Are you 'tone deaf'? Watch this video to find out! (Part 1)
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- Are you 'tone deaf'? Watch this video to find out! (Part 1)
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this went from a tone deaf test to a memory test real quick
😂😂
Fr
Exactly
nah we had that in exams in 5th-8th grade.. had a few notes given and they would play a melody and we had to add the missing notes or guess the accords. but i had music as a main subject, the bavarian school system is weird lol
That's not really a memory test per say. Like yes memory serves purpose here, but it's more about "calculating" pitch from the tonal center
The mere fact I’m not a tone deaf is enough for me.
lol same
same
same🤣🤣👍
same
Funny enough that's what I thought when I got done with the ascending and descending notes. Like "Yup. Good enough for me let's ditch"
This escelated quickly lol, went from being told I'm most likely not tone deaf, to overwhelmed
FACTS!
Ikr, I can't handle remembering and recognizing things that correspond to numbers. If they did this with shapes I'd be just as bad.
The difficulty went from 1 to 100 really quick
I love how this repeated the sound of going up like 6 different times but then just basically gives us 8 notes to memorize and associate with numbers at the end
Exactly.
Personally I thought it was fine that they played the last part once because it was always a do-re-mi progression, though it was definitely overkill to do so many examples of going up lol
math and memory, my wort enemies
@@tiffanychae Seems like writing is one of them too
@@ayevaboo 😂
I had a friend who had vocal tone-deafness: if I played a note on the piano, he couldn't match it at all with his voice (by several notes.) But without looking he could match it with his flute. So he could hear the note correctly, but couldn't tell that he wasn't singing it correctly. A very strange kind of tonal dyslexia.
i'm like this! I played the piano for almost 14 years, so i learned to identify notes quite well... but if i'm asket to sing the note.. well... 8/10 times i sing the wrong note
it’s also probably what he has practice with! if he doesn’t sing often, he wouldn’t have the practice to easily recreate the sound that way, even if he knew what it should sound like. if he was a good flutist, he would be able to! pretty cool actually
omg i’m like this lol i study music and it’s so frustrating tbh but at least i can recognise the notes i just can’t make my voice co operate with my head
It's more about not having control over your voice. I sing and play the piano, both non-professionally and sometimes I can hear a note perfectly but I just can't reach it with my voice, because I have little control over it. Especially if it's low-high-low transitions. That's why I do vocal exercise for agility and flexibility of voice.
Isn't this pretty normal?
When I hum a note it usually doesn't come out the way I hear it in my head, but I feel like I could improve with training.
Isn't this half the reason singing is considered a skill, rather than an innate human ability?
Relative pitch is honestly pretty learnable if you're not tone deaf. If you can remember songs that have a certain interval, it's memorize the note gap, and apply it when you need it. For example, think twinkle twinkle little star, and the first note jump is a perfect 4th. If you can remember that, you can probably train yourself to hear that familiar pattern in music and now you know what the 4th of a major scale sounds like
**Perfect 5th but yeah it's a good strategy, I've learned to identify a lot of the intervals that way
@@quinn470 thought i forgot the melody to twinkle twinkle for a sec 😮💨 I use Star Wars for fifths lol
well yes, you can learn to have perfect pitch as well
@@applespotty2232 twinkle twinkle little Star Wars
@@gameclips5734not “actually” you can TRY to practice or train perfect pitch but it needs to be at a very young age (like about 1-8 years old) and its still not guaranteed to get it even if you put all of your effort into it.
Knew a guy with perfect pitch in high school, he played snare drum. A few times when I forgot to tune before practice or a show I’d quickly get him to tell me if I was in tune. It was so cool.
I got as far as ruling myself out as "tone deaf". The moment the scale was broken out, I was lost.
the scale part where i have to guess one note is kinda easy but when it comes to the 2-3 notes i was lost💔
The scale was difficult for me I can usually do it in my choir class with a group but it on my own
yea when the numbers came it was over
This isnt even a test of relative pitch XD this is something different.
@@hueningkaistripleeyelids7504 Same, I can guesstimate but I don't have the short term memory to remember all the notes
People seem worried about the numbers part but honestly that’s a little more advanced than something most people just know with no prior learning! When I took singing classes we regularly had exercises for trying to memorize the octave notes and being able to name them just by ear. That’s something you usually have to train unless you’re born with “perfect pitch” like it says at the start of the video, but that’s not all that common. So don’t worry y’all it’s normal to not pass that part lol
You don't even need to learn the numbers, this is an interval training too
And if I passed everything except this is it cool or jsut normal?
@@kombrug well it means you’re not tone deaf lol. Idk what the percentage is of people who are tone deaf vs people who aren’t
I actually learn that (but instead of numbers we use do re mi fa so la ti do and a,b,c,d,e,f,g (note names)
We did this kind of interval training when I took choir in high school. I'm a little rusty now (it's been over 20 years) but I managed to get these with a little bit of time to listen and think. Back then, though, we trained intervals all the time and I definitely would have gotten them right away.
It's definitely a skill learned through training. You don't have to be born with it to succeed.
I passed the first five and had no idea on the identify by number section.
It wasn't a gradual progression; all of the first five stages were very easy, and I had no chance whatsoever with the rest. It's like going from basic addition to calculus.
Regardless, it doesn't matter because I'm hopeless at learning music. I took a class on music in the elementary school and failed it twice because students were required to learn to read music, and I apparently am incapable of doing that. The lesson would make sense while the professor was teaching it, then when I'd attempt to do it on my own, it no longer made sense. It also is a lot like calculus in that way, but harder.
I think they go too fast through the notes. I was off. But close.
You aren't hopeless. You learned how to read english, beginner level sheet music is much simpler than that. If you found a good teacher who could explain it to you 1 on 1 you would have a much better time.
