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An experiment with some natives in some jungle that had never heard western music didn't find any music had tension/resolution harmonious/discordant when compared to eastern music. The beat seemed to have more interest. Eastern music has far more 'notes' in a 'scale'.
As westerners 'in general' we cannot 'handle' eastern tones , . . . . this is probably courtesy of 'The Well-Tempered Clavier' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_temperament where we 'learned' to be in tune. But we still desire some primordial chaos. For example when you lower your voice to warn a child "Don't you dare do that" we drop by a 3rd from our base tone. Want to scream at somebody going through traffic lights on red we use a perfect fifth - Oh my God, you are going though on red. But deviation from the perfect will create added tension (creep up to a whole tone bend is pure chaos really) and we love that. Look at George Harrison's lead riff in I've got a feeling where he just bends one string one tone slowly, and that is it, genius, East meets West!
Certainly phenomenal what you can do with chords though! Different paint - neat!
http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/113509/new-string-concept-in-tune-bends#latest
There's a link to the paper which explains how they work.
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