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Are You Tonedeaf? Test Your Skills. While working at the music and neuroimaging lab at Beth Israel/Harvard Medical School in Boston, I developed a quick online way to screen for the tonedeafness.
It actually turned out to be a pretty good test to check for overall pitch perception ability. The test is purposefully made very hard, so excellent musicians rarely score above 80% correct. Give it a try! In our research, we were looking for neuro-anatomical correlates of tonedeafness (called "congenital amusia" in the scientific literature. We gave several dozen subjects a high-resolution MRI scan and used a statistical package to analyze the images. This technique, called VBM (voxel-based morphometry), has been used to study the changes in the brain caused by Alzheimer disease and many other neurological conditions. The test you are about to take was used as a screening test to roughly characterize patient’s pitch discrimination and musical memory abilities. Even though musical memory is strongly tested here, we have found that people who are tonedeaf tend to have normal musical memories. http://jakemandell.com/tonedeaf/ I scored 80.6% a psychotic is someone who just figured out what's going on | |
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Oh, yes motherfucker!
"86.1% Correct" There's a Bumhole in my Heart. | |
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91.7% correct | |
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BeneHaze said: 91.7% correct
Recount! I'm sure there are some musical hanging chads somewhere to boost my score. There's a Bumhole in my Heart. | |
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a modest 83.3% | |
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80.6% Correct | |
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47.2% Correct
and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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and with my eyes closed i get 78,4 %
wtf and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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83.3% Feel free to join in the Prince Album Poll 2018! Let'a celebrate his legacy by counting down the most beloved Prince albums, as decided by you! | |
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88.9% | |
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fuck me, only 72.2%
that doesn't seem right | |
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88.9 % I'll live with that..... ... " I've got six things on my mind --you're no longer one of them." - Paddy McAloon, Prefab Sprout | |
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86.1! I'M NOT SHOUTING, JEEZ! | |
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75%, not too bad. | |
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87.4%
It WAS actually harder than I thought for me to focus my attention for that long...it felt like it took forever. | |
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FruitToAttractBears said: 87.4%
It WAS actually harder than I thought for me to focus my attention for that long...it felt like it took forever. Did your computer glitch? It's not possible to get 87.4% out of 36 questions. Just sayin'. Feel free to join in the Prince Album Poll 2018! Let'a celebrate his legacy by counting down the most beloved Prince albums, as decided by you! | |
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Bumhole said: BeneHaze said: 91.7% correct
Recount! I'm sure there are some musical hanging chads somewhere to boost my score. I've done it again and got 91.7% again so no fluke | |
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BeneHaze said: Bumhole said: Recount! I'm sure there are some musical hanging chads somewhere to boost my score. I've done it again and got 91.7% again so no fluke Yeah? Well I just did it again pretending to be you, and I only got 34.2%. Somebody's telling fibs here... There's a Bumhole in my Heart. | |
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Bumhole said: BeneHaze said: I've done it again and got 91.7% again so no fluke Yeah? Well I just did it again pretending to be you, and I only got 34.2%. Somebody's telling fibs here... U dont even know me so u cant pretend 2 be me properly anyways | |
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BeneHaze said: Bumhole said: Yeah? Well I just did it again pretending to be you, and I only got 34.2%. Somebody's telling fibs here... U dont even know me so u cant pretend 2 be me properly anyways i'm just messin There's a Bumhole in my Heart. | |
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I only got 75%.
I think it's because I got bored halfway through. I stopped listening closely and then it just all fell apart. I have zero attention span. That thing was LONG man. "I saw a woman with major Hammer pants on the subway a few weeks ago and totally thought of you." - sextonseven | |
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minneapolisgenius said: I only got 75%.
I think it's because I got bored halfway through. I stopped listening closely and then it just all fell apart. I have zero attention span. That thing was LONG man. Getting those phrases seemed more like a memory test to me... Is music about memory? | |
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Stax said: I scored 80.6% me too. i wish they would let you compare them twice. | |
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coolcat said: minneapolisgenius said: I only got 75%.
I think it's because I got bored halfway through. I stopped listening closely and then it just all fell apart. I have zero attention span. That thing was LONG man. Getting those phrases seemed more like a memory test to me... Is music about memory? It was like this: Which I was always crap at. "I saw a woman with major Hammer pants on the subway a few weeks ago and totally thought of you." - sextonseven | |
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minneapolisgenius said: coolcat said: Getting those phrases seemed more like a memory test to me... Is music about memory? It was like this: Which I was always crap at. | |
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75%
ehh, I guess it's okay considering I'm not a musician, but that's only the 46th percentile. I wonder how Prince would do.... The check. The string he dropped. The Mona Lisa. The musical notes taken out of a hat. The glass. The toy shotgun painting. The things he found. Therefore, everything seen–every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it–is a Duchamp. | |
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83.3 Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise. | |
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I scored 86.1%. I have a feeling I could do better if I concentrated harder, so I'll try it again later. Wanna hear me sing? www.ChampagneHoneybee.com | |
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83.3% Correct | |
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magneticvoodoo said: Stax said: I scored 80.6% me too. i wish they would let you compare them twice. me too, and I agree. It's a test of concentration just as much as pitch. If they let you listen again it would be more about pitch and less about concentration. My Legacy
http://prince.org/msg/8/192731 | |
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