Comments on: Are You Tone Deaf?

By: Spenser

Spenser — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:04:54 +0000

Most of the people here posted 80+ percent. Since I’m a musician, I got 95% with no headphones!!! w00t!

By: sporkk

sporkk — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:09:03 +0000

wow I’m really terrible! 58.3%

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:54:13 +0000

I have had no musical training and I got 91.7% correct.

By: Pointy-Hatted Geek

Pointy-Hatted Geek — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:15:52 +0000

72.2%, and 2.25 on the pitch thing.

I feel below average now, having seen the above scores. :(

By: sfs

sfs — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:56:31 +0000

91.7%. I have no formal training in music, but I am a soundguy. I’m with Andrew – testing perception of chord changes, especially subtle ones, would be very interesting.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:14:58 +0000

86.1%, but I suspect that I incorrectly identified a few as different because I was actively trying to pick out the differences. I found it fairly easy overall, and it seems like they could make it harder by subtly changing the chords instead of individual notes- Em7 instead of Em, throw in some inverted chords, that sort of thing.

By: greg

greg — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:56:26 +0000

77.8% I’ve only taken a few Theory classes in high school.

By: Linda Steuer

Linda Steuer — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:08:19 +0000

wow cool! i got an 83% without my adderall & never had any music lessons in my life.

By: greenstrawberries

greenstrawberries — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:13:56 +0000

The test for tonedeafness won’t load for me, but I took the other two, and I have to agree with Allison about the pitch perception test. I have been playing the flute for 12 years, and have had numerous teachers tell me that I have perfect pitch, but I scored average on the test. I’ve been able to tune instruments (or tell if they are out of tune) for years, without anyone ever teaching me. If it’s out of tune, it just sounds wrong to me. I don’t think that that test tests for perfect pitch, and I don’t know that it was supposed to.

By: AD

AD — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:33:30 +0000

80.6 but I was distracted by some IMs.