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Watch me play ... the audience!

Bobby McFerrin · TED

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About

In this fun, 3-min performance from the World Science Festival, musician Bobby McFerrin uses the pentatonic scale to reveal one surprising result of the way our brains are wired.

The talk

  1. Watch me play ... the audience! 4 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
World Science Festival
Speaker
Bobby McFerrin
Year
2009
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Psychology and the brain, Music
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
Who can watch
TED gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from what the source says about it. How courses are placed