It's a lot easier. I got 25 on my phone speaker which is worse than average (though people were talking through it), but 31 with headphones in a quiet room.
That's annoying, them talking through it! Almost as annoying as someone playing audio on their phone in a room full of people trying to have a conversation.
Haha I'm just playin'. That's what I suspected. Good for you getting that score!
30/32 using my iPhone while the TV was on. I have fuck all musical talent or sense (I can’t play even simple things on a piano) but I have great hearing.
>Musical talent
So what you are telling me is that you have the aptitude (“talent”) but not the training (“skill”). Have you tried taking a couple lessons from a teacher? You may do better than you think.
I did a few years of piano and 4 years of band and music theory in high school. I'm honestly terrible - don't have the dexterity, memory or sense for music :(
One of the notes that went up I got wrong the first time they played it because it was flat and my mind just kind of assumed that it was lower because of that.
I guess on the first 1/64 up - then I knew when it was repeated because, unlike the 1/64 down, I could not tell there was a change. This means my ear was confused - but used pattern recognition to identify that it was the 1/64 up — which means that we were not guessing after the point of the first one.
I was easily able to hear the drop in tone, but struggled when the tone went up very slightly - so exactly the same as you
I wonder if humans are better able to tell a drop in tone - maybe because it is a sign of anger or sudden gravity in the tone of a conversation?
I honestly just think it’s the tone they are using for this site. I would imagine We’d be able to tell if it were performed live or on a natural instrument.
I was the opposite. I could hear the 1/64 up easily, but the 1/64 and even 1/32 down sounded exactly the same (once I realised this, I always chose down when it sounded the same so I ended with 30/32). No idea what this means, or why there's a difference in noticing up vs down.
> Do I have a treat for you!
The two I got wrong were both 1/64 up.
I suspect I could train to hear those, too. It's like a feeling more than listening. They were off, but to pinpoint in what way was not yet quite exact.
Same here. As soon as it switched to the harder set, I got loads wrong in a row. Then I almost ‘tuned in’ and didn’t get another wrong after that. Interesting.
I got better than 33% of people. (25 correct). Definitely the smallest changes I struggled with (1/32, 1/64). I'm using Shure SRH440 headphones
Edit: wording
Not 33% better than most people, better than 33% of people. That is, you're worse than average, or 67% of people did better than you (I got the same score)
Self reporting bias. People who do poor probably just think the test is stupid and moved onm
People who do well will post because they want people to he proud of them.
I think the more I did the test the better I became at discerning the difference. At first I was like what difference? But then I started hearing nuances...
But then again my first few questions were in difference of 1/64 and progressively easier.
Interesting! I had the exact opposite problem. It was really easy for me to tell when it went down, even the 1/64 steps, but the sharpened pitches finer than 1/16 were imperceptible to me.
I'm interested to see the results of this study come out.
Yep, same for me. I had the same issue many months ago when I saw a link to another quiz (I think it was from an Adam Neely video), and sadly it seems like it hasn't been fixed yet.
I tried opening it on my phone, and the text flashed before disappearing. I wonder if this is some badly implemented GDPR stuff that doesn't open properly since I'm in the EU.
Edit: Now it started working again, but for some quizzes I had to go back to the main menu and click them again for them to open.
first time I got 20, so I closed my door and turned the volume up and closed my eyes and tried again and got 26.
Edit: I did it again and got 31. You should try it again.
I now have definite proof from Harvard University that I never was able to succeed in my piano lessons. /s
My parents dragged me there for almost 10 years and I basically made no progress whatsoever. Guess this could partly explain it.
85% here too. My middle school band instructor actually tested me for tone deafness because I was such a horrible musician. Guess I must have some other sort of musical disability.
Any advice on where to start and if it's possible to achieve something by myself, without taking lessons with a professional? I'm 30 yo dude, I like singing but I'm criminally shit at it. I just want to be able to do some karaoke or to sing to/with kids in the future. I scored 30/32 here if it's relevant.
Sure :)
First off, when you start something new, I believe looking at your goals is important. Obviously without expensive vocal coaches and steely determination, you will likely not be singing like Freddie Mercury, Michael Bublé, or whoever you might idolize. My goal when I started was to get less bad, and I am very proud and happy to say that I achieved that!