It took me 6 years to understand music theory fundamentals. Don't give up!
if it makes you feel better i've been playing guitar for about 6 years or so and played piano for 2 years, and i still haven't really learned how to read music lol. but i'd say i'm a pretty decent guitar player so honestly it doesn't impact me that much where i am now.
After 14 years of playing piano I’m glad to announce that I’m not tome deaf yayyy
Even if you have perfect pitch, being able to know how far apart the notes are in the last section uses a completely different part of the brain. It takes a lot of practice, had to take interval tests in music class once a month. It's definitely something that requires practice.
Good to know i have an excuse to fail
@No Touchy me too, but it was also just one tone apart from the right answer^^
i feel like the “do re mi” vocal exercise helps a lot with this
That part of my brain needs some repair. I've never been able to match notes on paper to notes in practice.
@@iamafish7 probably cuz ur a fish
Huge props for not making a dumb video , this was great straight to the point and
no bullshit.
I was waiting for still dre on the last level
It was confusing though. I thought the notes would actually be an A and B but they kept changing
I mis-read it as, "Huge props on making a dumb video"
@@josephassiryani9174 Lol same
@@josephassiryani9174 same, though that was gonna be the punchline to the whole video
i know a lot of people lie to say they got everything right
and i have no proof of it
but i got them all right
i can actually be proud of myself for once
I play guitar and this test was so easy to pass, anyone who plays musical instrument or sings well won't fail this test.
The relative pick part is a huge jump in difficulty. It's a skill that actually needs to be trained. (I actually got the 1-5 ratio and I'm really proud of that.)
#metoo
Yeah. That jumped way too far!
I was so close i answered 2-5, that or i just got lucky
I only have the perfect fifth and the major third memorized. It's way harder to imprint in memory than one would think
same
Guys trust the relative pitch stuff is harder than the rest by a mile I’ve had 10+ years of formal piano training and I still don’t have perfect pitch or anything but this skill is something you develop after years of hearing music in the application phase, where you are playing it instead of just hearing it. Understanding why something sounds the way it does helps with building these skills a lot, just stick to your practice and you’ll get there!
10 years of violin and piano for me, playing since I was 4
I actually do have perfect pitch, and for me it was playing violin/being around music my entire life!! Also, it really helped that I was trained in Suzuki, where there is NO movable Do: Do simply is Do, Fa simply is Fa, So simply is So, and so on.
Also, it is mean that I love the fact that I make people uncomfortable when they ask for a pitch and I give it, and they’re unconvinced so they go play it on the piano and I was right 😂
Played piano for 4 years and nailed the whole test. I think you're right.
@@isabelabernathy5116 oh wow my story is the exact same haha. I have perfect pitch and started cello when I was four and now I have been playing for almost 13 years! I spent my first 5 years on Suzuki and then switched over to more advanced solo repertoire plus a ton of chamber music (pieces like death and the maiden). I truly believe that Suzuki did help me cultivate perfect pitch as well, though others think otherwise.
Although I have relative pitch, I’ve shown my friends some stuff and I can say for sure that in their perspective it was waaay harder than I think it is
If it werent for my abysmal short term memory loss, i'd be perfect at this, i guessed the end nearly perfectly, just forgetting which ones go in which spot
I was in band the entire way through high school and have always found music extremely interesting. I often listen to music composers breakdown complex video game soundtracks and certain songs I listen to I LOVE the way the notes progress.
I only failed one of these tests (stage 6) and I was still pretty close. I still can’t sing for shit though, glad my ears work good 😂
As long as you don't have an aural issue, your voice can be trained to repeat a note that you've heard. It's a muscle memory thing, kind of like knowing how to sight read music, especially on an instrument like a violin. When I play a piece on the piano, I almost always know when I've played something wrong, even before I get the aural feedback. My fingers know where they should be, even if they refuse to go there.
"My fingers know where they should be, even if they refuse to go there."
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Its like typing! Like I'll know I typed a word wrong before I read it, building those neural pathways truly is quite powerful
Thats my problem, is that i cant repeat the same note that i hear vocally
100/100
as a 12 year old who plays both the flute and the violin, i agree
Turns out I'm not tone deaf, but my voice is still wildly unreliable. Voice breaks or gets lost easily, and has broken up range that's super limited.
then just play your favorite instrument i suppose
I’m pretty sure I used to be somewhat tone-deaf but it’s gotten a whole lot better. I tried it and aced it
You’ve ever had that awkward gap between two ranges? No? Then you’ve probably never tried really really high notes
If you're really trying to learn how to sing, try humming and reading aloud for long periods of time. Makes you utilize muscles you don't usually and helps build strength and stamina. Biggest thing other than that is record yourself. Sucks to listen to your own voice at the start but once you get used to it you'll notice your strengths and weaknesses better so you can address them properly. Start small though and stay hydrated, don't hurt yourself.
These are all bad advices - if your voice breaks or gets lost, that means that you are not controlling it properly, and only teacher will help you
I almost failed my music test in school , now I may be Singaporean but I didn’t know a music test made by this Singaporean channel could be so easy
I got them all right, I had to pause and listen to the sequences a couple times at the end to make sure, but I did it!
My oldest sibling was able to play stuff on her toy piano as a 4 year old after hearing a song, she just instinctively knew exactly how to play a song without any piano lessons. But sadly our parents didn't put in the time, money and effort to put that skill to test. I really believe she could have been a concert pianist with different parents. I know if I showed her this video she would get everything right.
@@jonniefast no.. if you have musically inclined parents, your natural talent is fostered immensely better than if you don't have parents who give a shit or understand.
@@jonniefast As a child, your entire life revolves around your parents when it comes to self improvement, they will foster your skills and they will provide you resources. The sad thing is you can actually throw away a lot of opportunities on your own even if your parents care, but if your parents don't care you can only really start improving after you become an adult, which puts you at a huge disadvantage because adult life often means you don't have much free time for self development. So yes parents are the most important aspect of your development.
