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i got 75%

― jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 17 November 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

81.6!

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 17 November 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

I got 83.3%

So this is what Jake Mandell has been up to, I haven't heard from him in ages.

― Jena (JenaP), Friday, 17 November 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

86.1! go, me!

― Good-Time Slim, Uncle Doobie, and the Great 'Frisco Freak-Out (sixteen sergeants, Friday, 17 November 2006 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

78.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 17 November 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

94.4%.

― strom (strom), Friday, 17 November 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

83.3%. Everything I got wrong was saying that two that were the same were different. Seems that my memory was making the more arrhythmic ones more rhythmic and, occasionally, the atonal ones more tonal.

― Merdeyeux Merdeyeux Merdeyeux (Merdeyeux Merdeyeux Merdeyeux), Friday, 17 November 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

86.1 as well...and i know of two errors i made out of impatience
Fun fun fun

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Friday, 17 November 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

89.9%

I think it's all those aural tests I had to do when I played musical instruments.

It would be interesting to see how the results break down in terms of people with musical training vs those without.

― jellybean (jellybean), Friday, 17 November 2006 01:51 (nineteen years ago)

I took guitar lessons for a few years, and I've taught myself some music theory and done a little ear-training. Wish I had more musical training, though -- I'm currently trying to figure out a way I can sneak into a music program at some college somewhere despite the fact that I had never played an instrument until I was 16 years old.

― Good-Time Slim, Uncle Doobie, and the Great 'Frisco Freak-Out (sixteen sergeants, Friday, 17 November 2006 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

88.9% and I'm DRUNK and I haven't had a PROPER music lesson for OVER FIVE years, so THERE! :-)

I'm trying to play in bands with people at uni, but they're all too busy for me :(

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 17 November 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

77.8% ...with shite laptop speakers. :P

― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Friday, 17 November 2006 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

86.1% while on the phone and cooking! i think i double clicked one too.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 17 November 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear, I'm the low score so far, and I'm not surprised:
66.7% Correct

I did well in many places but there was one patch where I was wrong on 8 out of 9. Wonder if it's possible to have tonal problems with specific instruments.

FWIW, I have minimal musical training (a year of tuba in 8th grade, a semester of intro voice at college) and have absolutely no "concept" of notes; i.e., I couldn't tell you what a middle C sounds like, nor would I recognize one as such. Great quality for a sometime critic to have, eh?

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 17 November 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

91.7% - I guess the three semesters of conservatory study had some effect.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 17 November 2006 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

Course, like the drunkard above, I ain't had a "proper music lesson" in probably SIX years. So there.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 17 November 2006 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

-- Merdeyeux Merdeyeux Merdeyeux (sonic_nurs...), November 17th, 2006.

Exact same thing happened to me. I think on one or two I was almost straining to hear something different because the sequence sounded so simple.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 17 November 2006 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

86.1%

I'm not sure what it means, but I've never had any musical training.

― brightscreamer (brightscreamer), Friday, 17 November 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

Saw this posted elsewhere recently. I think it's pretty dumb, and doesn't test tonedeafness at all. A lot of them had phrasing differences. It's really a musical memory test.

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Friday, 17 November 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

But obviously one who was truly tone-deaf could not perform well on this test. Tone-deafness would by definition preclude musical memory, don't you think?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 17 November 2006 03:20 (nineteen years ago)

And also "musical memory" requires the ability to hear distinct intervals and pitches, does it not?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 17 November 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's definitely testing an intuitive process, since the information comes so rapidly that you can't really consciously process it at all -- you just have to condense it into a usable form as fast as possible, trace the overall contour of the notes, and then notice if something zigs where it should've zagged.

― Good-Time Slim, Uncle Doobie, and the Great 'Frisco Freak-Out (sixteen sergeants, Friday, 17 November 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

Actually maybe I'm wrong:

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.

So I guess I don't understand what the fuck he means.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 17 November 2006 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

69.4%

I once took a guitar lesson in the fourth grade. :(

― naus de lekkerste..! (Robert T), Friday, 17 November 2006 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

91.7%

handicap: 5 beers and half a scotch
unfair advantage: $200 headphones

― songs and ballads of the bituminous miners (sanskrit), Friday, 17 November 2006 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

i think all this does is test how many people post to ilm drunk

― adam j (In Place of Something Clever), Friday, 17 November 2006 07:39 (nineteen years ago)

oh, and i got 80.6. as a musician, it would have been cool to say i got higher, but then again, i'm not that good of a musician.

― adam j (In Place of Something Clever), Friday, 17 November 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

83.3%, but I might try again when I'm more awake.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 17 November 2006 07:58 (nineteen years ago)

I think this test is too easy.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 17 November 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

78.8%, but I don't care.

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Friday, 17 November 2006 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

80.6 also.. i should stop programming and go back to playing. Its the MP3:s and the midi and the modern lifestyle. Tomorrow i´ll turn the volume down and go to the gym. I will ace this test.

― jon person (jon person), Friday, 17 November 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

91.7% again

― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Friday, 17 November 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

I got 91.7%

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

HI FIVE!

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

91.7% on crappy speakers. if only i could play an instrument competently, i could use this for something.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

I thought some of them were kind of obvious - like the the first one would sound right musically and the second one would have this obvious, clunker note that jumps out at you.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

I got 88.9% and I am rubbish at music (e.g. I can't tune a guitar by ear cos I can't really tell whether one note is lower or higher than another when they get too close).

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

80.6%. Some of these are really hard.

― braveclub (braveclub), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

94.4% on the retake...fresh energy before a full day at the keyboard makes a big difference, as would sobriety.

i guess all those years of piano have paid off: i got a decent score on an anonymous computer test so that complete strangers couldn't give a damn. Mom was right...

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

83.3 for me!

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

someone please convince Geir to take this..

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

I have a friend I want to take this test. When we're on elevators he can tell me what note or pitch or whatever the hum of the machinery is making and then with his voice harmonize with it in major or minor chords. This might be something anybody who knows music can do but I am so completely retarded that this parlor trick astounds me.

― Period period period (Period period period), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

J.Grizzle: Maybe you and me should team up and make some world class musician music?

― strom (strom), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

I had a friend who would do that at the most random times, like after diving into a pool--try to tell you the basic note of your entry in the water. I called BS every time, till he went to Berklee..then thought maybe he knew what he was talking about.

Maybe you and me should team up and make some world class musician music?

I would play music with anyone or anything right now...I'm stranded in the badlands with a new Baritone Jag and no one to *jam* with.

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

The pitch of mechanical hum is usually a lot easier to determine than the pitch of a sploosh in the water.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

^^ Flimshaw!! ^^

if you only knew my girth. evidently, i enter the water with a sonorous G#

(i really don't recall..but hence my calling of BS everytime)

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

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