Entertainment For Lively Minds
Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale
Posted by seanioio on 2 February 2012 - 9:37am.
No sure if anyone else has posted this (I had a look but could not see it anywhere) - but here is Bobby McFerrin at the World Science festival shwoing the power of the pentatonic scale - really interesting.
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That's
great !
I spent several years
telling all and sundry that the Don't Worry Be Happy hitmaker had committed suicide.
If you have a chance/time
I'd recommend watching this whole event. It was a debate into how the brain perceives sounds and music. It really is very informative and entertaining. After the first part - which is Bobby improvising - the discussion proper starts here:
This is your Brain on Music guy participated.
Pentatonic fun
I've actually tried this experiment at my special needs primary school, in front of seventyish kids and about 25 adults. It pretty much works; enough for me to try it more than once, anyway.
I didn't quite manage the panache of Bobby McFerrin, but then I bet HE can't play "She'll be coming round the mountain" on guitar while being attacked by a small, frenzied child.