@@jonniefast it's not really that simple. when u are a child, you're parents make the decisions for you. so if you have musically inclined parents, u are in favour, but if they are not willing to support, u can't really do anything about it.
@Purple PencilGrey-Pink Not if you have simply piano🤣🤣
I used to be good at that but couldn’t afford music lessons and now i don’t have time or money
it’s sad but it’s life I guess
This was a super fun way to find out I'm at least sort of tone deaf and definitely can't understand pitch. You can never have too many skills to suck at!
Lol couldnt be me
Brutal
Same bud
@@user-fk9vm6no5i no one asked kid
At least i'm not tone deaf, though i don't know that relative pitch thing.
As long as I am able to listen to music and sing it (with shtty voice) all is fine.
doing choir every week where we learn to read music and sing the melody ON SIGHT... you get pretty good at this.
I was told to mime in my school music class as I was tone deaf. I can't sing, but I was able to recognise all the sounds on the quiz.
I absolutely failed the last one horribly, my brain Just couldn't compute hearing the scale numbers out of order. This did help me learn that I need to Improve on my skill of Identifying scale sequences, so thank you!
it’s crazy, i didn’t even think, i just knew the answers, i guess it’s actually true you can be born with good ears 🤣
ain no one care 🤣
i have a really bad memory, so that skill helped me a lot :D
Ya
@@XyreinCS i think it would’ve helped if the numbers were labeled as notes instead
Failed stage 6, I feel like it was a bit too quick. I'm unfamiliar with scales and can't recognize chord progressions. But recognizing tones seems achievable if I spent more time studying. Fun Video! Thanks!
It was a bit tricky but I just hummed the scale and recognized the 3 notes relative to the other notes in that scale. I def have a relative pitch but not perfect unfortunately :( I have been playing the piano for a while tho so it might have to do with that
same
same
Don’t feel bad. I posted another spot on this video that that is a very weighted test. Music students take multiple years of training in that area. It is not something that people are just expected to be able to do. It says nothing of “tone deafness”.
I got 66% of stage 6 so I think that's alright
Holy crap. I did everything but the last 2 with ease. Never thought I had an ear for music, never even really tried
Im a pianist, this made me A LOT more confident
I can hear any sound and instantly recreate it perfectly by whistling, but actually being able to mathematically say how 'far apart' notes are from each other... I had to memorize the scale and then play it back in my head a bunch of times to figure it out. I suppose this must be one of those things that would improve with practice.
Yep, it's definitely something you can learn. I'm very good at recognising 1-4 and 1-5 because I spent a lot of time playing Timpani and this is the most common spacing when tuning those for different pieces. 1-2 and 1-8 are obvious. 1-3 and 1-6 I can guess from them being a bit off from 1-4 and 1-5 which I learned. and 1-7 is just one down from the full octave. Now, if we went into half steps my brain would be confused.
Yep intervals like 1-5 1-4 1-3 1-2m 1-2M and 1-8 are very easy to recognize, for 1-4 you can use songs like The International's 2 first notes.. but the rest comes with allot of practice
finally i found a person that can do the thing i can do
bet you’re a barrel of fun
lol i can do the same
i really like trying to replay any songs i hear by whistling
I feel like the later tests are something of skill you’d need to develop or just have more time practicing. I was getting really close, but without much time with the notes it was hard to be able to remember each of them by sound with 8 of them. While I could tell the difference between all of them and was close to the correct answer each time, I just felt that given more time with them I could have easily completed the task. (It’s like a memory test with sound, plus a pitch test. Fun.) But this was fun. Cool video whomever made this.
Well it is possible to learn to be very close to pitch perfect with enough (and I mean a lot, like at least 5-10 years of very diligent) practice.
but to be honest, I got all of them right...without any years of practice!
Agreed. After 2:26 it seems like stuff you'd have to sit down an memorize before being able to reproduce it 😅 But otherwise it was fun! I made it up to that point lol
bruh I got them right and I don't have zero idea about music. I just listen to a lot of metal .what the...
PS: Nevermind I one wrong. I said it's 4 instead of 5. Damn I almost forgot it... I guess we need practice
It's fine. Tbh it went a little fast, I wasn't expecting it since the first couple questions were slow paced. I think it's why some people got mixed up with it. I also mix up numbers and letters all the time too so the number scale visually confused me. But if I shut my eyes and listen then I get the answers right
I was really surprised by the fact that I got everything right first try, super proud of myself! I wasn’t expecting that
Excited I got them all right!
Well, I'm not tone deaf. But my ADHD made those last few sections really difficult due to the issues with working memory. However I could identify that each sound was different. Maybe after learning them a bit more, I could identify them. But for now, for me, it's a memory game.
Same. I can sing it, but I can't remember the numbers.
same 😭 I got ADD
Took the words right out of my mouth
same, i got the first right but everything else was very not close. i kept thinking that 8 was the highest pitch for some reason lol
If you sing it out loud it cures this, worked for me at least. Idk if that's cheating though lmao
The last part got me, I could tell generally where the scale started and ended but couldn't be sure on the exact numbers. This is actually surprising as I figured I was tone deaf because I sound like a tortured seal being flung between two orcas when I sing...
These are completely different skills in different parts of the body! Singing is stuff in your throat and lungs, tone identification is stuff in your brain and ears ☺️
Yea, but you can HEAR that you sound bad when you sing.
Tone deaf people usually cant even tell theyre singing poorly or off key when they do it.
I could tell the intervals, but was wrong on the starting note (I guessed 3-4-7 when it was actually 2-3-6)
@@garfinkelc11 I was the opposite; I could identify the starting note, but not the notes afterwards.
I guess knowing you sing out of tune proves you aren't tone deaf!
I guessed 1-4 and 1-3-7 on the last two and I honestly did better than I thought I would.
I got them all right, cool. I used to play an Instrument when I was younger though.
