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Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale | World Science Festival
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Bobby McFerrin uses audience participation at a World Science Festival event to demonstrate how instinctively people follow the pentatonic scale.
HN shares it as a delightful demo of the pentatonic scale's near-universal appeal and of a crowd syncing without instruction.
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