How good is your musical awareness?

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How good is your musical awareness?

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Check this out - it's a study being carried out by one of the universities in my home city. I'll wager a lot of you are surprised at the results - at least I hope you are, otherwise I'm just musically retarded!

It basically plays two musical phrases and you have to say whether they are identical or not... There are 30 phrases, and the test takes about 4 minutes - worth a look (listen) anyways...

http://www.delosis.com/listening/measure.html

(Post results if you dare - I got 22/30, but I'm a tad drunk on the vodka - maybe I'll try with tomorrow's hangover!)

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(Oh - doesn't seem to like Firefox, so use IE - bah!)
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A few views, no replies...

"Beware coward, I live!"

Go on, take the plunge! (Or are you all practising until you hit 30/30...?)
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It was apparently harder than i thought, Allthough i had 2 kids screaming in the backgroud ;) :)
I got 23/30 :oops:
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Jax wrote:A few views, no replies...

"Beware coward, I live!"

Go on, take the plunge! (Or are you all practising until you hit 30/30...?)
I'm gonna have a go later @ home - I may get some funny looks if I do it @ work!!!

I'll publish the results and let you know how great/crap I was/am ;) Is there a prize for the highest score, BTW? :P

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trace wrote:It was apparently harder than i thought, Allthough i had 2 kids screaming in the backgroud ;) :)
I got 23/30 :oops:
Now what have I told you about torturing your kids?... :wink:

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26/30 here...
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Post by Pex `Mahoney` Tufvesson »

29/30 8)

But I must admit that the test (whatever its purpose now was...) surprised me. The "wrong ones" were always just the pitch of the note wrong, never the tempo or note duration. And when it was wrong, it was always "off scale". If I knew that before I started the test, I guess I'd have 30/30... :wink: And, it was never the first example that was off scale, only the second.

Well, well... preparing oneself by singing a lot of a cappella should probably be considered cheating! :D
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29 here. Quite a good idea for a test, actually :)
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Hmm, maybe I should try again, sans-vodka.

My missus got a better score and she's tone deaf :|

(Oh - I also got some email from them asking me to participate in the 'next level' of the test - I'll see what it is - perhaps it's reserved for people who got poor scores - like me :()

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Did this some weeks ago and got 29.
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30.
(But I think it was really easy cos - like Mahoney said - all different notes are out of scale and so they sound plain wrong (it almost hurts))
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29/30
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28, eew it tricked me in the beginning because I was also listening for tempo changes and psycho-acoustically I was listening for something else.
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Lagerfeldt wrote:28, eew it tricked me in the beginning because I was also listening for tempo changes and psycho-acoustically I was listening for something else.
Me too. I once saw a very interesting thing on a show called "Brainiac", where lots of people were passing a box from person to person, and you had to concentrate on the box. So I did.

Then they showed the clip again, and you were told not to concentrate on the box any more: and there was a man in a bee costume comes into the shot and leaves after a few seconds. 80% of people apparently don't notice him while they're watching the box!

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