The A vs B tripped me up. I was like "That's not what A sounds like!" it took me way to long to realize you were talking about just two choices
OOMG SAME I WAS LIKE WTF THIS VIDEO IS WRONG
Lmao I thought the same exact thing. Also everyone in this thread has perfect pitch so far lol.
i thought the exact same thing 💀
I think it's there to trip you smart people, that clearly don't need to take this test, up.
@@RDR7891 I definitely don't. Just have been playing instruments for the past 10 years which helps. Still made me think I was crazy lol
getting the 1-3-6 made me smile. my high school choir teacher taught us to determine intervals like that in individual lessons, and it brought me back to all those memories.
If you keep doing the 1-3-6 repeatedly, then you get "Still Dre".
I got 1-4-6 on that one
I got a very close 1 3 7 on that one, I suck at musical notes overall and just couldn't guess the first 2 so I guess that's something
@@de-ment that's the correct one.. it's 1-3-7
@@cocohmar5341 no.. it's told by the video to be 136
I got all of them surprisingly even after being told by my father that I'm tone deaf however I didn't learn music from sheets after a point I kinda just could listen to something and play it decently well on my violin
i did violin suzuki method when i was younger! i still got it WOOO
I was killing it till the sequences part came💀
This shit rocks 💀
I got every one right until the second to last question 🤦♂️
same 💀
i got em all right easily
does that mean i have perfect pitch
@Felix E oh ok
I don't now if this is just me but this seemed like more of a memory exercise than a tone deaf. I have been taking voice lessons for quite a while now and the way we practice pitch is playing one note and then singing the note right above it or an octave above it. especially with the numbers part, I couldn't remember what the last note was.
edit: I kinda phrased my comment poorly a little, it wasn't "mostly" memorization. I get that it is difficult to create a tone deaf test if the person isn't sitting in front of you. And I'm sure you can find great ways to bypass the relying on your memory and overall does a good job of saying if you are tone deaf or not, I've also been informed that it tests the pitch in your mind with the memory parts.
It tests your memory and the pitch in your mind. That’s what I’m doing for my major lol
thought im the only one!! except the fact that i never took voice classes, this felt more like a memory test
I did the last one by singing the number sequence again until I could recognize the latternt
Well even if you have good memory, you won’t be able to pass the last section without having a good ear … so yes, on the one hand it is kinda a memory test, but it is still mostly an ear test.
Part 6 is more memory than anything
I got them all first try without any pauses. I don’t play music but still found this very easy.
this went from knowing if i’m tone deaf to telling me i should pay more attention to my scales and memorize them
I’m a musician who knows they do NOT have perfect pitch, so when they were going between A or B I thought they were actually playing the notes A and B and would play different notes like sharps or flats to test our musical ear. Turns out I WAY over thought it 😂
Same lol
would've been a lot easier if they called it note "X" and note "Y"
Yeah I didn’t realize it until the 3rd stage
It makes sense you can't hear the exact note, but to be fair, the interval they did was a minor 3rd. So that kind of already tells you it can't be A and B, because those are only a major 2nd apart.
Same
Ok once it got to the part with the numbers I bombed so hard. Definitely something I need to work on 🤣
Omg same…it was nuts
Same🤧
i was perfect before but numbers confuse me
Same here
it's probably because you have to memorize which number is which note, cause I wasn't able to put in my brain "this number is this sound". I hate numbers. But hey, now I know I'm not tone deaf. I feel good that I may have perfect pitch or close to it at least, because I'm able to hear the slightest different in pitch pretty often.
I got it correct first time around that’s pretty chill 😂
as a musician the last couple i could do only because i have practiced this major scale before (lots of people do this its kinda hard not to) . You should be very proud if you can do the last ones without musical knowledge. I can almost guarantee this online school will have you doing exercises where you memorize this scale, so its normal for people without experience to be unable to do it.
This was interesting. I'd been wondering if perfect pitch was lost with age, but apparently not, as I still have it. I used to tune my violin by ear, before the class began, to test my "ear." That's when I was about ten. I'm now elderly, and haven't played an instrument since fifth grade, but I still have my "ear." Well, at least there's _one_ thing I haven't lost. 😊
Meanwhile, Me (as King Shark): **points to ear** "Ear!"
I'm really jealous of you. I'm a gigging musician, and I didn't start playing music till I was 13. My ear was absolutely terrible till I was maybe 20. I'm 23 now, and I barely managed to get through the whole thing. The last one I thought it was just the major chord: 1, 3, 5. So I guess I missed one note! Even now, it's something I work on as much as I can because it has always been a weakness for me. I've learned to understand music so much more from ear training, and even when I miss a note it teaches me something. With that barrier overcome, I'm sure you'd be playing violin again in no time (or really whatever insturment you pursue). But anyway, you should pick up an instrument. It is never too late, and it will keep you young.
@@NarwahlGaming HAH
You're lucky then (or still not that old). There has been a lot of rumouring about losing perfect pitch with age, and it looks like most people with perfect pitch "lose" it after the age of 40+. The interesting thing is that those people dont completely lose perfect pitch, but it changes a half tone or even more. Since I dont have perfect pitch, I dont know how to imagine this, but essentially you start to hear things differently from what you were before which is kinda crazy.
The thing you have lost? Your V card because you're an absolute legend.
The "numbers" section is part of ear training, which I had back in music college. There's no secret to it; you just gotta sit down, and take the time to listen to the relationship between the pitches. The way I do it is I associate the intervals with feelings and emotions. It's sorta like mnemonics for music.
That was hard too many choices for someone that doesn't even listen to music that often
Thank you for the advice. I never would have thought of doing that!
Transcribing music by ear really helped me before I took Aural Skills classes my first two years. It's also fun as well since it's almost like a puzzle or game to put all the tracks together of your favorite piece of music, whether it be through notation or a DAW software. It's how I did a recreation of the Beach Boys Pet Sounds album
Some are super easy: 1 to 2, because we're so used to hearing them next to each other anyway when starting up a scale, and the 7, because has so much tension to resolve to the octave. That really just leaves the 3, 4, 5, and 6 to worry about.