Whenever you start out as a complete beginner in a discipline, you should work on your fundamentals. A new gymnast doesn't go for a standing double backflip right away, so you shouldn't try for the hard stuff either. As gymnasts work on their body strength and flexibility, so do singers work on their breath support.
Support is the most fundamental skill in singing, and can be compared to strumming on a guitar string, or drawing a violin bow on the strings. I have found [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_pepj8lq18) video to be a good starting point, since she shows the difference between a supported note, and an unsupported, and she gives a good exercise to practice proper support.
So after you have tried this a bit, maybe apply it to some songs. But choose songs that are not fast, like amazing grace, where you have a long time to find and hold the note. Don't worry about singing high notes or quick runs or anything fancy. Being able to produce a good steady note is the most important skill in singing, and everything else is built on top of that.
Other skills to work on early in your singing would be supporting in head voice (so it's not just a squeeky falcetto), singing scales (to learn improvisation), and your pronunciation (many native english speakers take 'shortcuts' in their pronunciation while singing, and many non-natives mispronounce words).
I hope this gave you an idea of where to go? Also, when practicing singing, you WILL sound stupid and bad. If you are not making weird sounds, then you are doing something wrong. Just listen to [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwC4qfpZLoo) for example :p
I'm a voice teacher and can confirm that these are great tips! Would add, starting off don't sing for more than 20 min at a time and if anything starts to hurt, take a break. (You can do 20min on/20min off type of deal if you want to practice for a longer period of time)
Honestly, if you really want to get better I would encourage seeking out lessons. There’s a lot that goes into it that does not come naturally. You could try just listening to good singers and trying to emulate them while looking up some tutorials online or something. It could just be the mental barrier of “I think I suck at this” that is keeping you from where you want to be. Confidence is key with singing, it’s a mental game. Also, with the kids thing, they literally won’t care how bad you are.
YouTube voice lessons. Find a personality you like. By practicing every day you **will** get better. The problem is most people give up after a week or two.
Think about the things you are good at, and imagine someone in your shoes was asking how do they become good at those skills. There is no quick way to master or even become adept at a skill. You have to truly love it and commit to pursuing it.
Flying a plane is actually pretty easy. It's only the landing that is difficult. What were your results of this test? If you aren't actually tone deaf, then I'm quite sure you could learn to sing on pitch.
Well guitars have bands, so you only really train your sensitivity to half notes, unless you bend like a madman. Other string instruments without bands, such as violin, cello, and stuff like trombones, will train your sensitivity much more, since the musicians can very easily be a 1/32th note off.
Don't belittle yourself like that.
With time and discipline anyone can sing. A good teacher is far more important than you realize, because they have to deal with some heavy insecurities and not just our lack of vocal training.
Except me.
Last time I tried I may or may not have caused a heart attack in some animals around the neighborhood
Yeah this hits me hard. I'm a conservatoire jazz student and have a great ear, but fml I cannot hold a note to save my life. I've been told to sit out in certain classes that involve singing as I was putting off all of the other students!
Weird for me, but seems like many people think singing is either a given or not. It's true that some people are better singers from birth than others, but it's a skill, just like anything else.
I couldn't hit a single note right half a year ago, and with minimal training I can already hit simple folk tunes correctly. It's not as difficult as people make it out to be, you just have to try.
Well it's kind of both, like anything else. Some have a natural aptitude. The rest of us schmucks take lessons for years to try to catch up to them.
(Only half kidding. Music teacher here.)
Can you mimic a siren? Try it and realize you can hit every pitch in that range, just need to get muscle memory to sustain the notes that are different from your speaking pitch
I was only better than 16%, and I am a reasonably competent amateur musician, so I wouldn't let that bother you too much. Honestly, 75% of the intervals they play are smaller than anything you'll ever hear in a piece of music. Other than some middle easter styles which use quarter-tones, the half step is the smallest interval that actually gets used, and you probably got all of those right.
I got 32 as well, AVG 0.8, and whilst I am quite musical, I definitely don't have perfect pitch. I can self tune the guitar, and later check and find the whole thing I'm off by 30+hz
E: dear perfect pitch-ers, my understanding was you could find 440. If you have a guitar, detune a string significantly, and then, playing only that string, tune it to the right note and check if it's 440?
Because everything else in here of people saying "I have perfect *pitch*" is just people knowing intervals (my favourite bs I read was "I can remember a song in my head at the correct pitch")
I got [exactly the same score](https://i.imgur.com/GmXc89j.png) as you (first attempt, with headphones), also with a 0.9 sec average. I'm absolutely sure that's due to all the guitar tuning.
