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Monday, October 19, 2009

Pentatonic Scales

Hat tip: Xvi

From the description there:
Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale, using audience participation, at the event "Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus", from the 2009 World Science Festival, June 12, 2009.

For related content, please view the full "Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus" program at our website.
My description: Just flat out cool.

5 comments:

  1. Awesome. I actually wrote a paper during my first semester in college about the psychological effects/predictability of certain musical patterns, but seeing this done with the pentatonic scale is very cool :-)

    Thanks for sharing.

    -Yair S.

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  2. It's amazing what you can get people to do. Or what we will do for fun. We're so strange.

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  3. not just cool, awesome!

    i think it also speaks about how music is something that everyone in the world can relate to. either that or the fact that music can be mathematically based.

    kinda makes you understand why the hippies were all about using music to promote world peace

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