I love music. (If you somehow missed that about me, we've obviously never met.) And I'm enraptured by the capacities of the human voice. AND, the human brain baffles me.
Also, Bobby McFerrin is really, really cool and you can't convince me otherwise.
There's a GREAT comment about this video on YouTube. It reads, (from 1987GTD) "People always laugh when they are suddenly aware of their awesomeness." Right? Right?!
If you want to read more 'technical' comments focusing on the way that McFerrin is highlighting the power of the human brain as it relates to the pentatonic scale, you can read some of the comments at TED.
And if you can't live without a little more McFerrin fabulousness, go listen to this AMAZING collaboration he does with -- tada! -- his audience. They do a juxtaposition of Bach's Prelude No. 1 and Charles Gounod's Ave Maria. (Tells you a thing or two about the knowledge set McFerrin's audience brings with them.) Plus, for vocalist geeks (like me) he gets in a few laugh-out-loud singer jokes! (On an only barely related note, my favorite music joke of all time is the following: "You all know what syncopation is, right?! It's irregular movement between bars!" And all the credit on that one goes to Doc. Shearer, my teacher and music magician for four years in college.)
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