go thourgh a recording, adding layered synths and sometimes guitar around it.
Mainly new wave/punk.
But there is almost a horn type of feel, a gradual build up from that one bass riff and synth.

Drone is great for building up in a recording.

I have a couple recordings I am currently working on, three part songs doing that.
But repitition can sound too jingly.
Drone never brings to mind cookie cutting pop.
I like these songs to where much is placed around 3 chords and the sonic effects.

Pink Floyd is one of several acts that use a basic riff through a recording and add to it..
Procol Harum seems to have that too with "A Whiter Shade Of Pale".
Copped from a Bach piece and unforgettable.
Those drums keep that song flowing.
Also Traffic's "Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys".
Is there such a thing as a drone rythmn?
I love that bass, piano, and drum.
I would like to do a song in that style without copping it.

I don't know if this is what was meant.
I always thought drone meant the same basic riff through a song.

I liked that odd, off key layered bass in Nirvana's "Come As You Are".
May not be a band that goes over at this site.
But that is the type of bass sound to build upon.

I think I see the drone in the hook that is burned forever in my head.

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Yep, but usaually a bunch of chords over a constant bass line. Or a high floater, maybe strings, over a couple of changes. Brings in intersting harmonics.

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Good stuff, folks. Matt, the traditional definition of drone calls for musical tones, but in principle, an insistent rhythm would be very similar. These days, I'd call a repeated rhythm a "loop," even if it wasn't actually being looped. A constant phrase of changing notes, however, isn't a drone, but rather an ostinato. Check out the ostinato

Nite, yep I like high floating strings, organ, or synth stuff.

To all:

Related to a drone, try this, play an A minor chord. Then in the bass, play the same chord with an F note, then the same chord with an F# note. An old chum of mine, Mike Smith, wrote an excellent song that used this (only his was F#m I believe) called "Car on Fire." So for bonus points, what would you call these chords?


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Hmmm...

Amin, Fmaj 7th and ...... F#min dim ?

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Quick, nite,

Amin, self evident. Fmaj 7th...F A C E...root, third, fifth, maj seven...bingo. F#dim...F# A C E...root, min third, diminished fifth, min seventh...nope.

By the way, there's also a trick to this question.

Mike


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Ok, I'm not seeing the trick, so how about C dim 6th ?

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Originally Posted by Mike Dunbar
So for bonus points, what would you call these chords?

Arthur.

Now where's me points?

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Mark, actually we stopped using points when we went over to electronic distributors. Thread Drifters Rule.

nite,

Let's look at the chord by itself. F# A C E. A garden variety diminished chord is technically a fully dimished seventh: three minor thirds stacked up. root, minor third, diminished fifth, and diminished seventh (or double flat seven). In the key of F#, you have F# G# A# B C# D# and E# (1234567) So F# is root, A is flat third, C is diminished fifth, and E is just flat seven...not double flat seven. This is what is called a half diminished chord, or a minor seven flat five. So it is F#half diminhed, or F#m7b5. HOWEVER, there's another trick. Play the chords, listen to them, and see what they sound like...in context.

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What ? Ya can't have a half diminished chord. I agree with F#min7b5, but are you guys in Nashville making things up ?

I think half diminished is kind of like being half pregnant.

OK, just played em. Woke up the wife,she's not pleased !

Next chord in the sequence is F chord over a G bass.

The F# bass is a passing note, part of a chord structure. I'm hearinng what guitarists refer to as a sus chord. ( for the F# bit )

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Wow. Guess I'd have to say if I gets in over my head, I drone. Canna swim. You guys are way over my head. Think I go shallow water now.

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Nite,

The full name is the half diminished seventh, it's also known as the "Bernard Hermann" chord as Mr. Hermann used it often when scoring Alfred Hitchcock's films. Here's a run down of chords including the half-dim7.

http://www.tonalityguide.com/xxdim7.php

I'll give you just a hint: it sure sounds like a chord. The chord it sounds like is a chord without a note.

Joe, a droning man, doesn't sound good. I'd pitch you a line, it can float if it doesn't hit something sharp and go flat, then you'll be swimming with the bass.


