Chinese Classical Music: Isn't it All Just a Pentatonic Scale?

Chinese music is often considered in the West as fairly simplistic in that it primarily uses pentatonic scales and does not modulate to other tonal centers within a single composition. In this video, I attempt to shed a little light on how the Chinese compositional style is derived directly from the overtone series and as is a tradition much more sophisticated than it often gets credit for. This is the first video in a series discussing Chinese classical music. If you want to learn more about other projects I'm working on in China, please visit my website at www.troymorrismusic.com Thanks for Watching!