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Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates Power of the Pentatonic Scale
Posted by Michael Opperman in Music on September 21, 2009
Minneapolis’ own McFerrin. “It’s funny just how low the average person’s opinion of their musical ability can be. Ask an average “non-musician,” and they’ll often claim to be deaf to rhythm and pitch. Push the issue, though, and typically you’ll discover quite the opposite. Listen as the crowd laughs at discovering they all share some basic intuition about how pitch works. These are, after all, science and neurology types, not musicians.”
World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.
A Street Called Amie
Posted by Michael Opperman in Business Models, Music on February 3, 2007
Amie Street is selling music using a business model with a twist. All music starts FREE. The price then increases to a maximum of $0.98 per song according to number of downloads. Artists maintain full ownership of their work and receive 70% of every sale after the first $5.00 to cover storage, bandwidth and transaction costs.