That test was ****ing reeruned. I made it through 4 pairs and couldn't take it any more.

I had a friend with perfect pitch in college, and for her, there was no screwing up of any notes because nothing was subjective. A note was concrete, like reading it on a page - there wasn't any "I think that's an Ab". She could listen to very complex musical passages and name every note perfectly - it was wild. That's my understanding of perfect pitch, and that if someone really has it, they won't be wrong. It's something they were born with, not something they learned.

People with really good relative pitch can almost fake having perfect pitch, but they aren't always right, and it takes a lot more effort than someone with true perfect pitch.

It's possible I have some misconceptions due to only knowing one person with perfect pitch, but your quote caught me as odd...

This. While there is some pitch involved in some of the samples, it certainly is not all about pitch.

I have tar pitch.

And I almost got run over once, too.

FAX

Yep. I've also known two people with true perfect pitch back in my conservatory days. Frankly, I don't believe either one of these guys. I'd probably believe good or very good relative pitch, but perfect pitch... no, I just don't buy it. The two that I knew, you could name a note and they could sing it, no hesitation, and be dead on, every single time. There's no "half step" off, ever.

Dane doesn't lie

Try me. When I was at Eastman and we had sight-singing exams, I got all the melodies, but I had trouble with singing in solfegg (do re mi fa sol) because a note wasn't a "do" or a "ti" but it was a B or an Eb. That's how I thought of each note, and going out of my way to make the conversion to solfegg was a complete drag.

The only time I've gotten pitches incorrect was when somebody played a random glob on the piano and I might have confused a D in one octave with another in the upper or lower octave. These were 20-note clusters, so the mistake is understandable.

They need some sort of a meter for lyrics comprehension. Because, I can tell you, I'm wrong about lyrics about 90% of the time. I have no idea what it is, but I am the classic buffoon who gets the lyrics wrong to any given song. I wish I could remember a full compendium of the more hilarious mistakes I've made; one I CAN remember is a recent song from The White Stripes. After an argument and an ensuing Google search, I realized I was wrong. The lyrics are:
I've been waiting for the doorbell, when ya gonna ring it, (when ya gonna ring it?)

I thought it was-- and I'm completely serious about this-- I've been waiting for the gold, man, when ya gonna bring it (When ya gonna bring it?)

Well, I do NOT have perfect pitch, and I got 9 out 10 sight-singing exams, and probably 8 out of 10 solfège (which is a complete drag; on that, we agree :D).

28/30, 28/30 vOv

Always thought I was decentish at um, whatever this is measuring. But yeah, I barely even realize there are lyrics sometimes.

This is so fascinating.

I have little musical aptitude, but I certainly know that my singing absolutely sucks. I hear the song, try to repeat it, and go "wow, dude, I suck." So I think I'm good on the tonedeaf thing. :D

It's also what shocks me when I watch people suck it up on American Idol. I mean, I'm terrible, but i KNOW I'm terrible. These people genuinely seem to have no clue how bad they are. WTF?

Oh **** that. I did part 1...and now I have to do 30 more tones? **** THAT!

No kidding.

I exited, with prejudice. And to that note (pun intended) I also think that this test isn't testing perfect pitch, nor relative pitch. It's a short term memory test. And mine is horrible, especially when the notes are a-tonal and seemingly random.

I have decent relative pitch. But I can't just pick out a note and tell you what it is. Not really anyway. What I CAN do, is imagine a song I know well, like "Hotel California" and imagine the color of the top b in the first chord and then derive whatever note I hear based on the interval from that note. It's weird. But that's pretty much the only I can do it.

Like, as I was typing this, I was hearing the bass line to "Ain't No Sunshine" in my head. A---E-G-A-------. I can "hear" those notes, but only if they're in context with the song. Maybe I just never worked on it. Weird. I also hear them in the octaves of the guitar much easier, since that's my instrument.

Yeah, same here... eff that noise.

I'm pretty sure my best friend in college was tone deaf. It really blew my mind how he could be singing along in the car and the singer would go up and his pitch would go down...... he had no idea how off he was.