"This won't tune!"

[asterroc]

Test your sense of pitch. The quiz has 26 midi song clips, each around 10sec long. They come from US children's tunes, US patriotic songs, and Christmas carols. If you did not grow up in the US chances are you will have difficulty just b/c of familiarity w/ the songs. After you hear each, you have to pick whether it was played correctly, or incorrectly. I got 26/26 correct.

Comments

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

26/26.

What particularly surprised me is that there were duplicates of some of the songs--e.g., there was a right one and a wrong one of "Daisy, Daisy". (I don't know if everyone gets the same clips or if they're in the same order, but in my case they were #6 and #20.) Seems like this would taint the results somewhat; I know that I first marked #6 wrong because it didn't sound like what I remembered, even though it sounded 'right' in the sense of following the usual musical conventions.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I noticed that as well, though I didn't take note of whether they were always right or wrong - I was speculating that maybe there were multiple "wrong" versions to help determine the extent of the person's poor pitch.