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Originally Posted by Savage Clone
Ahem, Indian music, anyone?
Seriously though; I find having a drone in place to be infinitely preferable and far more improvisationally inspirational than dead air most of the time. I sometimes like to use my friend's "Raagini" (a tanpura machine that produces drones) during solo guitar performances. It's definitely nice to have it there, and gives a surprising amount of textural stimuli to respond to while still maintaining almost total freedom within its key.
I wish I could see this show.
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A drone is a drone is a drone, but you have to remember that not all drones are the same. A lot of improvisers are rubbish when they have drones, some of them are very good. I try to avoid them because it's very easy for me to slip into endless eastern scales, and I'm not the most modal of players.
Mr Clone is right though. Indian music indeed. Drones don't necessarily mean static lines.