For me, i personally just changed all of the numbers to their solfege equivalent (do re mi), since I'm a vocalist, this was much easier
The fact that im taking this quiz even though i have an ear for music. Was in band for 6 years and played 3 different instruments in the time
I got all of them! Proud I didnt have to pause
Tip for the stage 6 that I used: if you know how any major scale would sound like based on its first note, remember that first note and you can figure out the sequence by recreating the major scale with that tone (I was humming it) and compare and find the notes there. Three notes were a little difficult to me tho.
Edit: oh shit this exploded.
I think the idea of perfect pitch is that you don’t need to hum the notes. You can instantly identify them
@@osanilevich ye but this was testing if u have relative pitch not perfect pitch
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@@madsahren2208 ah my fault then
@@seekhimwithallyourheartand3358 nobody cares
i was actually surprised at how close i was on the last stages, missing only one of the notes by one note both times. then again i played piano for many years and easily recognised the scales, which likely helped
Grate shame
Same I was proud of myself lol
Same I got it off by one number
Same, but I've never played any instrument.
Same but i dont play any instrument
I haven't played the piano since I was 12 years old and was very surprised how much came back to me. Glad to know I am not tone deaf :D
I got the first relative pitch test right. I did pause the video and count it out but only really to check my first guess. The second relative pitch test, I guessed 3 but then messed up trying to figure out the next one. So definitely not perfect pitch 😂
I'm content knowing when I'm off key and being able to replicate a melody at least with my voice. What impresses me is players that immediately know instinctually what each key sounds like isolated from any context. I guess a lot of that comes with practice.
I learned techniques in my music theory class to identify intervals using popular and recognizable songs as reference. For example, “here comes the bride”=1-4, the Star Wars theme=1-5, “over the rainbow”=1-8, “take on me”=1-7, “jaws”=minor 2nd and so on. That really helped me develop a good ear for relative pitch.
I also use thus trick to fake an absolute pitch. I can recognize every c because Fly Me To The Moon begins with a c or g because Autum Leaves start with g
Thats cool effort but its pretty much if you have it or not
Our music theory class use "From the Halls of Montezuma" to remember the tonic, 3rd and 5th. "Here comes the Bride" was the Perfect 4th, "My BONny lies over the Ocean" was the Major 6th, and "Bali Hai" was for the Major 7th.
I must know what the other ones are
@@maximsokol4146 yes same! Except not with songs, my marching band used to have tuning note go off at the bell every day so eventually I just got used to what an F sounded like and from there I could use intervals to find any note in my head. Tedious but worked every time
I’ve been in choir for most of my life and still the solfège at the end was really fast. I had to pause the video for a good minute to find the correct notes but eventually I got them all right. People that feel bad about not getting those, please don’t feel bad! It takes a lot of practice to get those immediately like how they wanted it to be answered!
Or you can have perfect pitch like me.
It isn't a really useful skill tbh, I would much rather have better social skills or visual-spatial intelligence.
@@SubToJinx It’s useful if you’re going into that career! I’m thinking about going into musical theater.
Yes, that was the only one that took me a second, and I compose music as a hobby.
@@SubToJinx social skills are overrated 😅
Yes, it is just an extra test for the uninitiated who might not realize they have perfect pitch, it wasn't supposed to be apart of the Tone Deafness test, though they should have made it clearer that it was a different test.
The first two ones with the 8 notes i just didnt understand but once i understood i got the last one perfectly which made me so happy u have no idea
I got all these correct and named the interval
I can do the last stage, but I needed to hear the recording an extra time to identify the last one since it had an extra note. I found it easier to memorize the scale being played and vocalize both it and the mystery notes to see what sounded similar.
Y’a same
Me to
I got it because its the intro to still dre
@@sambotti1705 yup, just a 6th chord
Same
Never realized learning Harmonium for 2-3 years as a child would help me recognise the notes so well even after so long. Just missed one of the notes in both of the last questions. Surprised yet really happy
same, i had a go at the piano when i was 14/15 that was 4 years ago and i got everything right, i'm certain piano played a key part
Same, Harmonium was compulsory for about 3-4 years in my school and it helped even til today
There is no such thing as being tone deaf. The fact that people can speak through a phone and recognise who is talking takes way more processing than the difference between two notes. The whole concept of this test is about being able to sustain a note in your head which is vastly different to the idea that someone is unable to hear a change in pitch. Repeating and differentiating between two notes is a skill that anyone with ears and a brain can master.
People that have a good ear often repeat the sounds they hear in their head from a young age.
The more people to this the better they become at noticing difference in pitch, dynamics and all the rest. Anyone can start doing this and once it becomes a habit the skill will grow exponentially.
@@takuma359 how are you supposed to sustain a note in your head when you can’t hear it in your head? I can only (barely) remember notes by the way my muscles feel when I try to replicate the sound with my voice. Are most people actually hearing the notes in their head from memory?
@@phenylalaninemusic Yes, I can hear entire songs in my head actually although it's usually just the lead parts and I don't really hear the percussion unless it stands out or it's in front.
I can still hear the three notes playing in my head because I focused so hard on them.
I knew I wasnt tone deaf, but I did not know I could actually nail the numbers in the major scale. I dont know what to do with that knowledge now, but it strangely satisfying.
As an ear training teacher at university level, I want to explain more what's going on in the end of the video (relating numbers to pitches). A lot of people comment that this seems like a super-difficult memory-assignment. I can see how it might seem that way, but with musical training it's actually doesn't require much memory at all.
