Saturday, December 26, 2009
Are you tone deaf?
Pauline found this test:
http://jakemandell.com/tonedeaf/
It plays a random sequence of tones, then pauses, then plays a second random sequence of tones. You have to say whether or not the second set was the same as the first. Repeat for something like 36 different sequences.
It was much more challenging than I expected. As the website says, "The test is purposefully made very hard, so excellent musicians rarely score above 80% correct." Here are the results from our family:
John - 88.9%
Leslie - 69.4%
Pauline - 63.9%
Emily - 61.1%
(We suspect that Emily's score is more of a reflection of her unfortunate habit of thinking that she already knows everything--and not taking the time to give serious consideration to something--rather than a reflection of her tone memory. In a lot of ways she's better at matching pitches than either Pauline or Leslie.)
http://jakemandell.com/tonedeaf/
It plays a random sequence of tones, then pauses, then plays a second random sequence of tones. You have to say whether or not the second set was the same as the first. Repeat for something like 36 different sequences.
It was much more challenging than I expected. As the website says, "The test is purposefully made very hard, so excellent musicians rarely score above 80% correct." Here are the results from our family:
John - 88.9%
Leslie - 69.4%
Pauline - 63.9%
Emily - 61.1%
(We suspect that Emily's score is more of a reflection of her unfortunate habit of thinking that she already knows everything--and not taking the time to give serious consideration to something--rather than a reflection of her tone memory. In a lot of ways she's better at matching pitches than either Pauline or Leslie.)
# posted by John Colton @ 3:09 PM 
