Music and the cognitive processes that take place when playing/listening to music has always been a subject of interest to me. I found this TED video a few years back called Bobby McFerrin Plays The Audience:
http://www.ted.com/talks/bobby_mcferrin_hacks_your_brain_with_music.html
And he does exactly that! By just simply jumping on the floor after aurally showing the audience what the first few notes were, they could sing a whole two octave Pentatonic scale in less than two minutes. Their brains recognized the pattern that Bobby showed them.
Despite differences in languages between people, we all have something in common and music really is a universal language as shown in the video. Music can unite people of any race.
This video has a great message behind it for educators: we do not need to give our students loads of instructions and tiny details, but rather we should just trust that they will figure it out. Bobby only sung two notes at the beginning and the audience sung a whole scale without trouble.
"The best way to teach someone everything is to teach them nothing" - Anonymous
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