Ear Training: Identifying Harmonic Patterns in Chord Progressions | I, IV, V | Berklee

In this video, Berklee Online instructor Gaye Tolan Hatfield introduces you to some beginner ear training techniques to help you identify melodic patterns. She details how to pick out chords like the I, IV, and V by listening for a dominant cadence and/or a subdominant cadence, the latter of which is known as a plagal cadence. She also points to a few songs like “Here Comes the Bride,” “Louie Louie” and “Wild Thing,” which are helpful benchmarks for identifying chords in a progression.

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.

About Berklee Online:
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Ear Training | Chord Progressions | I, IV, V | Harmonic Patterns | Gaye Tolan Hatfield | Cadences | Plagal Cadence | Dominant Cadence | Subdominant Cadence | Berklee Online | Berklee College of Music

[JBrooksNYS]

These are the kind of music theory lessons I need. Because I know enough to understand what she is talking about and yet still learn something new.

[chaddukes]

It’s a simple concept. But, I’ve never thought of the chords in terms of solfege and there relationship back to “do.”. Hearing it explained in that way instantly made the individual chord tones sound more recognizable to me. Thanks.

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[orangevst]

I hate it when people call SI, TI or SOL, SO, it sounds so stupid. Oh now let’s call the Suspended, SUS.