this went from a tone deaf test to a memory test real quick

The mere fact I’m not a tone deaf is enough for me.

*Cries in bad short term memory*

This escelated quickly lol, went from being told I'm most likely not tone deaf, to overwhelmed

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

I got as far as ruling myself out as "tone deaf". The moment the scale was broken out, I was lost.

The difficulty went from 1 to 100 really quick

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 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.

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.

After 14 years of playing piano I’m glad to announce that I’m not tome deaf yayyy

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.

Huge props for not making a dumb video , this was great straight to the point and no bullshit.

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.)

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 not tone deaf but the last ones got me, because it was using numbers instead of do re mi fa sol la ti or do.

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

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!

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 😂

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

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.

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!

I play guitar and this test was so easy to pass, anyone who plays musical instrument or sings well won't fail this test.

I literally got the first one wrong. I laughed my ass off

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.

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!

doing choir every week where we learn to read music and sing the melody ON SIGHT... you get pretty good at this.

Im a pianist, this made me A LOT more confident

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...

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

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 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

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.

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.

I got them all first try without any pauses. I don’t play music but still found this very easy.

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!

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!

I was killing it till the sequences part came💀

I always said I can't play by ear but your test begs to differ. I like it😊

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

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.

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 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!

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.

Ok once it got to the part with the numbers I bombed so hard. Definitely something I need to work on 🤣

ya boi got all of them 💪💪 ive also been playing violin and piano for a decade so that did help

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

i did violin suzuki method when i was younger! i still got it WOOO

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 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.

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. 😊

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.

spent many years in choir and have always had an ear for music, so i just watched this video for fun as i already knew i wasn’t tone def lol but it was actually really interesting

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 😂

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

my parents are musicians, i was in choir and orchestra for years, i play 6 instruments, and i still struggled with the solfege at the end. (the 1-8 sequence for the unaware). don't feel bad if you didn't get it, especially if you're not a professionally trained musician.

I watched this on my phone and I identified the difference by the different vibration each note made through my phone

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.

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!

Seeing the “you are likely not tone deaf” put me at ease I always thought my hearing was off 😅

I got all of them! Proud I didnt have to pause

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

Using answer options A and B was a fantastic idea and not confusing for anyone. Especially musicians with perfect pitch 😂

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 got them all right first try but I also did band throughout elementary, middle, and high school so I kinda knew all of the chords and stuff to know where the pitches were (and what “number” they would be). Anyone who has studied music theory should be able to figure it out, so I’m not sure if it’s an accurate “tone deaf” test

i thought i was tone deaf, but thanks for the test.

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

I got it correct first time around that’s pretty chill 😂

I'm have absolute pitch, so... Thank you, because I passed the test completely

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!

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

I was so close 😭. I said 1-4-6 for the last one instead of 1-3-6. Still super fun!

Made it all the way to the end, yayy

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.

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 !!!

I got them all right, cool. I used to play an Instrument when I was younger though.

yeah baby all the way up! good to know my time in my choir hasn't failed me LOL

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"

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.

Nailed it. 👊🏻

Well being a classical music teacher's daughter really paid off I see

I've never had proper training, but I've been trying to learn instruments by ear since I was a kid. At the numbers part i was always off by one 😅 but I know it's harder than the rest so I'm glad I was at least close, I plan on working on this and learning theory too

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

Ok I got all right, nice 👍

I got all but the last one stumped me, i already knew i wasnt tone deaf lol!

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 wish I was tone deaf so I could rhyme orange with banana.

This test is more indicative of memory. In person tests are easier to test for PP in that you can usually play the notes on your own as needed, but in turn the note you are asked about is not going to sound identical, you have to thus identify by pitch alone, and not by reproductive memory. As in your assessor has a different piano to you, they sound similar because of note structure, but are different and thus require your ears to identify the sound quality and not your memory. Identifying the exact sound of B as the exact sound of B is good, but knowing a B is a B when it isn't the exact sound is more going to illuminate your pitch assessing abilities.

I found this really fun and easy! Surprisingly id didnt need to memorize rhe sound of notes in thw last few. Somehow i just knew!

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.

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?

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.

Aced it! I've been playing guitar for 14 years though so that helps lol