Harmonic Hearing for Macintosh About the Program Harmonic Hearing 1.1 is an extensive harmonic ear training package designed for individual development of chord recognition. Developed by Scott McCormick, Professor in the Harmony Department at the Berklee College of Music, Harmonic Hearing is a hands-on musical training tool which encourages exploratory learning, the most effective form of learning. Harmonic Hearing can be used at home by a single student, or as a supplemental work tool for classroom instruction. It offers a choice of 139 musical chord progressions which are viewed on the computer screen, and which may be listened to using any MIDI-compatible keyboard or playback device.
Students are free to listen to the musical examples as many times as they like.
Harmonic Hearing uses a standard harmonic dictation method for first identifying the bass note and then the chord quality. The melody and chords may be muted at the user's option, so that the bass notes are more easily identified. The student uses the mouse or cursor keys to move bass notes up or down on the staff until the notation matches what is heard in the original example. At any time the student may choose to hear either the correct answer or the answer they are creating on the screen. Next the student listens to the chords combined with the bass.