I never encourage my students to remember a melody as a number sequence, but I always ask them to articulate what they hear (for example as steps/numbers on a scale). With time, this will make the ear more analytical, and the musical memory more precise. So how does it work? Early on some students would for example think that the melody in the end of the video was 1-3-5 or 1-3-7. With more practice, they would know that step 5 sounds more stable and step 7 much more unstable. Finally they just know instinctively know the sound of step 6 itself. Eventually they would just "feel" 1-3-6 on a major scale.
With basic harmony training, it gets even easier. 1-3-6 is a minor chord (VI) in first inversion. With proper training, you just hear it. So you only have to remember one simple structure. Much like being told a single word and having to write it down. Not much memory required at all!
I played trombone in band for 8 years. For some reason I can instantly identify a major 3, 5, or 7, but for 2 4 6 it takes another second to relate it to one that I know.
I have a background in audio engineering, and I find it helps to pay attention to parts of the waveform; a high note will peak quicker and sustain for a shorter period of time due to the high frequency of vibration, while a low note will peak slower but sustain longer due to the lower frequency of vibration.
And it's the same for octaves; the same note in a higher octave will peak quicker, while the same note in a lower octave will sustain longer (why we consider a proper low note so impactful, and why it's so hard to sing a proper high note with weight; at least that's my personal experience as a baritone). From there it's figuring out the magnitudes in difference between notes/octaves.
We are talking about miniscule fractions of a second in differences, but once you're aware of those differences you can "feel" the differences between sounds (what one might consider "colors" of a note)
Did you just describe a memory technique and pretended it wasn't about memorizing?
@@EterPuralis It require some memory in the same way that writing down a spoken word require memory. Is that a memory task? It require memory, but it is even more about basic training in the "language" of tonal music. Would you call learning a new language a "memory technique"? When you master a new language, you will have a lot easier time remember the sounds from a spoken sentence. But the most important thing is not memory, but comprehension. I the same goes hear. It is about the ability to hear musical structures, rather than single sounds. It is so much more than a memory technique.
@@vegarguleng1748 As someone with a piss poor memory, YES I'd call that memory!
I knew someone in High school who I was in band with who had Perfect Pitch. We were at a concert rehearsal and the band director noticed the florescent lights were buzzing. He asked who could tell him the pitch and this guy raised his hand and said it’s a Bb and a few cents flat… and he got it spot on.
thats gotta be a blessing and a curse
what happens if he hears the among us music
And the band director said 'Yes exactly' because he wanted to pretend that he was perfect pitch. Really it was an F#.
@@ryank3747 What? Bb is 58 Hz, which checks out with fluorescent lights buzzing at 60 Hz
@@NoorquackerInd I was just making a joke, I have no clue what the actual pitch is.
Using answer options A and B was a fantastic idea and not confusing for anyone. Especially musicians with perfect pitch 😂
OMG im so glad I found this comment. I listened to it and was like... 'what!? That's a G# not an A!' XD I was so confused
I was so damn confused at the first exercise, like "it's clearly not an A, its a G flat, what is wrong with this video?" 😂😭
Unless you're not American and use do re me ...
@@mohamedalitoufahi6295 english countries use cdefgabc, not just america, do re mi is just intervals
@@mohamedalitoufahi6295 I'm actually French, so I usually use "do ré mi" but since it was an english video, I was adapting 😂
i was tone deaf as a child it is nice to see how close i was to get them all correct :)
Nailed it. 👊🏻
They lost me as soon as they started doing sequences. I can usually tell if a note is out of place, but it's always a guessing game to determine which note is the correct one. Sometimes the repetition messes with my sense of what it should sound like. Having sheet music is very helpful because of this.
Not to mention the echo of the sustained note is completely missing during the example and is the majority of the sound on the actual test. Many flaws show through from just a small mishandling of how unfamiliar what they're testing is to the majority of people.
Hearing the intervals on the last stage is much easier if you are able to identify songs that have that interval change. The most common change in western music is a 4th or in terms of the video, that 3-6 change for the final test, and the easiest song I found to remember it by is "Here Comes the Bride". A good song to recognize a 5th interval is The Beatles "Let It Be" and more specifically, it's first two chords. A traditional song for quickly identifying a 3rd is "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow". There are hundreds of songs out there for trying to identify intervals quickly so if you don't know these songs look some up, you'd be surprised at the quantity of songs that use these intervals as the basis to their whole progression. There are also many more intervals than the ones that I referenced here which add a lot of color to music out there but these are just a few of the common ones I thought I'd point out if you wanted to find a way to start learning about relative pitch and how to achieve it!
yo this helps alot thanks
How interesting! What other intervals are there to know, and can please give song examples for these?
@@aginnaginn5039 a good one is the (da da da) duuh DAA from star wars, which is a perfect fifth or the alternating notes from the jaws theme is a semitone :)
@@aginnaginn5039 Well there are 26 written intervals (halfof them are redundant) in western music so coming I couldn't give you a song for all of them but some interesting intervals for adding color into music that you may have heard like a diminished 5th/augmented 4th (also known as a tritone) can be found in Jimi Henderix's "Purple Haze" and it's opening. Some more interesting intervals that I like when writing music are major and minor 6th's, I don't know any songs off the top of my head, but it's usually a chord that I like to use when moving towards the end of a song in a 6 - 7 - 8/1 to build tension and resolve it. If you are interested in intervals, then I recommend going to Wikipedia and going to their Music Intervals page and playing all of the sound files to see if you may recognize it in a song you may know. And start seeing if you can correctly identify the interval in a song you know. Hope I helped!
It just reminded me of Dr. DRE. 🤣
so in stage 6 I didn’t get any right except the last one. Very proud of myself bc my piano teacher would have me do exercises like that and always said how good I was at them!
I wasn't expecting to pass this since I
a. Can't read sheet music for the life of me
and b. Actually don't even know how to tell you what note you're playing (like whether it's a, b, c, etc.)
But I got 100%. I kinda just imagined where I would have to fret my guitar for each note and got it that way.
i thought i was tone deaf, but thanks for the test.
