How to SYNTH DRONE without boring everyone
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Drones are kinda boring. But I still love them. Here are some of my favorite ways to ambient drone the day away but still keep things interesting.
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Have you read Harry Sword's Monolithic Undertow book about the history of drones? Starts at the Big Bang up until more recent electronic artists
Hey man, you've got some great content, but what's with the negativity? 'This' is Boring, you 'hate' that, 'avoid' doing this, 'don't' do that. I understand clickbait tittles, but I can't like a page that's all negative view points. Good music be damned.
good drone is a backbone of any contextual music
I love how drones can be everything from subtle blissful fairy wings to brain melting chaos. I also feel like composing with drones as a focal point creates a strong relationship between the artist and the instrument. It’s like a conversation in real time.
“What happens when we do this?”. “I dunno, let’s find out”
I liked your comment about using tape loops.
I still use them in my music and have been doing it for a while.
Early step consisted on Walkman cassette players, a radio shack mixer, arp odyssey an assortment of pedals and an echoplex sometimes Iran everything through a second echoplex. So much fun and never boring.
My favorite three words “I like drones”
Is he saying “droln” though?
American's professing their love for drones in the current day/year has a similar vibe to how I imagine it would feel hearing late-1940's era Germans bonding over a shared love of ovens 🧐
I have the same Tascam 414 Portastudio, I would love to watch a video explaining how to use tape loops, or other ways of utilizing a cassette deck in combination with a DAW.
I love your videos about applying classical musical knowledge in other styles!!!
One of the most helpful synth/production videos I've watched recently. I've really appreciated a lot of your content because you keep music and arrangement as a central focus instead of "this cool gear will fix your problems" or "do this thing to make your music cool." Thanks!
Good stuff! Drones are absolutely fundamental to how humans interact with music - most, if not all, musical heritages have drones as prominent elements in their history. They add a frame for us to process the sounds we're hearing and put them in a specific context.
Honestly, in many ways, keys are just implied drones. Everything is meant to relate back to that "invisible" drone root note.
Simple or complex, they can be absolutely intriguing!
Not so boring after all! Love your narrative style and humor! You are such a good teacher!!!
Even the electric guitar isn't gonna blow people away like in the 50s. It happens to everything. Synths. Sound design. That said, I don't find your drones boring at all.
I love a drone/soundscape, good for the mind.
That was a treat. Thanks bro. I work in a very loud workshop where its a natural drone. Its sometimes nice to listen to the activity and think of how to reflect it in my music. This helped. Cheers.
Fundamental creation process must come from deep in the heart, mind, and spiritual connection to energies in this and other dimensions.
That made me go listen my own track named .... Drone 😆 Now I know science behind it, I used it as bass, rhythmic, texture, melody, moves, rubs, and sweet spots.
Never thought fancy organ leg work is for drone notes and not gas/brake! 🤪
Drone feticists are happy, next video bass rehab, please! ❤
Brilliant
They have their place for sure. Love a good drone 😊
That model d drone. Perfect chord progression
Good God I laughed a lot harder than I maybe should have at "Lyra 8" in the list of ancient instruments! 😂😂😂
I love the bass response in this video. Really grabbed me today. Good stuff!
Learned to love drones via Roly Porter. Now excited to listen to this.
Monuments is an epic piece of of music... Love your stuff, man!
Underrated channel. Keep up the great work!
Thank you!
Inspirational video. Thank you.
Great video and timely as I'm in the drone zone preparing for International Drone Day performance on Saturday!
Some very cool ideas here that can be applied beyond just the scope of drones. Loving this, liked and subscribed!
The section at 6:00 gave me Boards of Canada vibes! Nice video and thanks for the tips!
Great video! I learned a lot!
The light pedal is so dope. Sounds great with synths. Awesome vid as per usual
It's definitely a favorite. And thanks!
Wonderful video! ❤
I’m trying to practice my realisations and now don’t watch your videos unless I’m also practicing scales or something. So, naturally, as soon as you pointed out organ drones often are sitting on the dominant I just did that and then noodled something in dorian. Yay! 🥳
I often droned on the root or a third or a fourth, but never droned with a fifth until just there. So that was nice.
Finished it off with an old descending 2-5-2-1; and actually felt Done with a practice for once instead of just running out of steam on transcribing some piece! 😊
Loved this video.
Awesome episode !
Dang, I did not realize, I love drone music. Thanks!
Really interesting - thanks Jameson!
Great drones at the 7 min mark, reminds me of Alessandro Cortini. Great stuff
The drones that open portals. ..you know the ones🎉
glad i found your channel. great video, thank you! ❤
Beautiful stuff, the track with the midtone drone reminded me a lot of the across the spiderverse spundtrack
Hey JNJ, love your droneified compositions on Spotify, especially those with fat & crunchy moments, and rhythmic gating. Added many into my playlist Ethereal. You feature more than Eno or BOP (No way from Mars). Thanks for the harmonic (and dissonant) inspirations. Well designed emotional soundscapes will screw AI.
Honestly, I find drones more fun to make than they are to listen to! My tip would be to really slowly modulate everything, so it's almost unnoticeable, but constantly changing. I also like to slowly fade different notes in and out, so it's not just the same pitch for 15 minutes - I think you can have some harmonic movement to an extent. Also digital oscillators work better than analogue because you can vary the waveform more. I'm sure some people will disagree with that, just personal preference really. You mentioned wavetable, but FM/phase distortion and additive synthesis work well too.
I love you’re content I love seeing all your toys and the way you use them but if possible in the future you can teach this ideas in the box with plugins so I can see it in that perspective. Thanks !!
Hey, this video popped up on my feed - I loved it, especially the way you explain drones and elated techniques. I like the way you speak - very down to earth, like Venus Theory and David Hilowitz. I just subscribed, signed up and looking forward to hearing some of your discography on bc.
