Drone Tone Tool
High quality reference pitches with the rich sounds of real cello.
Drone Tone Tool is an app created by professional musicians and music educators providing high quality reference pitches with the rich overtones of real cellos. We encourage musicians of all abilities to experience the benefits of reference tone practice!Why real cello drones?There are many electronic tone generators, and while they are better than nothing, they lack complexity of overtones and can be painful to listen to. Our cello drones are pleasing to the ear, rich in overtones and contain layered octaves to facilitate practice in all registers.Purpose and benefit of reference/drone tones:A reference (or drone) tone provides a center of harmonic stability. Our ears are able to discern the way that multiple pitches interact while strengthening our internal sense of pitch. By playing with a movable pitch (instrument or voice) relative to a fixed pitch (drone tone) we can start to perceive truly consonant perfect intervals, and shades or colors within Major/Minor intervals. This heightened awareness of relative pitch leads to artistry through intonation.Compatibility updates
Drone Tone Tool is an app created by professional musicians and music educators providing high quality reference pitches with the rich overtones of real cellos. We encourage musicians of all abilities to experience the benefits of reference tone practice!Why real cello drones?There are many electronic tone generators, and while they are better than nothing, they lack complexity of overtones and can be painful to listen to. Our cello drones are pleasing to the ear, rich in overtones and contain layered octaves to facilitate practice in all registers.Purpose and benefit of reference/drone tones:A reference (or drone) tone provides a center of harmonic stability. Our ears are able to discern the way that multiple pitches interact while strengthening our internal sense of pitch. By playing with a movable pitch (instrument or voice) relative to a fixed pitch (drone tone) we can start to perceive truly consonant perfect intervals, and shades or colors within Major/Minor intervals. This heightened awareness of relative pitch leads to artistry through intonation.Compatibility updates
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Does the job but is not worth the money because of its limitations: only one note at a time, doesn't continue playing when turning the screen off or switching to another app. There are enough YouTube videos with drones that do the job better.
What a great companion to practice! I am using it with chromatic harmonica and there is a huge difference with other apps which use an artificial tone.
Great sound, the cellos sound very real and rich in harmonics, it would be great to be able to play at least two drone tones at the same time, nevertheless a great app !
My wife the cellist loves it.
Thanks for the app! It's made my own cello practice SO much less painful to listen to. Do you suppose you could add a "pause" button for the tone? Currently if I think someone is talking to me or I need to hear something, I just tap the bottom of the volume bar, but the drone continues quietly, as does the metronome. Edit: I see that unselecting the pitch works similarly, but then I have to remember what key I'm in and can't just mash the screen.
black blank screen - nothing else
For cello players, and I imagine for string players, the sound is perfect. I wish it had the option of playing multiple simultaneous drones (root and 5th would be useful). The metronome is nice.
Great app to tune and develop your ear at the same time. This app was recommended for me from a well known musician.
Hi, I installed this app ( it says it is compatible and is installed) - but it just shows a blank black screen when I tap on it. Please do you know how I can fix this? Thanks !
Great concept, have been using the website so much that it made sense to pay for the app. I regularly share Drone Tone Tool with students and colleagues