Yup, now I know I just suck at singing and have no other excuse!
@@patrickr8400 thats what i was looking for, at least I can impove. People that are tone deaf are likely not going to get better like how people without perfect wont be able to develop it
I'm a little late, but for those of you who want to improve on the numbers part:
A known trick taught in music is to sing musical syllables (Solfege), and use them subconsciously whilst hearing the intervals. For your major scales, such as in the video, you have Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, and Do. Try it yourself and you'll have a blast lol
P.S You can also remember sounds of different pitch distances by relating to a song. My music teacher loves starwars, so Going from Do to Sol would be like the star wars theme :D
Oh crap I forgot about those... I loved doing that with my piano teacher
I did the lazy way and just remembered the first note and last note then pictured where the notes in between were... sounds complicated
It was
The first two doing it I was panicked and didnt even do lol
I use 'Mary Had A Little Lamb,' which is even more useful when you get into identifying notes. The version I remember is simply B - A - G - A - B - B - B - A - A - A - B - D - D - B - A - G - A - B - B - B - B - A - A - B - A - G. Knowing just this gives you a pretty good understanding of the 4 notes, C is easy to tell with practice, and E and F are a semi-tone apart. Star Wars is a great song to help, too.
I was already doing this. Although I have been a choir kid since I was 3 (16 almost 17 now) so it makes sense.
Mommy made me mash my m n Ms oh no
I did this but I hummed the tune. I didn't read this comment
We always learn like this instead of letters in my country lol
Made it all the way to the end, yayy
Well being a classical music teacher's daughter really paid off I see
It took me way to long to realize they weren't actually the notes a and b. Thought I was going crazy when they were doing octaves. I was like "why are they not both A"
I agree the use of letters there was confusing at first, but just fyi, none of the A vs. B questions were an octave. The second one was a minor 7th which is pretty close but if you thought any of them were any octave, go back and listen again.
well as someone with perfect pitch (pretty impressive, i know) i found this so easy that i could do it with the video muted. guess that's just one of the many benefits that come with 70 years of harmonica playing. i have been playing the harmonica since i was 3. i'm 52 now and i still have retained my perfect pitch even after 400 years !!!
well as someone with perfect pitch (pretty impressive, i know) i found this so easy that i could do it with the video muted. guess that's just one of the many benefits that come with 70 years of harmonica playing. i have been playing the harmonica since i was 3. i'm 52 now and i still have retained my perfect pitch even after 400 years !!!
well as someone with perfect pitch (pretty impressive, i know) i found this so easy that i could do it with the video muted. guess that's just one of the many benefits that come with 70 years of harmonica playing. i have been playing the harmonica since i was 3. i'm 52 now and i still have retained my perfect pitch even after 400 years !!!
well as someone with perfect pitch (pretty impressive, i know) i found this so easy that i could do it with the video muted. guess that's just one of the many benefits that come with 70 years of harmonica playing. i have been playing the harmonica since i was 3. i'm 52 now and i still have retained my perfect pitch even after 400 years !!!
well as someone with perfect pitch (pretty impressive, I know) I found this so easy I could do it with the video muted. guess that's just one of the many benefits that come with 70 years of harmonica playing. I have been playing the harmonica since I was 3. I'm 52 now and I still retained my perfect pitch even after 400 years !!!
This comment broke my Ears(mind)
I got everything correct. I am a 3 years piano player so I do have a good ear.
ya boi got all of them 💪💪
ive also been playing violin and piano for a decade so that did help
I don't think memorizing and repeating note sequences is really a good judge of tone deafness/perfect pitch tbh, it's more about knowing your scales which doesn't always come naturally to people. A better test for pitch sense imo would be to repeat a note that was played, though you can't really do interactive prompts like that in video format. But it could be a good exercise when you're using your voice or tuning an instrument!
EDIT: Made it more obvious that this is my opinion, since that wasn't clear enough apparently
I feel like understanding whether two notes were in a row on a scale and judging how close the notes are is more than just memorization. If it went 1-5, you should be able to recognize that it wasn't 1-2 if you've had musical background
I failed test 6 rip
That is not perfect pitch. Perfect pitch is the ability to receive and correctly identify pitch.
Yeah giving me two different sounds and then asking me which one I hear is pretty easy and I don't think that shows if I'm tone deaf or not. I think better would have been to play a low A and B, then play a higher pitched A or B and then see if I could recognize which one it was because I don't think I could. Once this video got to the number scale, I was completely off and I couldn't guess anywhere close to the correct answer.
This is just a memorizing game bro
First test: "Is this note A or B?"
My perfect pitch: "A"
Video: "B"
Me: "...Oh. That was referring to... oh."
I actually yelled "A, I mean B" at the screen
Ikr it’s so easy that you overthink it
Really fucked with my perfect pitch to assign different letters to different notes.
when I was younger, I noticed I could clearly hear the beat of a song even if the singer's voice was loud. I could clearly follow the beat
I also have great listening skills alhamdulillah
i’ve been in choir for 7 years and although acing this is the only thing i have to show for it that’s enough for me
As someone with perfect pitch, I found it slightly confusing that the test called the notes A and B. For the first one, I saw that and was expecting to hear an A or a B. The second note was an A (didn't notice that there were two notes at first because I had my volume pretty low), so I picked A and then I was very confused when it said the correct answer was B. Turns out that B was A. Who knew perfect pitch could make you fail a pitch perception test?
This tells us a lot about hit game among us
Hmm it’s a bit weird. You wrote a whole paragraph but I can’t seem to find anyone that asked.
@@MrAceAwesome1 no one asked for you to live either, yet here you are.
@@MrAceAwesome1 I asked
I thought the same thing. Thought I lost my perfect pitch for a sec…
The part where i only had to indentify one note on a scale of 10, i struggled more, than when there were multiple notes... i got 1-5, but i was torn between 1-3-5 and 1-3-6 on the last one. Im proud of myself!
