drone

Drone music refers to a genre that uses long sustained tones with only subtle variations over the course of a piece. Drone appears in ambient music, avant-garde rock music, folk music, heavy metal, and the minimalist subset of classical music.

A drone is a held or repeated chord, usually a bare fifth, throughout a passage of music. A pedal is a single note that is held on or repeated in, the bass. An inverted pedal note is a sustained or repeated note in a high register.

In the world of sound design, drones are often used to 'fill out' a scene, or to provide a sense of location. For example, if the scene occurs in a swamp you may have a background ambiance that includes frogs, wind through the trees, splashes, etc.

A musical drone does not play a melody of its own. Instead, its continuous note or chord serves as a support and focus for both the melody and harmony produced by another instrument or singer. This note or chord is typically based on the tonic note (1st scale degree of a particular key), also called the tonal center.

Musicians have been droning for thousands of years. The practice of creating melodic patterns over a single sustained or repeated note stretches back to the ancient Middle East, and instruments that produce drones are as old as music itself.

In a performance of Indian classical music, the drone is usually the first and last sound to be heard. It is created by the tanpura, a long necked, fretless lute whose open strings are plucked in a continuous loop throughout both performance and practice.

In a performance of Indian classical music, the drone is usually the first and last sound to be heard. It is created by the tanpura, a long necked, fretless lute whose open strings are plucked in a continuous loop throughout both performance and practice.

Modulation – Change of key Transpose – Re-write a piece in a new key Pedal – A sustained note, usually dominant or tonic: Inverted Pedal (Played at a high pitch) Inner Pedal (Played at a middle pitch) Pedal (Played in the lowest bass part) Drone – Usually a sustained part consisting of 2 notes (tonic and dominant).

Drones are small or medium-sized unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). They're unique in that they can drive remotely and autonomously, and they're capable of maintaining a controlled, sustained level of flight.

What is a musical drone? Sustained sounding of one or several pitches for harmonic support, a common feature of some folk music.

An aircraft's pitch refers to its movement along the up-down axis. In other words, pitch defines whether a craft's nose points up or down. That's sort of similar to a musician, where pitch defines how “high” or “low” a note is.

Various instruments have drones built into them, contributing to the characteristic sound of the instrument - for example, the launeddas, a Sardinian triple clarinet; the Appalachian dulcimer; the five-string banjo; and the vielle, the fiddle of medieval troubadours.