How Drone Strings Can Unlock Your Guitar Playing ★ Acoustic Tuesday 225

Acoustic Tuesday | Guitar Routine Show

Tony Polecastro

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🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Drone strings aren't used by many guitar players, but it is a crucial tool for helping you practice and even perform! This video will cover all the basics of using drone strings, when to use them, and how to use this technique to the greatest effect. I love drone strings because they add so much body to your playing. Depending on what key you're playing in, drone strings can make a huge difference. They can fill out your sound, give you a nice bass-y foundation, and make your playing much more musical. One of the easiest ways to start experimenting with drone string playing is tune your low E string to a low D. Then, you can play an D minor scale on the middle D string. This can give you a load of melodic phrases. You can apply this technique to any of your open strings. But there's one important thing to remember: drone strings don't have to be lower than the string your playing melody on. You can use an open G string and play the G minor or major scale on the A string. My hope is that you walk away from this episode feeling a little more inspired to use drone strings. If you're a guitarist who plays by yourself, drone strings really add depth to your playing. It sounds, almost, as if there was another guitar player backing you up! So go ahead and try to add some drone string playing to your guitar routine this week. It might just become your new favorite technique. In addition to discussing drone strings, here's what else is packed into this episode… Cristina Vane Western AF Charlie Parr Smithsonian Folkways

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0:00.0	What do drone strings do for your guitar playing? Drones sounds boring, but this technique
0:05.8	couldn't be any further from boring, and in today's show I'm going to teach you all about it.
0:11.3	Hey, Tack family, welcome to episode 225 of the Acoustic Tuesday show. This show is designed to
0:17.8	inject your guitar journey with a weekly dose of fun, focus, progress, and inspiration.
0:22.6	Speaking of fun, today you're going to hear from a TAC family member who's going to share with you just how powerful fun has been in his guitar journey.
0:30.6	And you're going to see which guitar like the TAC family is working on today.
0:34.6	It's entitled Dungeon Master and it includes drone strings. Plus your weekly
0:39.3	dose of acoustic news awaits you and it includes two artists who use drone strings to
0:44.4	their advantage. Speaking of, go ahead and grab your guitar and let's try something new.
0:49.0	I wanted to kick off today's show with a bit of an experiment. This is something that's been rattling around my brain for some time and I thought, you know what, today is the day to try it out.
1:00.0	You know, every acoustic Tuesday I show you what guitar lick the TACFAM is working on.
1:06.0	And I thought to myself, you know, usually there's a lesson behind the lick so I wanted to try
1:12.0	this new segment entitled lesson behind the lick so you get a little bit of
1:16.8	background as to what are the inner workings of the guitar lick so you can take
1:22.6	the concept so you can take the inner workings and apply them to the greater range of your playing.
1:29.6	So in this segment, lesson behind the lick, I want to divvy it up into four chunks.
1:34.7	First, I'll tell you what the concept is.
1:37.9	Second, I'll share with you what it does for your playing, what it offers you.
1:43.3	Third, I'm going to share with you why it works,
1:46.7	some of the theoretical aspects behind it, and then lastly, I'm going to show you some examples.
1:52.0	So you can see the concept take different forms. With that being said, let's go ahead and get started.
1:58.0	The concept we'll be discussing today is using a drone string.
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