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Strictly speaking harmony is any two or more different notes playing simultaneously. These days people mostly mean vocal harmony but harmonic structure and chord progression are pretty much the same thing.
Hey I'm not trying to pick an argument here at all, and when he's talking about transcribing it, I don't personally think you need to write it down. I think it's better if you don't. The point of the exercise to me is to learn those sounds as sounds, instead of concepts (or worse. . . rules).
The book can definitely give you a head start, but it can also be just as much of a setback if it prevents someone from learning by experience (by ear for music). Imagine someone getting a book on the D game and thinking they are ready to run the block. I'm not saying anyone is going to do that, just that IMO anyone would do well to spend 50-100 times more time doing it by ear, then they spend reading about it.
But everyone has to find their own path. . .I've read most of the books here, and they are all good, just saying that there is no substitute for learning music as well, music. And after all the books I've read, I find myself going back and doing it that way anyway. That's just my experience though, not trying to pick a fight at all, just saying that I've been down both roads and IME it can work to have street smarts without book smarts but not so much the other way around (of course both is even better. . . ).
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