Are you tone deaf?

I have a musical background and got a 72! I think it was a memory problem rather than a tone problem

May want to fix the link - it goes nowhere for me.  But you can google it and find it.

No, but I do know how to post a linkie that works ... sometimes.

http://www.jakemandell.com/tonedeaf/OnlineScreen450.swf

75% is quite impressive for no musical background ... although there did seem to be a lot of licks that were in the low-register wind instrument category.

91.7%

but I did think I scored one higher. So I'm not as NOT tone deaf as I think I am.

It's an interesting study, although I think those WITH musical training are more likely to take it (I'd like to see grouped scores by years of training they asked for)

I got an 83.3%.  I'm a scientist but I've got a pretty good ear.  I don't read music well, but after hearing a song 1-2 times I can quickly do the harmony and sometimes even get going in the melody if it is not too terribly difficult. (I'm a baritone so we always got the crappy parts).

I will agree that it was a hard test.  I think 2 things made is a bit difficult.  1. the new sound started IMMEDIATELY after hitting the button, so you had to listen quickly.  2. I don't know if they said it but they really should recommend doing it at a time when there are NO distractions.  I'm in my cube and had to close my eyes and really concentrate.

Still, all in a all, a pretty cool test.

I started the test but wasn't going to sit through 36 of those to learn what I already know; I have poor short term memory, and I while not completely tone deaf, I am tonally  impaired.

Interesting. If I copy and paste it works but the direct link does not.

I don't know why, exactly, but cantstopraffing.

Too long for me to sit through.

But having a musical background I know that I have "relative pitch." My sister has "perfect pitch" - was always a fun trick to tell her to sing a specific note and test it with the piano. Perfect every time.

I got 80.6.  Other than a year or two of piano lessons when I was a little kid, no musical training...

Some observations of the ones I got wrong.  I think out of the 5 or 6 I got wrong, Only once did I say "same" when they were different.  It always seemed obvious when they were different.

However, The rest I said were "different" when they were actually the same.  I wonder why I thought I heard something different?  Maybe I was expecting them to be different so always doubted myself.  I know on half the ones I got wrong, I was hesitant about the answer, but trusted my gut.

Good news (I guess) is the ones I got wrong, were the lowest scoring ones on the test.  So I'm not alone.  In fact, in the majority of getting them wrong!

83.3%......no musical background but I've been married for 20 years so I figure that helped differentiate tones.

63.9% while sitting at my desk at work. Want to try this at home with headphones and no distractions.

For the record, I'm not tone deaf, I'm ignoring you.

Originally posted by Rollergirl

Originally posted by Rollergirl 91,7% I am receiving musical training but am mostly a drummer (who said drummers were tone deaf??!) so I don't know if it helps. Love music (making, listening), couldn't live without it

but then on the other end I did really bad on this (only better than 28% of people doing the test) http://musicianbrain.com/pitchtest.go figure. maybe drummers ARE tone deaf after all

Not bad for old ears.

Thank you for taking our Pitch Discrimination Test at http://musicianbrain.com/pitchtestAt 500 Hz you can reliably hear pitch differences of 1.9375 Hz, which means you did better than approximately 84.5% of people who took our test!