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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