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yes you are supposed to be able to tell even if you don't know the tunes
my daughter who is 9 took the test, she said she only recognized about 50% of the tunes, yet she scored 100%
although the test is likely skewed towards people with experience with western musical styles and scales
I'm confused as to how you could get anything but 26/26... The tunes which are "wrong" aren't subtly off, they're grossly distorted - to the degree where on some of them it's hard to tell what the tune was meant to be, but you know that you're listening to some kind of godawful mess, and the answer must therefore be "No".
Well, for one, you could not know the tunes and think it's all random chromatic scale piano playing and thus all played « correctly ».
Oh and from Northern Ireland, so UK.
I'm confused as to how you could get anything but 26/26... The tunes which are "wrong" aren't subtly off, they're grossly distorted - to the degree where on some of them it's hard to tell what the tune was meant to be, but you know that you're listening to some kind of godawful mess, and the answer must therefore be "No".
I got 21/26, as of my comment the lowest score in the comment section here, but the website said it was a fine sense of pitch. Honestly I thought I'd get less than 50% before I began. I also did not recognise some of the melodies. Some also sounded right, but cut out the last tone. Not sure if those are supposed to be counted as correct or incorrect so I did a 50/50 on those.
Those should be counted as correct.
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I only recognized 3 of the tunes, but still got 26 perfect score. Nothing to do with familiarity with the material, just whether you can hear notes being in the correct key or not.
That's my point. You can't really know if they are correct. You just guess, if the notes are fit or not to the song. We could argue that what really tests is the listeners ability to recognize dissonant notes if all songs in the test don't have dissonant notes in them. But then its not a pitch sense test. There was one other test that I took that I see more accurate than this one: http://tonometric.com/adaptivepitch/…
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Well, for one, you could not know the tunes and think it's all random chromatic scale piano playing and thus all played « correctly ».
If you have some musical knowledge or experience it's pretty easy to tell which tunes are wrong even if you've never heard them. Assuming you have knowledge of the western musical tradition, e.g. modes, major/minor keys, etc, it's usually pretty clear where a melody should be going even if you haven't heard it (i.e. it will probably remain in the tonal centre of the piece).
Answers: http://pastebin.com/yWjhWtsm (they are embedded in the javascript function 'countChecked')
I'm confused, are we supposed to tell whether it matches any Major/Minor diatonic scale? This sounds more like a melodic/scale test, not a pitch test, I was excepting it would ask something more like whether the instrument is well-tuned or whether a fretless instrument plays correctly. For the curious, I've analyzed the first 5 songs with a program I'm developing, using the default C Major scale, here's the result :…
That's neat. I know little about music. Would it be close to correct to say that this program finds the notes (hz, fourier) and checks if they the progression fit some predetermined pattern. eg. B4 must be followed by one of X1,X2,..., osv. ?
> EDIT: nevermind, ...
Does this mean there's songs which the program fails to classify?
It would be interesting to see the output of the program for all the songs.