Ear Training: Singing the Roots of Chords to Recognize Progressions | Berklee Online

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In this video, Berklee Online instructor Gaye Tolan Hatfield introduces you to some beginner ear training techniques to help you identify chord progressions. She explains that picking simple three-chord or four-chord songs and singing the root note of each chord as it passes can help develop your ear to recognize chord progressions. She uses the song “Under the Boardwalk” by the Drifters as an example of this, singing the root notes in solfege as she plays the song.

About Gaye Tolan Hatfield:
Gaye Tolan Hatfield is a professor in the of Berklee College of Music’s Ear Training department. She has also taught in the Harmony, Voice, and Ensemble departments. She co-wrote and teaches the Berklee Online courses Ear Training 2 and Music Foundations. Her work outside of the college includes writing, arranging, transcribing, and performing locally as a vocalist, pianist, and flutist. She has assisted orchestrators for the Boston Pops, and in the summer of 2013, wrote a choral arrangement that was performed at the Pops 4th of July concert.

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