Much appreciated, and welcome!
A slightly dissonant dual oscillator tone through a BigSky does sound awesome 😋
Great video, very inspiring thoughts. 👍👍👏👏
Is it your "home" organ ? holy shrimp ! 😯
Really enjoy watching your video's, always interesting and helps me think about my own process :) I would love to see a demo of how you use the Lyra 8
I like drones after listening to Lisa Bella Donna´s "Cheyenne Crossing" ... 😊 (and of course the Lyra-8 is so "drony") and "Somewhat the Same" is now in my Bandcamp collection.
Drones the boring but this video is not! Great work.
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Drone fanatic, not afraid to admit it. Evolving dunes are the best!
You did it! And you used the Lyra-8 in it too, i love that thing hahah
Im also a Gurdy player and a bagpipe player so it tracks 😂
always an inspiration - thank you!
More drone content 😍
Which ones would you consider "tasty wavetables"? Any collection etc. you would recommend? Thanks. Also for your inspiring thoughts on drones.
"These are not the drones you're looking for"
@6:12 super lush 🖤
This tutorial videos are really nice
Thanks!
@@JamesonNathanJones Thank you!
Steve Roach is really good with non-foundational, I’ve noticed
Guess I'll have to wait for the droneumentary
Interesting ideas - just subscribed.
Thanks, and welcome!
8:45 re/ tape loops, Hainbach would say: Try half speed.
Half speed best speed
hainbach is bolshy
Tried it. He's not wrong.
I like drones
do chords above the drone need to contain the note of the said drone? thank you
5:57 this track is f****** amazing
3yrs ago I bought Model D when I saw this improv, I needed analog synth for production. Now I have whole studio 🤣
Drones fekkin rock
Simon the magpie just made a video on how to build one of his beehive style drones
BWV 543!
beauty is in the eye of the beholder
while I am here, are you doing something for Drone Day this Saturday?
I am hoping to do a livestream
Same here, looking forward to your release! I have a teaser for drone day. Let’s drone!!!😎
@@jaixiviii Drone Is Life!!
(gonna check out your stuffs...)
Looking over your sample pack website and that 8 pack bundle for $55 looks interesting… but I’m curious how big each pack is and how many sounds each one comes with.
The 2 most important factors of a sample pack imo, are size and number of sounds.
What do you think the main difference is between a pad and a drone?
It's similar, but a drone goes on for about an hour longer. 😂
I am sorry, I am so sorry, I'm a linguistics guy, I love thinking about the sounds we make in language, I mean this question entirely innocently but I must know! You say "drone" every time, in this video, in a way that surprises me, with (roughly speaking) a short, unmoving 'o' sound rather than what I've always heard before in every native English dialect, a longer 'o' sound that closes up as it is pronounced. So I am asking--do you by chance have a faint trace of an accent from some other language poking through there? (I.e. do you have a second native language or were raised around one?) Or is this just an American regional accent I wasn't aware of? (I've been assuming yuo're from Arkansas or nearby from what I've heard so far.)
I just noticed one time where there’s a diphthong between the short O and the long open O, around 7:30.
FWIW I have noticed some American accents just have more-clipped “roll” vowels. A lot like in Southern England it’s a lot more clipped than in the North or in Scotland.
Mississippi. I don't consider my accent to be very thick, but it does poke through on certain words. I actually appreciate your explanation as most people just call me Billy Bob Thornton and move on haha
All I listen to are drones. I’m also on Zoloft though
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You can always spice up your boring drones with C4 and a remote detonator
For cinematic purposes / film soundtracks, very useful. But otherwise... Jeeee... I really don't know what to do with those weird alien sounds...
Lol good title
putting chords over a synth pad that changes pitch, that's microtonal music. Polychords, you should probably reffer to those as polytonality.
You see, personally I think drones don't have to remain pitch-stagnant. To me, that's a useless distinction that I'm not attracted to, for aesthetic reasons, either. So, I'll change pitch on my drones when amd if I want to. Mostly I think of keepung the VCA open, if youwant a specific definition. But yeah they're cool to use.
Just in time for drone day, I see. I just did an especial about drones and did a couple... one of them with a guitar, an ebow clone and a looper pedal.
Drones are cool.
Melody?
Let's try some drones. Thx.
"I like big drones and I cannot lie...."
Is the Monuments song released yet?
I'll name it Bear Wringer
Drones resonate with us. I live to use drones and long sustains in my own music. My own personal theory is that waaaay back we couldn't really make music, just tones. Music thousands of years ago had drones (in octaves), not so much active melodic work.
"Druhhns"
"Drawns"
I would like that video but 5x longer :)
Slowed+Reverb version incoming
"Half speed is best speed"
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I drone, so I live.
If drones bore you then padLIFE ain’t for you.
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Music is subjective.
Great video. I too cannot emphasise the importance of listening to and being influenced by classical music (Organ music wonderful. Keith Jarrett capitalised on organ drones with his brilliant 'Spheres' recording), as often we get too carried away by the influence of the Indian raga drone. Not a bad thing, but ultimately can become boring easily and of course has been done to death. Not too sure about what is being played at 6mins in. Sounds far too 'Boards of Canada' which itself has now been overdone and has become a cliche. You hear that BoC theme in almost every TH-cam video featuring a modular, a cityscape and a sunset. Yawn!
Yeah the depressing channel is back!! and I agree to me (by themself) they are
5:55 track ID?
I hate the Drone of Radio Car COMMERCIALS MAKES ME SO UNCOMFORTABLE
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Looks delicious
Why does it sound like you're pronouncing *Drones* with an *L?* Are you trolling us *Drone lovers!* 😅
Nope just born in Mississippi