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- lib24, on 10/12/2007, -10/+139Beethoven would fail.
- mage1129, on 10/12/2007, -6/+106@lib24
Of course Beethoven would fail, he is dead. - plarp, on 10/12/2007, -5/+79Service Temporarily Unavailable
i must be tone deaf - LR2_, on 10/12/2007, -2/+71I got a hold of the swf and uploaded it to sendspace. You can find it here. http://www.sendspace.com/file/ktfu25
I tried to put it on imageshack but they have a 1.5mb maximum. Also, sorry for hijacking this comment.
.enjoy. - SupaFupa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+59 i got 86.1%. If anything, Id say its more of a memory test than a musical ability test.
- JoeCool1986, on 10/12/2007, -2/+59I'm a music major and this test seems to only show if you're actually tone deaf, in other words, you REALLY can't tell between two pitches at all. And I think actually only about 1% of the population cannot match pitch at all. If you can match pitch (i.e. 99% of the people taking this test on here most likely), this is more of a memory/pattern test than anything...
- weprin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+45Ha! I scored 503. Oh... wait...
- Instrumental, on 10/12/2007, -3/+47you're = you are
- troberts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31Is one of the questions "Are you Kevin Federline?"
- aquax, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32@MusicalGenius
I wouldn't go around calling myself a "musical genius" if my big claim to fame was a Bose system. Any moderate audiophile knows that Bose is mostly hype, and very little substance. - kristopher, on 10/12/2007, -9/+29http://www.duggmirror.com
You were only one letter off. - PhantomBantam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Perhaps it would have been understood if the submitter used "u r" instead. Priceless.
- TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15you can't change the article title...
- narduk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I believe the title to be grammatically correct.
- lightyear, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15@SkeletaLlama
No. The distortions would affect both samples equally. - DJNewStyle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Here's a better test:
Step 1: Play some house music.
If you find that you enjoy the audio, congratulations: you are tone deaf. - pardonmedoug, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14How Bad Memes are Spread, Vol. I
Thanks for being the first entry! - jhendrix86, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Pitch is natural my man...yes you can do ear training, but everything is natural. If you're naturally tone deaf, you're mostly screwed. So it doesn't matter if you've never had training.
- jayhawk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1130 pairs? come on, we have lives to live here.
- IcerC, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12I got 75 and I am horrible with keeping a tune.. this is really different, this is just compare and contrasting.
Here is the swf.
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v300/IcerC/?action=view¤t=OnlineScreen.swf&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch1 - dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1280.6% here. I play guitar and used to play piano.
"Pitch is natural my man...yes you can do ear training, but everything is natural. If you're naturally tone deaf, you're mostly screwed. So it doesn't matter if you've never had training."
Not true. Ask any singing instructor, and they'll tell you that you can teach *anyone* to sing well. There's no reason to be condemned to being "naturally tone deaf." - apsudraconis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I think the test is just crap at describing what it means by "excellent musical abilities". I think this is supposed to be more about your ear's keenness for telling apart musical tones than describing your ability to produce them.
- ivachen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8LOL duggmirror cached the down site.
- dizzydigg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+986.1 - I'm a music teacher....
- KruseyJohn, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12You don't have perfect pitch
- t0ken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I've met some people that can tell you what note a car door makes when it slams, its nuts (of course I wouldn't know if he was just making it up)... :|
- kristopher, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8http://www.jakemandell.com.nyud.net:8080/tonedeaf/
Works, perhaps a bit slow but works. - Durinthal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Perfect pitch can be both a blessing and a curse.. I like to throw off my friends that have it by going microtones sharp or flat on specific pitches.
- JJanetC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I agree. I only got 77.6% but I can read and play music on the trombone quite well. I could never memorize though... oh well.
- racazip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Well, that one seems dead by all accounts... here's something similar. :)
http://www.delosis.com/listening/measure.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Well it got changed somehow.
- Capta1nA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I go to music school and i got a 75.5%. I've always had problems in ear training when they use annoying sounds from Reason. I think everyone would score better with just sine waves or a piano.
- Soniti, on 10/12/2007, -4/+880.6 as well-
Interesting test. I suck at music, but wish I could play the guitar.. I have one, and don't pick it up because I'm self conscious lol..
~Soniti - Thater, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7damn, I got 88.9% So close to world-class musical abilities! I suppose it's not important that I can't really play any musical instruments.
- LEDDY, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6there is no such thing as "tone deaf"
- pbryanw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+430/30 I can't believe it - I'm usually rubbish at surveys I find on Digg. The only way I can explain it is that I played guitar for three years and that may have helped.
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+394.4
I couldn't play an instrument if my life depended on it. - SnowBladerX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I got 27 out of 30 right, or 90% on this one since the other link is down, I have very little musical experience too, but I do listen to ALOT of music, not sure if that makes a difference.
- InternetUser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+329/30 and an invite. 91.6% on the main one. too easy! oh and I make music in my spare time :)
- shitthisfook, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I am one of the few people here to get a 91 on the tonedeaf test and a 28/30 on the delosi test (below). But I don't think I have perfect pitch... I just happen to make music a lot. Like another poster said, this does come off as more of a memory test than a tone test.
- rockorager, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@duality
If you had perfect pitch you wouldn't have to try to visualize the notes on the piano...you would just know what they were...you probably have near-perfect relative pitch, like Eddie Van Halen - fohf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+383.3 for me too... I thought i was better than that.
- milye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3When I was elementary school, in order to be in band, we had take a test by listening to the band teacher play one note and then comparing it with the second note. We were supposed to rate if it was the same, higher, or lower. I think that is probably more "scientific" than playing one melody and comparing it to the next because you can hear discord, or the part in the melody that makes you cringe, in the second one.
Also, in the delosis test, they should have shuffled the order of which melody sounded "right" and which melody sounded "wrong." - Renork, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Did either of you get an invite for further research?
Dear Daniel xxxxx
We are delighted to say that over 45,000 people have taken the Musical Listening Test that was first posted on the BBC website. Thank you very much for your participation - you scored 28 out of 30.
We have now selected a group of you, across the whole range of scores, to participate in the next stage of the research.
Followed by information for a log in. - foshizol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I tried the Delois website. I scored 28 out of 30, which is weird for me. I've been playing guitar for 22 years, and I've never been able to pick up anything by ear, it's kind of a bummer because it kept me out of bands even though I used to be pretty good, everything I've learned on guitar someone taught me or, it was from reading tabs. I thought I would score a lot lower.
How reliable are these tests? - barius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I managed 29/30, but I've played the piano since I was 5.
I still didn't get an offer to help in their research :( - Tbab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I got 30/30, must be all that progressive metal I listen to. ^_^
But seriously, all you have to do is listen for a discordant note in the second tune of each pair to tell if they're different. I found that usually there is a note that just doesn't sound "right," maybe it doesn't harmonize? I don't know what it is technically, but it sounds funky. Listen for that and you're golden, try not to depend so much on memory. - shadus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The dog howls when I sing, do I *really* need this test? :P
- DownIsTheNewUp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+319 out of 30...that can't be good.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i got 29 out of 30 on that delosis one
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