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		cturner on Feb 14, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own Music It is not just western audiences. Pentatonic is cross-cultural. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpvfSOP2slk A good way to find new ideas for music that people will care about listening to is to go back to the pentatonic system, and find new variations to take from there.

bane on Feb 15, 2015 [–]

A particularly beautiful example Mr. McFerrin does with various audiences.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Irii5pt2qE

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