Oh damn this is cool. Bobby McFerrin turns the entire stage into a keyboard, and the audience into his pipes. It’s a fascinating demonstration of our brains in action. Well, not your brain and my brain. We’re just receiving the encoded video. But Bobby’s and the audience. Not the doctors on the stage either. They look like they can’t wait until it’s over.
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That IS cool. I like. On the other hand, it’s scary. How easily we groupthink. Interesting.
Don’t worry, Be Happy! *whistling* 🙂
Very interesting. I wonder what it is about the pentatonic scale that is so intrinsically ingrained that people automatically extrapolate to it from a couple of notes.
Pentatonic scale rules!
It’s because that tonality is the basis for most popular music.
It has seeped into our subconscious because we have heard it so much. He gave the audience enough notes that they could extrapolate the rest.
I saw another video with him that I thought was cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgvJg7D6Qck
If you don’t like it you can just STFU!!!
Tell the FDA to stop cattle companies from feeding billions of pounds of chicken waste to cows that make our hamburgers.
I was in an audience back in the mid nineties when he did something like this. I was getting all geeky and getting into it and singing along with him. People thought I was a dork.
Went backstage afterwards to say good job to him and some other musicians, and I swear he was givin’ me the eye. Probably thought I was some groupie hoping to service him or something.
Okay..now my brain hurts.
@8 I blame the chicken manufacturers for the fact that I am now developing breasts…or because my 7 year old niece is developing breasts.. I can never keep that straight..
@10 Could be that you looked mixolidyian to him..
^ As long as you keep your hands on YOUR breasts, you’ll be all right.
Geeze, pedophilia jokes are always creepy, aren’t they!?
Jeeze! Lacking inflection causes so many problems.
Now I am forced to explain!!! IT wasn’t intended to come over that way. First I don’t have a 7 year old niece. Second I was drawing a comparison between to the fact that the hormones in the chicken are causing children to mature faster and my gynocomastia.
There you made me say it!!
ARRRRRGGGG!
^ Hahaha! Don’t freak out on us, Jimmer. We all KNEW she isn’t REALLY your niece.
😀
@14 |-P
Oh man… a whole chat on this blog last night and I missed it. Because I fell asleep at 8:45 with my son Charlie.
^ A whole chat? More like a halfchat, I think. Or did you mean A*hole chat? Pleasant dreams.