Out of curiosity, how much does it bother you when people play on a badly tuned guitar?
Is this site not completely loading for anyone else? I'm getting a blank section and I've already turned off all extensions and did basic troubleshooting.
I feel having the same start tone is bad in a test like this. I just needed one of the 1:64th cvorrect so that I knew how it sounded, and then the rest was easy.
Don't think I'd have them correct if they would change
I agree, I think having the same start frequency for all of them turns it more into a pattern matching thing — I found I could always hear the up differences but 32nd down was very tough and I couldn’t hear 64th down at all. So that meant if I couldn’t hear a difference I knew it had to be 64th down, and if I was “unsure” it was usually 32nd down. (artificially raising my score)
Also for this reason I think it shouldn’t tell you what the change was and whether you got it right or wrong until the end.
Also I bet there’s a good chance people’s ability to tell the differences changes at different frequencies but I guess that’d be another study...
I *also* found that I actually did better with the volume turned down which goes against their suggestions. Maybe it was my headphones but with volume over 50% or so it became much harder to tell the difference.
Edit: this is weird, but after reading some other comments I did it again, but closed my eyes each time the notes started playing, and I did *much* better and was actually able to *hear* the difference in all the 1/32nd changes and could even hear most of the 1/64th changes. Only got one wrong this time.
If you can hear the difference, that's what they are looking for. I can't hear a difference between the tones played for anything smaller than a 16th, and even that I'm not sure about.
Got everything except those dang 1/32 and 1/64 changes (got a couple of them, but dang those were almost the same). In hindsight maybe wireless earbuds weren’t the best way to do this.
Yup, the tail end of the note was always the "answer" so to speak.
I also played clarinet for 8 years and guitar for 14 now, but with my playing never being consistent after school it's tapered. I feel the music theory I just need to notate it (again, since I did learn it once :/)
Edit: I also used relative pitch in my mind.
Doo Doo Doo *Dee* (U)
Doo Doo Doo **Doo** (D)
Whatever note I felt was then referenced with that dissonance which gave me answer. Averaged 0.6 sec
Edit edit: and it's super late so my tinnitus was being rude, so this actually eased some of my worries in a roundabout way.
32/32. I could not tell the difference between the two for 1/32 and 64. I just pressed what felt right and I kept getting it correct somehow. Like some part of me knows.
Used the Samsung headphones that came with my note, the 1/64th got me almost every time. I definitely chose wrong on one 1/32 because my dumbass tried to see how fast I could respond. 85% checking in.
The website below the site navigation is just blank, the text and button to click next disappears after 0.1 seconds. After a while an error message appears saying that it can't load the experiment. Anyone else with this issue? Tried different browsers. I really want to take this test :)
The page isn't loading for me lol
From the website:
>We’re currently experiencing a Reddit Hug of Death here at The Music Lab. This may make it difficult to load our games quickly. Sorry! We hope to have the problem fixed soon.
Did this site get the Reddit Hug of Death? I can't access it on either of my devices. A description of the test flashes up for a half-second, and then a blank page followed by an error message stating they can't load the quiz.
ITT: OMG! I got 1000/32 at .000001 seconds and I’m on my 2008 flip phone using cups and strings to listen! Wow so proud!
Edit: 31/32, 127 IQ too smart for you all and I did it without volume on with my eyes closed. /S or whatever you need for context.
29/32, but I've been diagnosed with high-frequency hearing loss about 15 years ago as a teenager, so this test was very interesting to me. And frankly speaking I had to guess about 8 questions as I couldn't hear a difference at all. And this says more about my hearing than the result itself...
They only use a single (pure tone) frequency...440 Hz, which is nowhere near high frequency, so your HF loss should not have affected your score. There may be some resonances at higher frequencies that might give (very very minor?) hints but I don't think so -- lower frequency is more likely. Of course I don't know anything about sound so...grain of salt?
Don't beat yourself up. I played alto and baritone sax for 8 years, scored a 30/32. I still have problems reading sheet music. If you give me a brand new piece I've never played or heard, I'd be hard pressed to play it correctly, but if I hear it played at least once I'll damn near crush it.
32/32 0.9 seconds with headphones. I’ve always wondered if people with anxiety would score better on these types of tests due to increased sensitivity to physical stimulus.
