Ambient Guitar Drones Tutorial: Techniques & Settings

►► A Beginner's Guide To Ambient Guitar: Free Mini-Course 🎁 → https://www.electricguitarcomposing.com/ambient-beginners-course In this new tutorial, you'll learn everything you need to know to create great ambient guitar drones. Drones are reverberated textures that give you a consistent sustained textures, like you could get on a violin. I use them all the time in my ambient guitar songs. They're a great tool to create ambient guitar atmospheres and textures. Let's learn all the settings and techniques needed to incorporate ambient guitar drones in your playing! 0:00 What are ambient guitar drones? 0:22 Using a 100% reverb pedal 2:00 Settings on the reverb pedal 6:52 Technique 1: Individual notes 8:43 Technique 2: Octaves and double-octaves 12:07 Technique 3: Full chords 13:44 Why picking softly is important 14:43 Timing of drones on chord changes 17:00 Example of a full drone song 17:50 Free ambient guitar songwriting course __________ ► Full list of the pedals and gear I use to make music (these Sweetwater affiliate links support my work at no extra cost to you. Thank you! 😊) - Singular Sound Aeros Looper Gold Edition (get 10% off by entering ANTOINE10 at checkout): https://www.singularsound.com/products/aeros-loop-studio?aff=62 - Strymon BigSky: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/rQqBPR - Strymon Timeline: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/JzvW0R - Strymon El Capistan: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/4PxqY9 - Strymon Ola: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/21LJ6O - Strymon Iridium: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/zN5O2M - Mission Engineering VM Pro: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/6eQD4N - EHX Micro POG: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/eK5jjZ - EHX Mel9: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/m5J1NM - TC Electronic Polytune: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/PyvnnM - Vox AC15 with Alnico Blue speaker: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/QyvEE9 - eBow Plus: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/4PxMoo - Mogami Gold Cables: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/XYvKBg - George L’s Patch Cables: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/OrvWjA - Arturia Keylab 88: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/ZQvR51 - Arturia Keylab 49: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/AW1537 - Focusrite Scarlett 18i8: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/AW155J - Shure SM57: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/VmvddJ - Shure SM7B: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/XYvE5y - Sennheiser MKE 600: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/0ZMzBY - Yamaha HS8 Studio Monitors: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/OrvELK - Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 4x4: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/R5NED2 - Sennheiser HD280 Pro: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/4PxMBL - Pedaltrain Classic Pro: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/NkvEYP - Cubase Artist: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Y9vKkK - Strymon BigSky Plugin: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/m5J1ky