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I have been using Chase's book and tuner for two weeks. The first week I used the tuner while doing Maggio arpegios and pedals and found the tuner very helpfull. It helps you find the "sweet spot" on all your notes.

Now , more specific to this thread. Chase provides tracks with "drones" on them. The drones help provide the pitch center for all the specific keys. With these drones I have been practicing scales and chords from the different modes of the scale. Playing the scales and chords with the drone in the background really helps to hear the relationship between the note played and the pitch center.

Practicing like this can be very meditative in nature. You can actually hear how every note fits into the sound of the pitch. Its very liberating when you start to improvise over the drone pitch using the scale. It is different to my ears than playing over piano chords.

I would love to hear from Chase and Ingrid on how they use drones to practice tunes. How can we get drone tones with changing chords or pitch centers?

Oscar Onoz