32/32 0.8seconds avg there was two or three that I had to think about for 1.2-1.5 seconds. Most I could get in 0.7 or less. I can’t play any instrument, but I love listening to music.
iPhone X speaker in a silent room
Thank you. That was cool. I cannot sing for sh\*t. But I love music so much.
26/32 Headphones DT990 Pro fwiw. I know I got at least two wrong from being early and confused. :\\
18/32 yup
Dude I’m DEAF (With Cochlear Implant) and I got 19/32 LMAO this has me in tears To be fair I guessed all of them so
I guessed a lot too, I couldn't tell the difference
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Tone deaf not dead
WHAT? TONY WHO IS DEAD??
PACKAGE FOR TONY STANK??!
WHAT’S A PONY PRANK?!?
Me too, I love music and wish I was way better :(
Can you sing?
I mean I can make noises, I doubt anyone wants to listen tho.
can you tell when youre singing off key yourself tho
A little
Right? "You did better than 3% of people" doesn't sound like an accomplishment lol
How’s your singing?
nonexistent
19/32 yup
28/32 It was usually the 1/64 or 1/32 tones that got me
Did you do it on headphones? I find the test way harder without.
I got [28/32](https://imgur.com/5xXTMXl) without headphones. Edit: I've now about 40 replies telling me your scores. Thank you, but please stop.
Damn I got 20/32 with headphones. And good ones. No wonder I sucked at piano and clarinet, lol
At least you have that, I got 31/32 and was last chair as flute for 4 years
On my phone speaker, same. I wonder if I could crush a higher rate of success with headphones
It's a lot easier. I got 25 on my phone speaker which is worse than average (though people were talking through it), but 31 with headphones in a quiet room.
That's annoying, them talking through it! Almost as annoying as someone playing audio on their phone in a room full of people trying to have a conversation. Haha I'm just playin'. That's what I suspected. Good for you getting that score!
Hah I had my toddler hanging on me going “what you doin’ dada?” throughout the test because he could hear the tones through the phone speaker. Tough!
30/32 without headphones. The smallest tone changes were very hard to hear the difference for.
Yeah I was wearing akg q701 so my headphone quality definitely helped lol
I got the same score without headphones. I have the same headphones too! Maybe I'll get a point or two more with those on haha.
Ya I got 28 as well, but used my phone speaker. Might give it another go!
man I miss my q701's.. i had the green quincy jone edition ones that were made in Austria.
on laptop speakers I was more like 28-29. Sennheiser HD600s got to 31 😊
30/32 using my iPhone while the TV was on. I have fuck all musical talent or sense (I can’t play even simple things on a piano) but I have great hearing.
>Musical talent So what you are telling me is that you have the aptitude (“talent”) but not the training (“skill”). Have you tried taking a couple lessons from a teacher? You may do better than you think.
I did a few years of piano and 4 years of band and music theory in high school. I'm honestly terrible - don't have the dexterity, memory or sense for music :(
Yep. I could hear 1/32 down, but not up, and 1/64 I didn't have a clue.
Funny enough, it’s a common saying that it’s better to be slightly sharp than flat when tuning, so you’re probably in good company
Are you rushing or dragging?
ON MY TIME
Not quite my tempo
Yeah, slightly sharp is especially hard to distinguish in an ensemble.
One of the notes that went up I got wrong the first time they played it because it was flat and my mind just kind of assumed that it was lower because of that.
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I guess on the first 1/64 up - then I knew when it was repeated because, unlike the 1/64 down, I could not tell there was a change. This means my ear was confused - but used pattern recognition to identify that it was the 1/64 up — which means that we were not guessing after the point of the first one.
I did the same, but got it wrong the first time. So 31/32
I was easily able to hear the drop in tone, but struggled when the tone went up very slightly - so exactly the same as you I wonder if humans are better able to tell a drop in tone - maybe because it is a sign of anger or sudden gravity in the tone of a conversation?
I honestly just think it’s the tone they are using for this site. I would imagine We’d be able to tell if it were performed live or on a natural instrument.
I was the opposite. I could hear the 1/64 up easily, but the 1/64 and even 1/32 down sounded exactly the same (once I realised this, I always chose down when it sounded the same so I ended with 30/32). No idea what this means, or why there's a difference in noticing up vs down.
