Dissonant Chords
Some musical gifts
Relate to picking the perfect pitch,
Or vibrato virtuosity.
What about the gift of
Hearing the dissonant chord?
Riding out the discomfort of it
While the tension builds-
Sitting with the pain.
What is it about us that
Rushes resolution
When the script may call for far more interesting
harmonies?
For flexibility and growth (musical & physical)
Seem to take a strange combination of
Discipline & submission
The effort required to disbelieve
The stories you tell yourself under duress-
(“I can’t”, and “It’s too hard”)-
And to hold your note against the beats
Breathing & visualizing
Lengthening muscles
Progressive cadences
Gloriously sticky chords.
lhb, 2013
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