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: www.worldsciencefestival.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5
@phoenixsouvenir He made it up on the spot, but he’s just basing it on the pentatonic scale (black keys on the piano).
Just play only the black keys on the piano and you can create a unique song on the spot,
Did he make that song up on the fly? Or is it is a real song?!?!? I’m dying!
EPIC.
He demonstrates that every listener is indeed a musician !
yeah thats how you make a point in a conversation!!
This is fun to do at home, like at a family party.
Fucking genius.
VIDEO UPLOADER IS FUCKED IN THE HEAD!!!
haha:D
How could you dislike this video?
@AleifrLeifrson
Total insult to homosexuals, though I don’t know what is wrong with being happy.
81 people are gay homosexuals
81 people saw this without no volume
I haven’t read the responses but I will state my interpretation of the central lesson of this video.
People, from any culture anywhere in the world, are able to join into a chorus.
Human beings are intensely social animals and we often join together to do something amazing that we couldn’t possibly have done on our own.
@JustinBrown28
improv mate
i was totally ba-ing while watching this, and it works!
@thisdayjustbelongedt You missed the point completely. The reason this is amazing is because he’s talking about any typical audience of non-musicians with no musical training. There’s something very universal about the pentatonic scale that resonates with our brains, and we can immediate make connections to it even if we never played a single of note of music or sung before. That’s why the other guy mentioned neuro-science.
What song is he Humming ???
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@elchafa I found the whole session posted in 5 parts on vimeo. Go to vimeo dot com slash then the following numbers.
Part 1 – 5913737
Part 2 – 5916122
Part 3 – 5916328
Part 4 – 5917285
Part 5 – 5917773
Now do Classical Gas
@thisdayjustbelongedt that’s the thing. it’s not a trained choir. It’s an audience at a science festival
i dont really understand this. if it is a trained choir then wouldnt it be expected for them to be able to catch on the pentatonic scale and be able to take it to an upper or lower octave? i know i would be able to do this on guitar and i do not consider myself a good guitarist by any means
@elchafa just search for world science festival. I had found it a while back by looking for it like that and they have the entire list. This one was about music and I think how culture and other things affect music…well the science of it
I’m inclined to think he can only do that with scnfiuieftly large groups. I don’t think I could hit it without prompting, but in crowd there are bound to be people with some musical training who can serve as anchors for the rest the of us. So we’re not so much individually finding the next note as we’re following the lead of those who know it.Easy to test of course, if anyone cared to.