PLN 25

I recently saw a video form the World Science Festival featuring Bobby McFerrin. This video matters because the things that Bobby can get the audience to do, baffles the scientists. Bobby uses the pentatonic scale, which is the black keys on a piano, to get the crowd to sing with him. Bobby gives the crowd the first two notes, and then when he jumps to the third, the crowd follows with out him having the pitch given to them. Bobby then uses the whole scale to get the crowd to sing a song with him, which amazes the neuron scientists behind him. They can not understand how the crowd can sing a note that they are not given. Bobby explains that no matter where he is and no matter who is in the crowd, it always works the same way. That is the power of music; the human mind understands it and can follow without question. Unlike counting from one to ten, where not only do you have to know the numbers but what order they go in, music is very simple. Music is away to bring cultures together, like in my PLN 23, about the Tunak Tunak Tun video, everyone understands that it is music, even if we do not understand what the worlds in the song mean. I think it is really cool that music comes naturally to the human brain, because it means that no matter how different our views may be we are all connected by sound.