Single Ladies

In college, there are boring mentor groups and there are... BORING... MENTOR GROUPS. Mine was the latter. There had to be a way to make this Music Theory class requirement more entertaining! One week our beloved mentor Christina, informed us we would be playing a game - figuring out the solfege to pop songs (the epitome of excitement, right?).

(For all non-Music-Majors, solfege is what you heard in the Sounds of Music, Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, etc. and for kinetic purposes there are hand signs for each ones. You learn songs in solfege, do the hand signs, and it trains your ear to hear intervals and melody so you can write music easier.)

Much to pop music's discredit, we discovered how elementary the melody of most pop songs are. My personal choice was "Single Ladies" by Beyonce. I walked out of that mentor group with an idea. If I could convince Christina that making a music video to Beyonce's hit, and including solfege, would be to our benefit then we would solve the problem of our boring mentor group.

She bought it. Two hours of filming and six hours of editting later and:



The best part is it's been on youtube for only five days and has 156 views. I've heard of three teachers in the music building showing it in their classes!