{"id":72,"date":"2010-02-27T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/brain_blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2016-07-28T21:08:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T21:08:44","slug":"demonstration-of-how-the-brain-predicts-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/brain_blog\/2010\/02\/demonstration-of-how-the-brain-predicts-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Demonstration of how the brain predicts music!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"music4surgery\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"https:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/brain_blog\/2010\/02\/demonstration-of-how-the-brain-predicts-music\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Our brains expect certain melodic, harmonic and rhythmic eventualities! This is a great demonstration of that!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/21504484\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Bobby McFerrin Pentatonic Scale\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bobby McFerrin is the brilliant man who wrote &#8220;Don&#8217;t Worry, Be Happy.&#8221; In the summer of 2009, he was a presenter at the World Science Festival. Here&#8217;s what NPR had to say:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.<\/p>\n<p>by Linda Holmes<\/p>\n<p>At the World Science Festival in June, Bobby McFerrin did this demonstration with the audience. 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