army1987 comments on Post ridiculous munchkin ideas! - LessWrong

55 Post author: D_Malik 15 May 2013 10:27PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 May 2013 12:10:02PM 12 points [-]

(I remembered this yesterday while writing a comment about something else, but LeechBlock stopped me before I was able to write it here.)

The black keys on a piano keyboard form a pentatonic scale; that is to say, so long as you have an anywhere-near-decent sense of rhythm, nearly anything you can improvise using those keys alone will sound good. Non-musicians will be pretty unlikely to notice what you're doing, if they aren't very close to you.

Comment author: [deleted] 30 May 2013 08:52:17PM *  3 points [-]

IIRC There's a video (TED talk?) out there of a guy using this for audience participation, to great effect.

Edit: Here.

Comment author: ancientcampus 29 May 2013 07:15:18PM 1 point [-]

Wow, that's a big help to me. I can never remember the pentatonic scale, so that alone acts as an easy reference no matter what key I'm in.