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Harmonic Ear Training

Matt Marvuglio (Actor), Roberta Radley (Actor), Craig Reed (Director, Producer) Rated:
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4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
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Genre Special Interests, Music Video & Concerts
Format Color, NTSC, Closed-captioned, Multiple Formats
Contributor Roberta Radley, Matt Marvuglio, Craig Reed
Language English
Number Of Discs 1
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An excellent workshop from the assistant chair of the Ear Training Department at the prestigious Berklee College of Music, this DVD is a vital intro to the topic for songwriters and performers looking to improve their listening skills and become better musicians. You'll learn to: recognize chord progressions quickly and confidently, and incorporate them into your writing and performing, listen to music more analytically, and apply this knowledge to all of your projects.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 5.75 x 0.53 inches; 3 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 50448039
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Craig Reed
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, NTSC, Closed-captioned, Multiple Formats
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ June 22, 2004
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Matt Marvuglio, Roberta Radley
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Craig Reed
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Berklee Press
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00029RRHS
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 29 ratings

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Jason Sioco
5.0 out of 5 stars Why did people rate this DVD as bad?
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2015
I have purchased a lot of bad ear training products, where my money is wasted. THIS DVD IS NOT ONE OF THEM!!! In fact, the methods here are helpful in helping you figure out chord progressions and chord voicings by singing and internalisation.

I am not oblivious to what Roberta Radley is discussing. I could have studied at Berklee. I go to York University and Secondary Dominants are for babies.

I don't understand why people would rate this as one star. I am someone, who is determined to develop my ear. I scourged every course, dvd, books, software etc. Looking for that "Holy Grail" of Ear Training. Well, in my search, I found some good ones and this DVD is one of them!

Highly Recommended.
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Brian S.
5.0 out of 5 stars These techniques really work!
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2006
The aim of this Berklee Workshop DVD is to help students recognize chord progressions. There has been a scarcity of material in this area of ear training and this DVD helps fill that gap very nicely.

Berklee instructor Roberta Radley discusses how students can take a logical and analytical approach to breaking down the hearing process by listening for one element at a time such as the bassline, the chord's third, or whether the chord sounds "in key' or not. By applying these processes individually and combining them with theoretical knowledge the student can determine the chord progression. Radley does a great job of explaining and providing suitable examples.

The second half of the DVD consists of listening exercises of increasing complexity played on piano followed by the answers (I did notice one error in the answers).

Radley doesn't pretend these skills can be learned by watching the DVD a few times and in fact says right at the beginning that it takes a very long time. Also basic ear training and music theory is required before starting harmonic ear training.

This DVD is a very good investment for anybody wanting to learn how to recognize chord progressions, just expect to invest a lot more in time.
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Jeremy King
5.0 out of 5 stars I Can Hear!
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2005
Before watching this DVD I thought I was a lost cause. My ability to recognize chord progressions was non-existent. However, after just a few minutes of watching this DVD I was able to use different techniques that made hearing the music so much easier. I am able to analyze the music as I listen to it and am now able to play more difficult and challenging pieces. I would definitely recommend this this DVD to anyone who wants to hear their music in a new way.
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dante
1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of money
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2007
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I threw this dvd out after one watch, Berkeley should be embarrassed. A five minute lesson basically with some very basic theory. Here is the entire dvd: Listen for the bass note in the chord and try to figure it out from there.
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Educated Person of interest
2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2014
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Not what i expected
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Mr. C. Rhucroft
1.0 out of 5 stars Too many presumptions, too little explanations and material
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2005
please excuse lack of punctuation but i have a multiple fracture of left collar bone at the moment (left-handed as well)

there is a 5 minute introductory section on the DVD which seems to focus exclusively on how the students (presumably of berkelee school ) already have significant knowledge of theory ,secondary dominant harmony, many hours of melodic and rhythmic dictation experience etc. trouble is it's me that bought the dvd...i am not "the sudents"! i was not aware that this was supposed to be for in-house use only.

the core presentation is only about 25 minutes . i frankly found elements of this perplexing. the purpose of ear training is to analyse music by ear, either live or recordings, therefore usually in real time. however having suggested that identification of the tonic is the first element (fair enough) she proceeds to play a tonic chord before playing at the keyboard the example piece to be identified ! and totally misses any discussion of how to identify the tonic in the normal scenario where it is not first delivered on a plate..any methods, difficulties or key ambiguities that might come into play etc are not discussed. try bruce arnold's key note recognition book and you may find that finding the tonic is not such a piece of cake as is suggested here.

next step is to extract the bass line formed by the harmony...again this presents no difficulty since she sight reads it ! the example is not replayed and an attempt made to extract the bassline from this hearing, with discussion of how to do this,..she just plays it from the page!

next step is to hear the bassline as a tonal melody using solfege. again this is an acquired skill in itself but it is more or less assumed that you, the presumably Berkelee student of the introduction, can already do it. in fact there is no actual explanation of solfege other than the mention of do,re, mi ..certainly no ti,li,say etc.

the following chapters may be of use if you can already do the stuff above and the theory it was assumed you already knew, but with a total length of about 10-15 minutes or so this seems to be in contradiction with a question from the introduction re. how long it takes to learn this stuff to which the answer was 'i hope you are not doing anything else for the rest of the week'. the emphasis is more on inferring and guessing chords from theoretical presumptions rather than just plain hearing them ..perhap this better represents the reality of things but if you where hoping this dvd had the magic answer to that one then look elsewhere.

especially if you are,like me, not already a college level etc music student with aural skills falling just short of hearing chord progressions i would forget this in favour of working with bruce arnold's books, gottschalk/kloeckner 'functional hearing' etc. the dvd visual format is not exploited here and the short duration and lack of in-depth discussion/explanation makes most ear-training book/audio systems preferable to this to my mind
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Steven Kao
1.0 out of 5 stars Very disappointed by the amount of content in this video
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2017
Very disappointed by the amount of content in this video, totally not worth the value. The video is only 30 min in length, which covers a very trivial basic, and you can actually find the same video on YouTube.
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Roderico
1.0 out of 5 stars very, very weak
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2009
I agree with the one star reviews already posted. I'm a performing musician looking to improve already decent skills and this video was completely useless to me. I can't imagine it would be any more useful to any one with less experience. I was very disappointed in that there were almost no exercises provided and on the whole DVD only ONE musical example!! How can Berklee release an ear training DVD with only ONE MUSICAL EXAMPLE????

I could go on and on with other things wrong with this, but there's no need. Just don't bother with this DVD.
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Gilmar Lima
5.0 out of 5 stars Ótimo
Reviewed in Brazil on July 4, 2022
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Conforme esperado.
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Jimw
5.0 out of 5 stars Seems good
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 23, 2023
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Seems good so far still working at it
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