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Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale

Posted by choof on August 2nd, 2009

Have time for a 3 minute break? Check this out.

It’s a video from an event back in June called “Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus.” It was a panel of men (John Schaefer – the host, Daniel Levitin – scientist and Bobby McFerrin – musical artist) discussing the relationship between the human brain and music to better understand the relationship between the two.

The man in the video is named Bobby McFerrin. Most know him from his #1 single “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” Here he making his case for the pentatonic scale.

If you like this I suggest checking out the World of Science Festival Vimeo Channel, it has a lot of additional material.

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World of Science Festival Website
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One Response to “Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale”

  1. August 2nd, 2009 at 7:37 pm

    mikebell says:

    Wow, great find!! This is a really interesting video, I wonder if anyone has done any sort of study regarding this “phenomenon”… What effect does size of crowd have on predicted note accuracy/Is there any sort of ‘self-correcting’ mechanism taking place here? (For example, do people with weaker sense of predicted pitch hear the people around them and automatically ‘correct’ themselves after a few milliseconds?) what are the results when using other scales? etc etc

    Bobby McFerrin is an amazing musician, check this out.. pretty cool.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=codmxk7uLv8

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