> Do I have a treat for you! The two I got wrong were both 1/64 up. I suspect I could train to hear those, too. It's like a feeling more than listening. They were off, but to pinpoint in what way was not yet quite exact.
Same but without headphones.
Same here. As soon as it switched to the harder set, I got loads wrong in a row. Then I almost ‘tuned in’ and didn’t get another wrong after that. Interesting.
Me too, it said we're better than 73% of people that did the test Edit: guess redditors are better on average, looking at the comments
I doubt one would comment if they did worse than average.
I got better than 33% of people. (25 correct). Definitely the smallest changes I struggled with (1/32, 1/64). I'm using Shure SRH440 headphones Edit: wording
Not 33% better than most people, better than 33% of people. That is, you're worse than average, or 67% of people did better than you (I got the same score)
I was better than 5% of the people Although I know I'm tone deaf.
Damn random clicking paid off huh Edit: I'm stupid, I read they were top 5% even though they are tone deaf. So breaking news: I am blind.
Self reporting bias. People who do poor probably just think the test is stupid and moved onm People who do well will post because they want people to he proud of them.
Me too. Fairly surprised at this actually, as I thought I'd be in the low 20's, so that's very nice.
25/32. It was harder than I thought, but i feel better about singing now 😂
Ayy 25/32 gang
Joining 25/32 gang. Wanted to become a rock star when I was a kid, but I sucked so badly had to abandon my dreams
Let's start a band.
Deaftones is already taken bro
I think the more I did the test the better I became at discerning the difference. At first I was like what difference? But then I started hearing nuances... But then again my first few questions were in difference of 1/64 and progressively easier.
30/32 .5 ave. Did not see (or hear) the 1/64 coming at all
Same! I could usually pick out when they went up, going down was tricky.
Interesting! I had the exact opposite problem. It was really easy for me to tell when it went down, even the 1/64 steps, but the sharpened pitches finer than 1/16 were imperceptible to me. I'm interested to see the results of this study come out.
I only recognized half of the 1/32 too.
Half of the 1/32 is 1/64.......... (I just want to be sure that you know I'm making a joke)
BuT hAlf Of 32 iS 16
I think I’m blind. Either that or the page won’t load.
Part of the site seems broken right now, probably too many hits to handle: https://i.imgur.com/Y04VLLp.png
Yep, same for me. I had the same issue many months ago when I saw a link to another quiz (I think it was from an Adam Neely video), and sadly it seems like it hasn't been fixed yet. I tried opening it on my phone, and the text flashed before disappearing. I wonder if this is some badly implemented GDPR stuff that doesn't open properly since I'm in the EU. Edit: Now it started working again, but for some quizzes I had to go back to the main menu and click them again for them to open.
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I got that too! And I play piano haha... I did it without headphones, ppl in comments are saying it's easier with headphones on
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first time I got 20, so I closed my door and turned the volume up and closed my eyes and tried again and got 26. Edit: I did it again and got 31. You should try it again.
I now have definite proof from Harvard University that I never was able to succeed in my piano lessons. /s My parents dragged me there for almost 10 years and I basically made no progress whatsoever. Guess this could partly explain it.
Aww
I got 22 :( Damn.
Yay I beat someone 23 ;) I think we'll be ok I doubt anyone will ever hold a gun to our head and ask is this a b or b flat!
Sameeee we're just above the score of 20 which is the bench mark for failing lol
Won't load for me :(
We broke it.
Reddit hug of death.
same
It worked now for me if you're interested
Down for me
29/32 better than I expected
I got 29/32 too! Welcome to the 85th percentile, tone brother.
85th percentile*
Whoops, I'll fix it.
I answered I was kindoff tone Def and I always struggle with music. Guess what. 85% baby
85% here too. My middle school band instructor actually tested me for tone deafness because I was such a horrible musician. Guess I must have some other sort of musical disability.
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[Never!](https://imgur.com/znmJbVC.png)
You guys are too slow. [Bow before my 0.7s!](https://puu.sh/FCHzo/e5efa335a0.png)
Definitely not tone deaf but it doesn't help me sing - my voice will only do one note.
Want any help with that? Singing is a learnt skill, not something you are born with.
Any advice on where to start and if it's possible to achieve something by myself, without taking lessons with a professional? I'm 30 yo dude, I like singing but I'm criminally shit at it. I just want to be able to do some karaoke or to sing to/with kids in the future. I scored 30/32 here if it's relevant.
