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How much ear training is required to identify chords and their progressions, without perfect pitch and reading any scores?

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I'm impressed by Kevin Wang's ability to identify chords aurally. He graduated with a BM in Piano Performance from the Rochester School of Music in 2016. I'm assuming that

  1. he has never seen the score for any song that he's reviewing, but I can't verify this. I know that he could hoodwink us by covertly studying the score, before appearing in these YouTube videos.

  2. he doesn't have absolute pitch. I suspect he does, but I want to ask this question for those who lack absolute pitch.

Here are some examples from different Youtube videos featuring him.

1:27 B minor is a rare key for Kpop, so nice.

13:43 B flat major 7 to E major, without transition. The tritone, guys.

14:00 Lil flat 6.

How a/typical are such identifications of chord progressions? Can all competent B.Mus. graduates accomplish this? If not, how much ear or musical education is required?

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