Music Feeds the Muse: Bobby McFerrin and the Power of the Pentatonic Scale

by Ken on August 3, 2009

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

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Mo August 4, 2009 at 12:29 am

I love this clip! It shows the awesome power of music to unite people. It’s my favorite scale bar none! Pentatonic all the way :-)

- Mo

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Ken Robert August 4, 2009 at 10:21 am

I loved the first time the audience automatically sang the note without his singing it first.

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Olivia August 4, 2009 at 6:15 pm

I loved this, Ken, and it got me out of my depression-caused blogblock and back to blogging. I sang along and was amazed when somehow, I just “got” the first new note! It was delightful!

BTW, I watched your first video, and that was great, too. I have been vlogging for a while, and on purpose don’t get fixed up so that people will feel encouraged and think that it would be easy to make their own video. If nothing else, I think I’ve achieved that :)

blessings,

Olivia

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Olivia August 4, 2009 at 6:16 pm

I just now read your comment…you said something very similar! I hadn’t read it before my own comment :)

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