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Thanks, Mike. If you throw me a line, I shall feel positively augmented.

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Joe, that's a major relief for me, now I can rest.


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Ah, ya got me Mike. I want to play some more, but i do have to sleep. You're the man with technicals, and it's good to get the brain firing again. Sort of lost it for a few years. Let me have a sleep and a think on it, and I'll get back to you.

You do good stuff Mike.

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how would you classify this - a didgeridoo played with circular breathing. Most likely, it's nonestop like a drone, but played well, it also has rhythm, and with a good instrument, lots of overtones, so more than one pitch and possibly melodic.

Would it be a drone, ostinato, or something else??

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Hey Tom,

Well, probably the old fa...I mean the revered giants of western music who have gone before us and created the names "drone" and "ostinato" would have found the didgeridoo to be too strange to be considered in "serious" music. They wouldn't have classified it as anything other than noise. Luckily for us, modern western music is open and accepting to sounds, new and old, from around the world.

It falls a bit "in the cracks." First, I'd check and see if the aborigines of Australia had a name for the role the didgeridoo played in their indigenous music. Just as the "clave" is the name for both the instrument and it's rhythmic place in Afro-Cuban music, that name would IMO take precedence.

If, without such info, I had to make a call, I'd say it was a "dronstinato."

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My favorite trick is the one Mike mentioned in the start of this thread "playing a G, C, and D chord on the guitar while keeping the notes D and G on the top two strings (making a G, Cadd9, and D sus4)." That's how I always play in G, plus you can play an Em with the D and G still anchored on the high strings (which makes it an Em7, I believe. This is a trick I first learned from the Smashing Pumpkins' "Disarm."

I also like to slide a first position D chord up and down the neck while keeping the open D string as a drone. In different positions this gives you cool slash chords like E/D, G/D. A/D etc. A first position A chord also sounds great played up and down the neck with the open A string ringing.

You can also do cool things with a Drop D, or even a Double Drop D tuning. Try dropping both E strings to D, then slide a first position E chord up and down the neck while letting both "D" strings ring. It's gnarly.


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Thanks Chris,

I like those sliding chord shapes too. The drop D and Double Drop D are a Droner's DeeLite!


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Droner's DeeLite? Dee-licious! Chris, I do that too - haven't tried that dropped D trick, tho. Will have to play with that.

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The Pink Floyd song "Wish You Were Here" is based on exactly what Chris just described. Those top two notes stay where they are, while chords switch about here and there between Em, G and A. Very fun to play.

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Yes, I do.

The piano (me) plays a D in the bass from start to finish, if that's not droning I don't know what is smile


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Y'all are droning on beautifully! The Beatles had a famous song where they sang a drone line through part. What was it?


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I've only droned when my foot, (you'll love that!), would stay on the Piano's sustain pedal too long! Kind of cool for a certain song maybe. NOT for most of course.

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Originally Posted by Chris Jay Becker

I also like to slide a first position D chord up and down the neck while keeping the open D string as a drone.


I wrote a song using that trick a few years ago for an old music project of mine and it was always the song people preferred.

I don't use that many drones but I do sometimes. Mostly, with the E, A or D strings. I've got to explore drones with the other strings wink

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Drone has a whole different meaning today... why do you think that is Mike?


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Tension and release. Drones create the tension.

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Pedal point is one of many useful composing techniques. Bach and many of the Greats used it often.

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In rock, metal, and alt there has always seemed to be some extended notes and latency. Some recordings I have done have come out too fast and imbalanced without that.
What is done at the time might not lay down with what is heard when recording.
Sometimes patching from stereo units with different sets of eq's has done more than pedals or mixers for me.

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Love playing drones. Used to do it all the time when I was still in a psychedelic band. Droning the D string on this one. A cover of a 13th Floor Elevators song. (I'm the second guitar to come in.):
http://redplasticbuddha.bandcamp.com/track/rollercoaster

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Playing a modal progression in E major sounds great on a Tele with a touch of dirt on. Keeping the bottom E as a drone while playing other diatonic chords on top. "Drone" twang all day!

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