Are you Musical?

[iancollett6]

Has anyone taken this online tone test?

https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/tunetest/Pages/Default.aspx

[j_menz]

You correctly identified 26 tunes (out of 26) on the Distorted Tunes Test. Congratulations! You have a fine sense of pitch.

 

Not sure that having a less than truly dreadful relative pitch is quite the same as being musical, though.

[iancollett6]

You correctly identified 26 tunes (out of 26) on the Distorted Tunes Test. Congratulations! You have a fine sense of pitch.

 

Not sure that having a less than truly dreadful relative pitch is quite the same as being musical, though.

You got 26 as well!!  Just when I was comparing myself to Bach.

[j_menz]

You got 26 as well!!  Just when I was comparing myself to Bach.

LOL. I suspect most people around here will get 26. It's not very hard with a little basic training.

[faulty_damper]

Yay! 26/26.  I'm pretty proud of myself now.  I'll have a lollipop.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

I got a 0.

[dima_76557]

If anyone wants to try, I think this test has a lot more to do with musicality than the one offered in the OP: https://jakemandell.com/tonedeaf/

[outin]

If anyone wants to try, I think this test has a lot more to do with musicality than the one offered in the OP: https://jakemandell.com/tonedeaf/

Was more like a memory test to me and the sounds were horrible on the computer, gave me a headache...so occasionally got tired to properly listen and trying to remember and just guessed...still got 75% right. Some amusing questions they have about menstruation there 

[outin]

Has anyone taken this online tone test?

https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/tunetest/Pages/Default.aspx

I didn't recognize all of these "well known tunes" and again had to do some guessing. I've probaby listened to too much atonal music lately, got only on 24 right...
These midis made my headace even worse...no menstrual cycle questions this time though...

[dima_76557]

Was more like a memory test to me and the sounds were horrible on the computer, gave me a headache...so occasionally got tired to properly listen and trying to remember and just guessed...still got 75% right. Some amusing questions they have about menstruation there  

Oh? You should have indicated you were male, probably. I didn't get any impertinent questions. Memory is, of course, very important in musical performance. Although my score wasn't bad at all if you have to believe the makers (most likely dumb luck rather than wisdom on my part), I was a bit disappointed anyway.

[outin]

Oh? You should have indicated you were male, probably. I didn't get any impertinent questions.

I wouldn't cheat, after all the guy seems to be seriously studying the subject...so I answered everything

[dima_76557]

Some more tests by the same person:
https://tonometric.com/rhythmdeaf/
This test will play a series of two rhythmical phrases and ask you if they are the same or different. Unlike the similar tonedeaf test above, however, the differences between the phrases are only rhythmical.

https://tonometric.com/adaptivepitch/
This adaptive pitch test will play a series of two short tones and ask you if the second tone is higher or lower than the first tone. This test measures your pitch perception abilities by adapting to your responses: The better you are, the closer and closer the stimuli will become. As you advance in the test, it may sound as if the two tones are identical. This is never the case: they will always be a different pitch, even if that difference is imperceptible.

https://jakemandell.com/amvi/
Can you hear shapes? Skilled at visual learning? Measure your musical-visual intelligence online. This is a logic test that attempts to measure one's ability to correlate musical phrases with abstract shapes and symbols. Tip: you may want to take this one twice. As soon as you get a feel for what the shapes and symbols represent, you'll do much better.

[ranniks]

You correctly identified 22 tunes (out of 26) on the Distorted Tunes Test. Congratulations! You have a fine sense of pitch.

Thank you for taking the Distorted Tunes Test.

I'm happy. I was ready for a score of around 10, but apparently I didn't do too bad. Cheers.

[lucianeldred]

Got a 26/26 as well. I'd like to see a distorted atonal tunes test. Now that would be impressive to score 100 on.

[quantum]

26, although I wasn't familiar with all the tunes.

Most of those examples used tunes with distinctive rhythmic signatures.  Since this is a test that focuses on pitch, I'm wondering how much the rhythmic identity of a tune assists or distracts from pitch identification.  Is one more or less able to identify wrong pitches due to their specific placement within metre?  What would happen if this test were to use tunes with less variability in changing note durations.  Eg: hymn tunes primarily made up of quarter and half notes? 


The "wrong" tunes in that test also tended to use similar methods of modifying that tune: a rough modulation to a remote key, whimsical intervalic jumps in primarily scale-tone based tune (tritones, etc.), rough modulation in the center of the excerpt with return to the home key at the cadence.  What would happen if one were to use more musically stable modifications, such as changing the modality of the entire excerpt?  Eg: major tune played in minor, minor tune played in lydian mode, major tune played in an octactonic mode. 

[ted]

24, but I didn't know some of them and just guessed. I quite liked some of the wrong ones.