I had no clue for the 5 and 1-5 but was certain for 1-3-6 mainly because it didn't sound like an arpeggio and locked the number one in my head
The thing is that every scale played is a major scale, which means that 1-3-5 would be a broken chord for that major scale
By it not sounding like a major chord, it is quite obvious that it is 1-3-6
@@geordiepunchingahorse423 I think i actually came to the conclusion that it was 136, before it was revealed, but for a half a second, i was torn between that and 135, because i didnt really notice that the frequency difference is the same for all notes, and i watched this video with the assumption that im tone deaf, and i wasnt confident in making deductions on that shaky ground. I kind of assumed that the answer could be 135, but cuz im tone deaf i hear a bigger gap between 3 and 5, but at the last milisecond of that half a second i decided to just go with what i think i heard.
@@Crummerce dr.dre
Lol for the first going up and going down one I forgot to pause it and I didn’t get a chance, the 1-5 one I forgot to pause as well. The 1-3-6 I got the 1-6, but I guessed 1-2-6 instead
Humming the scale to figure out which notes were what numbers helped. I could associate it better
i have perfect pitch (as in you can play any note and i can play it back), and my boyfriend is completely tone deaf. i feel that we make a strong team.
Also just a heads up tone deafness is only in 0.2% of the global population and is quite rare. Perfect pitch is 1 in
1000 (more common then first thought) quansa pitch (the ability to notice pitches from pulling notes from another song) is also a thing. Remember that you could ALSO have perfect pitch that's on an different toning scale.
Guess I am in that 0.2% of the world population, and to think I dreamed of becoming a musician as a kid
What is your source for the 0.2% figure?
No place online seems to be saying that.
@@jc626 idk what their source is but 1 in 20 is definitely far too high. True tone deafness (the medical condition that makes you unable to learn, sing and identify the relationship between notes at all) is quite rare.
some people would call my mom tone deaf but she is only unable to sing, possibly because she's never learned how to utilize her vocal cords before. She can identify scales, replicate melodies and know if something is out of tune though.
Bruh wtf is quansa pitch LOL
Quansa pitch is definitely something I have. Perfect pitch is also most likely for me, spoken Chinese is a tonal language; tones are essential for proper communication, I'm not learning this language but from what I hear I can pretty accurately notice the tones of words without practice.
I think the difficulty with determining perfect pitch is that some common examples of perfect pitch include being able to name the note that was made. You don't test a child's ability to differentiate consonants by using the alphabet if they're still learning it. They don't know which sounds go to which letter yet and some letters can look similar to each other like some some sounds can. That doesn't necessarily mean that you can't differentiate them from each other. However that then goes into relative pitch and not perfect pitch. I think people use perfect pitch around in contexts that still involve musical training to the point that the concept has become blurred. If the requirement is that you can put a name to the note, then you can't be born with that. Even replicating a pitch with your voice still requires some degree of vocal training because you are learning how to mimic the note. The ability of perfect pitch is so intertwined with musical ability that it's very difficult to determine that you have it without involving some degree of training or musical intuition.
Edit: overblew it when talking about advanced training.
Nope......:) I have known some kids that had perfect pitch with no advanced music training even though they could sing. Anyway, perfect pitch is not the ultimate skill of all, even though it is amazing to see people with it....:)
if you do solid musical training from around 4-6 years old it is very likely that you will gain perfect pitch
Just look up The Crosbys channel, all 3 of their kids have perfect pitch (tested at 3 years old, without musical notes)
You are right. This video is an example of RELATIVE pitch, not perfect pitch. 🎹
i thought so too. This was definitely more relative pitch. i forget which round it was, but when the note was played, i immediately recognized it as a g but didn't have enough time to figure out which number it was. then for the intervals, i could hear do-mi-sol but not know the notes or numbers and so got it wrong.
awesome
i failed the sequece tests because i can't remember the notes, but i would certainly be able to tell which is which if i could
The last one is incredibly easy to recognise for any pianist, it's the first arpeggiated chord in still D.R.E. Every pianist has played it at least once
Im a musician myself and i recognized it immediately and thougt that the song would be played now as a joke :D
Yeah. I’ve even played a dre/megalovania mix before ._.
I THOUGHT I RECOGNIZED IT OMG
I've never played it but I've heard it eveeywhere so I could know what was the note without even playing it
I didn’t realize that at first but after hearing it again I heard it 😂
So I am not tone deaf… but I feel the scale portion is going a bit fast… to those who never had musicale training it might prove a bit fast to remember the positions of the tones within the scale. Yet a clear difference is audible, the memory of its location hasn’t been established and therefor it’s impossible to anyone who doesn’t have perfect audible memory.
That's the point, the last part is supposed to be extremely difficult if you don't have formal training, UNLESS you have perfect pitch. If you naturally have perfect pitch that last part will still be easy even with no training.
@@jessicastjames6202 If I gave you a sequence 1=D, 2=Ö, 3=A, 4=E, 5=G, 6=X, 7=P and 8=R, then asked you to tell me what AGD is, you'd have a difficult time remembering it's 351 despite you immediately recognizing letters from one another... or are you saying you think it's super difficult to tell letters apart because you can't remember the corresponding number I assigned to each one?
For example, I could tell the first sound was on the higher end, not the highest, but I'd need to hear 5, 6 and 7 again to remember what they were specifically.
I agree. I was 1 off on each of the tones consistently which can only suggest its going to fast.
try singing do re mi fa so la... out loud when looking at the numbers..
@@jessicastjames6202 wow then I most likely have perfect pitch. Thank you that makes me happy. I've been told that before but it still makes me smile
Got up until the last two tests with the multinotes. I’ll take it.
I answered 1-4 instead of 1-5 and 1-4-6 instead of 1-3-6 and this is making me want to train my ear to get better at this