World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale

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

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25 Responses to World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale

  1. tic130 says:

    why does this only have less than 2 and a half million views?! it NEEDS to be seen.

  2. GeeMunz13 says:

    Awesome!

  3. GeeMunz13 says:

    A minor pentatonic scale is the first scale Iever learned and Mike Freeland taught me that.

  4. belroc90 says:

    Que Genioo!!!!!
    

  5. wshp90 says:

    They ought to put the audience in shot every now and then. I wanna see those brilliant people. Have they been trained in music? ’cause I know I would forget how high the pitch should go at some spot…

  6. TrumpetCallofGodLT says:

    Hear what God of Israel YAHUSHUA-YAHUWAH (Son and Father are ONE) saying to our generation by His chosen prophets: Trumpetcallofgodonline. com ; Letter called “Purify Your Faith, and Come to the Father as It is Written”: EXCERPT: “Only in the Bible and through these very Letters, of which I have given to My prophet of the end of this age, shall you find Him and know Him.”

    Watch:

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    Regards.

  7. ivanalba89 says:

    Genius!
    

  8. rydertupua says:

    gosh, now im gonna look for”NOONTOBs”comment

  9. OttoLund says:

    Nice :)
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  10. Paris16273212 says:

    gosh, he’s genious… :D  it’s soo weird, but it works xD

  11. NealAGray says:

    I got the music in me and I can’t get it out and it’s starting to hurt………maybe I should try this…

  12. emmyjean711 says:

    thumbs up if you sang along

  13. AyeYirMa says:

    @metalboy27 It’s youtube actually. Fuck up.

  14. elinzualo says:

    LIKE A BOSS!!

  15. eaglestdogg says:

    i do believe he just played the human

  16. TheThomaswastaken says:

    In the Eragon series, the main character regularly describes the music he notices when entering other people’s minds. I think that the author did a fantastic job recognizing that all humans have music in the back of their mind, most of the time.

  17. hknuddv says:

    @fatiamh wow, only an american…

    It’s arabic. Which, by the way, is one of the most poetic and beautiful languages in existence.

    Before I get a reply saying ‘wut are youuu? Sum kind o’ terrrrist or sumtin?’
    I’d like to point out that I’m a white english teenager.

    You see the rest of the world actually learn about these strange things called ‘other cultures’ in school.

    I love how it isn’t considered racist to hate americans, because the whole world hates them :D

  18. hknuddv says:

    @fatiamh Just to add, 10 seconds on google yielded this translation:

    “God guide me to the right path and guide you and guide you to the true religion of Islam”

    People like you make me want to scream.
    Does the notion that an afternoon on wiki-fucking-pedia might enlighten you frighten you?

  19. Embrigh says:

    @hknuddv *reads what you wrote then reads what you replied to*. I thought he made a remark that denoted him as an American in someway. It appears he has not, yet regardless your remark denotes what I consider willful ignorance towards at population of 300 million comprised of a vast array of diverse ethnicities. Clearly he lacks your mental capabilities, but to stoop to his level to insult him, and thus insult others who lie outside your generality, does not show you know any better.

  20. fatiamh says:

    @hknuddv Umm..

    1. What do being a “white english teenager” have to do with anything?
    2. Ok so now Im suppose to be an expert on other languages?
    3. I go to school I know about different cultures, but wtf do that have to do with my comment?
    4. It was a JOKE! I was not being racist or trying to mock a whole culture obviously.
    5. Im a black english teenager but that too have nothing to do with anything.
    6. You could of ended it which “it’s arabic” not stupidity.

  21. fatiamh says:

    @hknuddv Thats very interesting you dick.

  22. loginsraulr says:

    Does someone know what he is singing? (I know it’s the pentatonic scale, but I mean it seems to be as though it’s part of a complete song) Thanks in advance!

  23. mhorodyski says:

    @loginsraulr for 99% it’s an improvisation around this simple pentatonic scale :)

  24. SoundsUniqueUK says:

    Brilliant!

  25. YouGotWoodRolled says:

    @hknuddv you’re a lame cunt. One moron does not represent 300 million people.  America is the most diverse country in the world.

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