Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale

This shows how music could bring us together. Now, imagine singing in the Heavenly Choir...Ahhhh

It is lovely to hear people playing

That’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen

Bobby McFerrin. The man, the myth, the legend!

-What is Your favorite instrument?
-Audience...
XD

This guy invented Jacob Collier.

Anyone know the song he joins in with?

Ti amo.

Bobby McFerrin...pure genius.

I once went to a loft part where him and Linda Ronstadt did a performance. They kept joking they weren’t ‘that linda and Bobby’. Halfway through they got a phone call, and had to leave. The roads were frozen, so I don’t know where they went

The best part is you don’t need suite and boots to show people who you are….Just be!

“If you’re looking for a job in neuroscience…“ All musicians are neuroscientists. He already has a job in neuroscience.

Amazing🎉

great talent

The cool thing about this demonstration is the science of music needs no translation. No matter the language, any group watching this will understand it.

The thought process that goes into that, the idea of actually wanting your audience to engage and do, to make the subject the focus and give away centre stage.
Legend of a man.

My every morning in local bakery 😂 papa pa papa pa

Amazing video! Something else I've noticed is that you can have an audience full of individuals who are completely tone-deaf, yet when they all sing together, they collectively have perfect pitch.

Makes me soooo happy...what a ledgend

Just had the reminder from Joe Scott of this phenomenal phenomenon, and had to watch it again. It's just so beautiful a thing to watch and hear.

In these very vulnerable situations where a whole crowd is singing together in a unified way, a lot of people laugh or misdirect, and I think that might show how some people push down a lot of our true feelings for a more comfortable lifestyle.

Every time I watch this it makes me think about something new, love this video.

😮 impresionante

This blows my mind. Even a non musically inclined person can keep up with this in time. How do we all know this and don't recognize its power!!!???

Legend 🔥🔥🔥

Amazing

Possibly the greatest video ever

Brilliant!! ;)

Es impresionante cómo Bobby puede ser capaz de hacer cantar a públicos de cientos y hasta de miles de personas. Ahora de manera espontánea la gente canta en la escala pentatónica, siguiendo las tonalidades que les transmite Bobby.

genius

Wholesome ❤

thins brings a tear to my eye and I don't know why. Its remarkable.

Amazing

so fun,

Sensacional, simplesmente espetacular!

💜

He's a jazz singer.

Unreal. And a great demonstration. (Bobby McFerrin is one of my favorite people) How Bobby noticed this or came by it baffles me. I've been in music all my life and never realized that a pentatonic scale is imprinted in us.

Interesting enough, I tried replicating this at my home with family and got different results. They intuitively followed a major diatonic scale instead of a pentatonic. This happened because I didnt go to the sixth degree below the tonic before going up again. This is a nice experiment because it teaches us how giving certain instructions to the audience hands us different results depending on the instruction. Sorry if Im not very clear. It's late in the evening 😅

Dam that melody was really good. Simple but really good, did he make that on the spot or is that an actual song?

Bobby McFerrin is one of the most creative musicians in history.

There is something... primal about this. Reading many of the comments, it seems to hit some untapped 'thing' in our core! An Astounding and emotional demonstration that I never tire of watching.

Genius

The way he lets the audience sing the next note in the scale without singing it first is genius.

Somebody knows that song name?

that's how musicians without knowing the theory write their music, the just feel it.

This never gets old - "plays with the audience" indeed

Also.....One man can control an entire crowd of strangers.

Proof that we all have music in us! Each one of us. Thanks, Bobby 🙏🏼

Makes me cry every time wow

Genius