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Old 2012.08.06, 09:12 AM   #1
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I bet some of you might already know this, but I've came across some sort of test for tonal recognition.

What I find to be a problem (at least to me) is that some of the melodies are too long and the differences between them are sometimes too slight, in the sense that the variants in tone may occur on a non-tonic note (sorry for my lack of technical knowledge!), so I'm not just instinctively recognizing the tonal differences, I'm also memorizing a whole melody while paying special attention to the lesser important notes at the same time.

I got 88.9% Correct.

The test: http://jakemandell.com/tonedeaf/
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Old 2012.08.06, 01:22 PM   #2
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91.7% here, I found it quite easy actually
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Old 2012.08.06, 02:45 PM   #3
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77.8%... would do better if I got to repeat the sounds a couple times.
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Old 2012.08.07, 07:02 AM   #4
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75%... mostly due to memory deficit I suspect.
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Old 2012.08.15, 03:26 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Carlx View Post
...some of the melodies are too long and the differences between them are sometimes too slight, in the sense that the variants in tone may occur on a non-tonic note (sorry for my lack of technical knowledge!)...
Do you mean microtonal intervals? Because I was picking up on that too. I scored very low on the test, despite having been involved in creating music for years. Skim over the quote box text below if you don't want to see TEST SPOILERS.
I voted that most of the musical passages sounded dissimilar, but apparently I was incorrect, because I got a very low score (something in the 50's?). I've been told I'm a good singer, and can imitate voices well, so I would think my tone comprehension would be at least average. Maybe I'm in denial about my tone-deafness, but I was pretty sure on a lot of the passages that there was some degree of tonal difference that the test results didn't recognize. The fact that the passages were played on synthesizers with pitch bending didn't help either! #soreloser?
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Old 2012.08.15, 04:15 PM   #6
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80.6% D: (8 years of training yet no perfection >:{)
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Why did I barely get 50%?
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Old 2014.11.10, 01:01 PM   #8
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I got 94.4%. Isn't this more of an auditory memory test? Most of the music talk on these forums goes over my head but I always had great short term memory for sounds.
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Old 2014.11.10, 04:03 PM   #9
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83.3% Correct. My experience in MIDI RPG music seemed to have served me well here.

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