Strong and Wrong

Strong and Wrong

There’s a little trick people use when teaching beginners how to solo in Jazz - which professionals also sometimes utilize - that goes something like this:

“If you hit a note that you didn’t mean to hit or that doesn’t sound right, hit it again. Then again and again, and maybe even hold it out. Then it will sound like you meant to do it.”

And it works.

There’s something about the way we process information as humans that makes us resistant to encountering information which goes against the norm of our everyday experiences, but then that resistance will break down with time and exposure.

There’s a lot of chatter about this phenomenon in the political sphere (how long after an idea is introduced to the mainstream does it become popular with the masses) and in psychology, but it can be highly useful in the artistic world as well.

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