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Are you tone deaf?

Post by MasteR » Fri Nov 10, 2006 4:19 pm

http://www.jakemandell.com/tonedeaf/

A little test I saw on Digg to see if you are tone deaf.



I got 80.6% on my try.
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Post by dmpotter » Fri Nov 10, 2006 4:28 pm

86.1% on my first try, although I wasn't really paying too much attention to some of them.
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Post by Mydnyte » Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:39 pm

94.4% here, but then again it had BETTER be up there, given all the musical stuff I do.
Really cool find MasteR, thanks!
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Post by Rorschach » Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:40 pm

It would explain an awful lot...
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Post by Killer-Rabbit » Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:43 pm

80.6% as well
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Post by Deacon » Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:48 pm

I got about a 75%, but I wasn't sure how detailed they were going with some of the phrasing, especially the long ones.
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Post by AzraeL » Fri Nov 10, 2006 7:17 pm

93.8%, which I'm quite happy with. I found a lot of this stuff to be more memory testing that music testing..
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Post by Deacon » Fri Nov 10, 2006 7:25 pm

I agree. In fact, that was the most frustrating part was that they'd play this relatively long and complex phrase, then pause for a few seconds, and then play it again, and I don't know if I was really supposed to pick out one different note in the whole thing, and if so, just in the melody line or in the harmonies as well, etc...
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Post by kaiju01 » Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:06 pm

I got 75% too.
I know this is designed by a guy coming from a music and neuroimaging lab, but this test really seems to test your auditory memory far more than it does differences in pitch, relative pitch that is. That is what tone deafness is. The test is of course doing this, but I found myself focusing all my attention on memorizing (even humming) the first lick, then losing it during the second sample in the longer runs.

I don't want to sound bitter with my score. :P It was nifty. I just feel that this test is poorly designed to test one's ability at distinguishing relative pitch. It's not the only variable in the experiment. I know my memory is shit; my ear isn't so bad.
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Post by Deacon » Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:45 pm

Indeed. In fact, I don't think I heard but one or two instances where there was a pitch problem. In general they sounded an awful lot like a couple of bars in a song, the natural progression of a melody, still in key and on-pitch.
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Post by gravity » Fri Nov 10, 2006 9:00 pm

The link says that it doesn't exist half the time, and error 503 the other half. :|
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Post by Negative Polarity » Fri Nov 10, 2006 9:09 pm

[quote="gravity";p="691303"]The link says that it doesn't exist half the time, and error 503 the other half. :|[/quote]
Ditto for me. I think it's dead, Jim.
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Re: Are you tone deaf?

Post by AzraeL » Sat Nov 11, 2006 5:50 am

How about This
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Post by jimkatai » Sat Nov 11, 2006 6:58 am

Sorry no posts matched your criteria Az
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Post by Metzgirl » Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:03 pm

Finally working again.

I only got 83.3% correct. If you listen to their rating system, I have great musical abilities. ye haw.
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