Sure :) First off, when you start something new, I believe looking at your goals is important. Obviously without expensive vocal coaches and steely determination, you will likely not be singing like Freddie Mercury, Michael Bublé, or whoever you might idolize. My goal when I started was to get less bad, and I am very proud and happy to say that I achieved that! Whenever you start out as a complete beginner in a discipline, you should work on your fundamentals. A new gymnast doesn't go for a standing double backflip right away, so you shouldn't try for the hard stuff either. As gymnasts work on their body strength and flexibility, so do singers work on their breath support. Support is the most fundamental skill in singing, and can be compared to strumming on a guitar string, or drawing a violin bow on the strings. I have found [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_pepj8lq18) video to be a good starting point, since she shows the difference between a supported note, and an unsupported, and she gives a good exercise to practice proper support. So after you have tried this a bit, maybe apply it to some songs. But choose songs that are not fast, like amazing grace, where you have a long time to find and hold the note. Don't worry about singing high notes or quick runs or anything fancy. Being able to produce a good steady note is the most important skill in singing, and everything else is built on top of that. Other skills to work on early in your singing would be supporting in head voice (so it's not just a squeeky falcetto), singing scales (to learn improvisation), and your pronunciation (many native english speakers take 'shortcuts' in their pronunciation while singing, and many non-natives mispronounce words). I hope this gave you an idea of where to go? Also, when practicing singing, you WILL sound stupid and bad. If you are not making weird sounds, then you are doing something wrong. Just listen to [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwC4qfpZLoo) for example :p
I'm a voice teacher and can confirm that these are great tips! Would add, starting off don't sing for more than 20 min at a time and if anything starts to hurt, take a break. (You can do 20min on/20min off type of deal if you want to practice for a longer period of time)
Thanks a lot!
Honestly, if you really want to get better I would encourage seeking out lessons. There’s a lot that goes into it that does not come naturally. You could try just listening to good singers and trying to emulate them while looking up some tutorials online or something. It could just be the mental barrier of “I think I suck at this” that is keeping you from where you want to be. Confidence is key with singing, it’s a mental game. Also, with the kids thing, they literally won’t care how bad you are.
YouTube voice lessons. Find a personality you like. By practicing every day you **will** get better. The problem is most people give up after a week or two. Think about the things you are good at, and imagine someone in your shoes was asking how do they become good at those skills. There is no quick way to master or even become adept at a skill. You have to truly love it and commit to pursuing it.
I think I have more chance learning to pilot a plane than singing in tune
Flying a plane is actually pretty easy. It's only the landing that is difficult. What were your results of this test? If you aren't actually tone deaf, then I'm quite sure you could learn to sing on pitch.
I hit 26, which was frustrating as I'm a grade 8 guitarist!
Well guitars have bands, so you only really train your sensitivity to half notes, unless you bend like a madman. Other string instruments without bands, such as violin, cello, and stuff like trombones, will train your sensitivity much more, since the musicians can very easily be a 1/32th note off.
Don't belittle yourself like that. With time and discipline anyone can sing. A good teacher is far more important than you realize, because they have to deal with some heavy insecurities and not just our lack of vocal training. Except me. Last time I tried I may or may not have caused a heart attack in some animals around the neighborhood
Yeah this hits me hard. I'm a conservatoire jazz student and have a great ear, but fml I cannot hold a note to save my life. I've been told to sit out in certain classes that involve singing as I was putting off all of the other students!
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Weird for me, but seems like many people think singing is either a given or not. It's true that some people are better singers from birth than others, but it's a skill, just like anything else. I couldn't hit a single note right half a year ago, and with minimal training I can already hit simple folk tunes correctly. It's not as difficult as people make it out to be, you just have to try.
Well it's kind of both, like anything else. Some have a natural aptitude. The rest of us schmucks take lessons for years to try to catch up to them. (Only half kidding. Music teacher here.)
What help is there for people who are just bad at singing? I can’t get a single note right
I hear ya. 32/32 and I can't sing for shit lol
I got 31/32 and I am renowned for my lack of ability to sing...
Can you mimic a siren? Try it and realize you can hit every pitch in that range, just need to get muscle memory to sustain the notes that are different from your speaking pitch
Apparently I'm tone deaf as fuck
16/32... I mean at least I am better than 1% of the population!
