Are you tone deaf?

[Nutritious]

Found this pretty cool test you can take to determine your ability to perceive differences in tone and rhythm:

http://www.delosis.com/listening/

It's part of a study by the University of Newcastle upon Tyne to figure out how many people of the general population have amusia (tone deafness). I would think it would have a big impact on someone's ability to perceive music for remixing as well.

Anyway, they say it takes about 8 minutes for each of the two tests. I just finished taking them and scored 29 out of 30 on both of them. It's a little tiring though, because you have to stay focused throughout.

So, how'd you guys do?

[Beoulve]

Apparently I'm not tone deaf as I got a perfect score on both.

[zircon]

I've taken things like this before. It's a stupid test and really has nothing to do with tone deafness. It's more about your short term ability to remember a musical phrase. Obviously if you are tone deaf you won't be able to do it, but that doesn't mean you'll be able to do it well if you AREN'T tone deaf. It's flawed. Actual tone deaf people will simply have trouble differentiating between two notes right next to eachother. I have a tone deaf classmate who had an incredibly hard time singing a simple major scale, and found it very difficult to determine intervals (a skill that is normally pretty easy to acquire.)

[Least100Seraphs]

Yeah, I'd have to agree with zircon. The fact that you can only listen to to each pair once makes it as much a short-term memory test as a tone-deafness test. I get the feeling that if I knew musical notation (as in, I could hear a tune and say "that's a, b, b, g, f flat, c flat, d sharp") that I'd do better on the test - which to me only reinforces the idea of it being a memory test.

[DrumUltimA]

yeah, i remember a test similar to this one--except i think it was better because is dealt with timbrel changes as well. This one had one sound and definitely had less than 30 examples it was using... after a while i just started memorizing them

[prophetik]

Yeah, I'd have to agree with zircon. The fact that you can only listen to to each pair once makes it as much a short-term memory test as a tone-deafness test. I get the feeling that if I knew musical notation (as in, I could hear a tune and say "that's a, b, b, g, f flat, c flat, d sharp") that I'd do better on the test - which to me only reinforces the idea of it being a memory test.

f flat lol

[Moseph]

f flat lol

??

C-flat major (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_flat_major) has an f-flat in it.

[prophetik]

no shit, sherlock. i just think that it's funny that in naming random notes that he managed to get the most unused note in the musical inventory in there. seriously, it's even less used than some of the double-sharp notes.

[Mr. Bottle Rocket]

meh...29&28

not as bad as i thought.

[Imagist]

30 and 29, but I didn't pay attention to one halfway through on the second test.

[Conan The Politician]

I actually found myself second-guessing what I heard, so I'd have to agree on this being a memory-retention exercise over any auditory diagnostic testing.

[kitty]

I think this test is filled with lulz: 21 and 15.