A student was playing along with the drone, working on locking in pitch. He was close but not right on the money. He seemed reluctant to make larger adjustments (I see this a lot).
I got him to purposely bend farther out of tune and just listen to the beats. Once he had "permission" to play the note out of tune, he seemed to relax and hear the pitch in a more non-judgmental way. In other words, he was simply hearing his intonation without any extra moral connotations.
Sure enough, he quickly "locked in" the tuning.
That's when I noted,
"Maybe you have to accept dissonance in order to find consonance."
Maybe that could a be life lesson as well.
Maybe that could a be life lesson as well.