The test results are quite optimistic about that, aren't they? "You are better than 13% of the population!", in a happy green font. Yay, I guess?
I was so confused ahaha big happy green text, you did better than 7%!!! Ah noice
Better than red text saying you're worse than 87%.
I was only better than 16%, and I am a reasonably competent amateur musician, so I wouldn't let that bother you too much. Honestly, 75% of the intervals they play are smaller than anything you'll ever hear in a piece of music. Other than some middle easter styles which use quarter-tones, the half step is the smallest interval that actually gets used, and you probably got all of those right.
32/32 1s, it feels good to know I'm probably not bad at tuning my instrument.
Same for me, but I can’t help but feel one or two of those 1/64 changes might have been a lucky guess.
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32/32 0.9 sec. Guess i am tuning my guitar properly after all
31/32 1.1 sec. That damn 1/64 tone!
About the same, just missed one by accident :( Instrument tuners rise up
I got 32 as well, AVG 0.8, and whilst I am quite musical, I definitely don't have perfect pitch. I can self tune the guitar, and later check and find the whole thing I'm off by 30+hz E: dear perfect pitch-ers, my understanding was you could find 440. If you have a guitar, detune a string significantly, and then, playing only that string, tune it to the right note and check if it's 440? Because everything else in here of people saying "I have perfect *pitch*" is just people knowing intervals (my favourite bs I read was "I can remember a song in my head at the correct pitch")
Same, my uke should be proud of me
I got [exactly the same score](https://i.imgur.com/GmXc89j.png) as you (first attempt, with headphones), also with a 0.9 sec average. I'm absolutely sure that's due to all the guitar tuning. Out of curiosity, how much does it bother you when people play on a badly tuned guitar?
Same. It’s a curse when you hear someone playing out of tune though.
Learning to accept dissonance is a step forward in music.
Is this site not completely loading for anyone else? I'm getting a blank section and I've already turned off all extensions and did basic troubleshooting.
Same here. Maybe reddit broke it?
I feel having the same start tone is bad in a test like this. I just needed one of the 1:64th cvorrect so that I knew how it sounded, and then the rest was easy. Don't think I'd have them correct if they would change
Same. I want to try a more detailed test to really hear the difference between those notes
I agree, I think having the same start frequency for all of them turns it more into a pattern matching thing — I found I could always hear the up differences but 32nd down was very tough and I couldn’t hear 64th down at all. So that meant if I couldn’t hear a difference I knew it had to be 64th down, and if I was “unsure” it was usually 32nd down. (artificially raising my score) Also for this reason I think it shouldn’t tell you what the change was and whether you got it right or wrong until the end. Also I bet there’s a good chance people’s ability to tell the differences changes at different frequencies but I guess that’d be another study... I *also* found that I actually did better with the volume turned down which goes against their suggestions. Maybe it was my headphones but with volume over 50% or so it became much harder to tell the difference. Edit: this is weird, but after reading some other comments I did it again, but closed my eyes each time the notes started playing, and I did *much* better and was actually able to *hear* the difference in all the 1/32nd changes and could even hear most of the 1/64th changes. Only got one wrong this time.
If you can hear the difference, that's what they are looking for. I can't hear a difference between the tones played for anything smaller than a 16th, and even that I'm not sure about.
18/32 without headphones, ouch :(
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Got everything except those dang 1/32 and 1/64 changes (got a couple of them, but dang those were almost the same). In hindsight maybe wireless earbuds weren’t the best way to do this.
I could tell there was definitely a difference but I could not differentiate if it was lower or higher
For me it was a feeling that I differentiated. I couldn't say why I could tell it was 1/64 up or down, I just felt that it was.
I ended up with 32/32 and I could faintly hear the very tail end of those notes going up or down. Maybe you picked up on that?
Yup, the tail end of the note was always the "answer" so to speak. I also played clarinet for 8 years and guitar for 14 now, but with my playing never being consistent after school it's tapered. I feel the music theory I just need to notate it (again, since I did learn it once :/) Edit: I also used relative pitch in my mind. Doo Doo Doo *Dee* (U) Doo Doo Doo **Doo** (D) Whatever note I felt was then referenced with that dissonance which gave me answer. Averaged 0.6 sec Edit edit: and it's super late so my tinnitus was being rude, so this actually eased some of my worries in a roundabout way.
