YouTube helps everything

Today in my Music Theory course, we stepped into the treacherous waters of Sight-singing. Sight-singing is essential to the study of Music Theory, and often the most feared portion of the AP exam. (A good AP Score = College Credit. Sometimes.)

Before we began our sight-singing, I showed two Videos. The first one, while silly, actually is a good way to be introduced to the idea of calling certain Scale Degrees by syllabic names (Do=1; Re=2 etc). I told the kids that since "Sound of Music" is based on a true story, surely after hearing the song they would be able to sight sing most a-ny-thing.


Then, before we began singing, I showed this one. I love this video, in fact, I think I may have posted it once before. Bo*bb%y McFEr(rin is one of my favorite YouTube searches, and this video is a big reason why. His demonstration shows how instinctive certain pitch relations are. (He constructs the pentatonic scale, getting an entire audience to sing accurately with only a small amount of prompting, but more instinct than anything else.)

Enjoy: