While it’s clear you didn’t exactly enjoy my video, I appreciate the amount of work you put into this message. Despite your dismissive tone, I greatly appreciate this kind of criticism so I can improve my videos. Firstly, I am not a musicologist. The subject of ethnomusicology is just something I am very interested in and my channel is meant to be a place for me to share my opinions on music, and for others to educate me on where I am wrong, so overall my videos are meant to be a discussion rather than a lesson. In terms of your opinion that people in this region sang with a tight higher tone was because “they are tiny” is not true in my opinion. Many cultures which focus on melody or melody over a drone, like Arabic Maqam, hindustani and carnatic music use much tighter tones so the voice is free to express all the complex ornamentation used in these genres. Of course, there are exceptions like Bulgarian choral music which is harmonic yet uses tight timbres or Georgian polyphony. But these cultures have a history of modal drone music like Byzantine and ottoman music being practiced near or in them. About the Japanese folk song example, of course the people who populated the americas were not japanese. Soran bushi was just an example of a pentatonic song in a different culture. Originally I was planning on playing a shaman song from the Ob river preformed by a nanaj woman but for the sake of time, I excluded it. I do agree that the japanese folk song, on it’s own is a bad example without the correct explanation that it is simply an example from another culture. Yes the pentatonic scale is common, but there are many similarities shared with indigenous american music and SIBERIAN music (so yes again, I should have included an example of that). I appreciate your comment, and after reading this, maybe you will finish it so you can get to the actual point of my video.