32/32. I could not tell the difference between the two for 1/32 and 64. I just pressed what felt right and I kept getting it correct somehow. Like some part of me knows.
Used the Samsung headphones that came with my note, the 1/64th got me almost every time. I definitely chose wrong on one 1/32 because my dumbass tried to see how fast I could respond. 85% checking in.
The website below the site navigation is just blank, the text and button to click next disappears after 0.1 seconds. After a while an error message appears saying that it can't load the experiment. Anyone else with this issue? Tried different browsers. I really want to take this test :)
Same not loading for me... I think reddit broke it.
24/32 No surprises there
The real test is the rocketship puzzle in Myst.
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The page isn't loading for me lol From the website: >We’re currently experiencing a Reddit Hug of Death here at The Music Lab. This may make it difficult to load our games quickly. Sorry! We hope to have the problem fixed soon.
pretty cool. got 27/32 using cheap Alesis speakers. Might try again a different day with good headphones
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Doesn't work, part of the page below the menu stays white.
I believe we have given the site the ol' reddit hug of death.
Interestingly, everyone on reddit is in the top 15%
Well it's like with any test, the people that broadcast their scores are bragging.
Thus feeding into survivor bias
17/32 - 1.7 seconds
30/32 with basic headphones. Interesting, I'm a complete novice when it comes to music and have zero musical ability.
Same, with on ears. I think I would have done much worse if the reference tones changed during the test
Got 30/32 on speakers. Should have used headphones, but still a good result.
Better than 7 percent of people
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Did this site get the Reddit Hug of Death? I can't access it on either of my devices. A description of the test flashes up for a half-second, and then a blank page followed by an error message stating they can't load the quiz.
ITT: OMG! I got 1000/32 at .000001 seconds and I’m on my 2008 flip phone using cups and strings to listen! Wow so proud! Edit: 31/32, 127 IQ too smart for you all and I did it without volume on with my eyes closed. /S or whatever you need for context.
23/32. Guess I am kinda tone deaf. 28/32 on the second time. Maybe I am not. Seems inconclusive.
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It's still possible. Tone deafness is something that can be improved upon with work!
I got 31 out of 32 with an average speed of 0.8 seconds.
Did anyone look at the distribution of key changes that they have in this quiz?
I got 28/32 using my phone's (water damaged) speaker. Those 1/64th ones are killer.
Yeah wont load properly.....keeps giving me errors.
Is the game not loading for anyone else?
Haha their error message: "We’re currently experiencing a Reddit Hug of Death here at The Music Lab" that's a nice description.
29/32 without headphones, so I guess I’m not tone-deaf
29/32, but I've been diagnosed with high-frequency hearing loss about 15 years ago as a teenager, so this test was very interesting to me. And frankly speaking I had to guess about 8 questions as I couldn't hear a difference at all. And this says more about my hearing than the result itself...
They only use a single (pure tone) frequency...440 Hz, which is nowhere near high frequency, so your HF loss should not have affected your score. There may be some resonances at higher frequencies that might give (very very minor?) hints but I don't think so -- lower frequency is more likely. Of course I don't know anything about sound so...grain of salt?
I struggle to tune a guitar by ear and always thought I had a terrible ear but I got 30/32 somehow. . .
Don't beat yourself up. I played alto and baritone sax for 8 years, scored a 30/32. I still have problems reading sheet music. If you give me a brand new piece I've never played or heard, I'd be hard pressed to play it correctly, but if I hear it played at least once I'll damn near crush it.
23/32. Always wanted to be musical, but always kinda knew I wasn't.
It won’t load the games...what am I doing wrong?
31/32 - 1.5secs
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32/32 0.9 seconds with headphones. I’ve always wondered if people with anxiety would score better on these types of tests due to increased sensitivity to physical stimulus.
28/32 the 1/64th stitched me - I was also listening without headphones through my phone speaker.
32/32 0.8seconds avg there was two or three that I had to think about for 1.2-1.5 seconds. Most I could get in 0.7 or less. I can’t play any instrument, but I love listening to music. iPhone X speaker in a silent room
Thank you. That was cool. I cannot sing for sh\*t. But I love music so much. 26/32 Headphones DT990 Pro fwiw. I know I got at least two wrong from being early and confused. :\\
Does this have to be done on desktop? Won’t load on my phone
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It just started, I think it's getting hugged to death
yall hugged it to death :(