Any suggestions on how to help tone-deaf students? With one of my students, if
I provide a single pitch and ask her to imitate it, she can't; the pitch she
provides is off by at least 3 whole steps. Also, she seems unable to sing a
simple "do-re-mi"...etc scale - instead of advancing by whole steps and half
steps, she's doing almost an arpeggio by 3rds or something. She doesn't
understand how small the range is for whole steps and half steps.

I don't know if she's clinically tone-deaf, but for all intents and purposes she
seems that way so far