Music Are you tonedeaf? - Page 3

**alnorth** · 10-03-2010, 12:06 AM

About 5% of all people are tonedeaf. Most of these people also have no idea, except maybe a lingering suspicion after friends or family gently tell them they cant sing worth a damn. Music apparently sounds different to them than to the rest of us. For these people, if a note is slightly off, due to a hearing defect, they simply cant tell. That is also why you get these hilariously bad singers on american idol who are convinced they can sing, because to their ears, they are repeating what they heard from the radio.

Here's a couple of tonedeafness tests I found, which also functions as a way to possibly tell if your sense of pitch is above average. If you are near the bottom of the bell curve, you might be tonedeaf. If you have a perfect score, you might (probably not) be one of the rare 1 in 10,000 people with perfect pitch. Where do you score?

Pants · 10-04-2010, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!

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.

I'm pretty sure that's me, too. I never sing though, because it's too embarrassing even when there's no one around.

/sigh

**DaneMcCloud** · 10-04-2010, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Metrolike

I'm pretty sure that's me, too. I never sing though, because it's too embarrassing even when there's no one around.

/sigh

That's a bummer. Did you ever take piano lessons? Personally, I think that should be a mandatory requirement for children, whether they like it or not. IMO, it's just as important as mathematics and reading at a young age because music is not only math, it's repetition, which is good training for young minds.

**Fire Me Boy!** · 10-04-2010, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

That's a bummer. Did you ever take piano lessons? Personally, I think that should be a mandatory requirement for children, whether they like it or not. IMO, it's just as important as mathematics and reading at a young age because music is not only math, it's repetition, which is good training for young minds.

Totally agree, but I'd add that music includes math (durations, fractions), language (written music is essentially a foreign language), technical aspects (embouchure and fingerings)... experts say it's the only thing in school that uses both sides of the brain.

Pants · 10-04-2010, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

That's a bummer. Did you ever take piano lessons? Personally, I think that should be a mandatory requirement for children, whether they like it or not. IMO, it's just as important as mathematics and reading at a young age because music is not only math, it's repetition, which is good training for young minds.

Nope, I can't read music or anything. I just pretty much listen to it. To be fair, I did hear differences in the test that the OP linked, but I didn't feel like going further after the first 30. But yeah, music is a huge weakness for me.

RaiderH8r · 10-04-2010, 02:55 PM

Am I tone deaf? Yes.
Am I a god damned board certified crotch rocking stadium filling shower singing sensation? You bet your sweet, sugary tits my bald headed friend.

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