VIDEO – Pentatonic Scale with Bobby McFerrin

This video shows how we are all programmed to hear the pentatonic scale. We are 'programmed' because of the music we listen to day in and day out from when we were babies.

This experiment at the 'World Science Festival' is a real eye-opener. Check out this video with Bobby and see what's going on here – and have a wee think about it.
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I think it helps prove a point about playing guitar.

The point?…

Well, often we are too scared of making mistakes when we should be closing our eyes and just trusting our hands and fingers to play the right thing. We tend to inject our present consciousness onto what our fingers are doing. We watch to make sure our fingers go where we 'think' they should. This gets in the way and trips our fingers up. This is a major source of mistakes in our playing.

So a solution could be to just relax, put on a jam track, close your eyes and just play along without any regard to your fingers at all.

Just play, damn it! Live in the moment – live inside the sounds you are creating and are being a part of. Let your 'soul' speak. Let go. Your subconscious knows more than you. Enjoy…

Please leave your comments below… I'd love to hear what you think.