Can you hear the difference?

[tibicina]

This is interesting. I scored a 77.8% which is apparently 'excellent musical abilities'. I'm not sure I'd agree with that, but even so. Though I agree with someone else's comment that having the option to replay each pair of phrases would be nice, making this not just about your ability to hear pitch differences, but about your pitch memory

Comments

[elcuervonegro]

I got an 80.6%, and yeah the lack of replay was somewhat annoying.

[angieelz]

Same here! 80.6%

My biggest problem was listening on computer speakers, so little nuances were a touch harder to hear.

[thealien]

I got 72.2%. I'm not sure what that might mean. But I don't think I ever have been able to identify sounds as they relate to musical notation. Even when I played piano...I could read music and produce the appropriate result, but I could never have listened and produced the sheet music. Maybe that would have come with additional years of experience, or maybe it's just a quirk. :)

[tibicina]

Honestly, unless you have perfect pitch it is very hard to just listen to something once and write out the musical notation. That said, usually you work back and forth with the recording and an instrument, though a good sense of relative pitch helps a lot. And... yes, doing musical dictation is a skill. A fairly difficult one for most people. Practice will make you much better at it. Not necessarily perfect, but I know when I was studying for the Music Theory AP and doing notation exercises every other day or so, I was a LOT better at musical dictation than I am now.

[dcb42]

77.8% Correct as well.

...which is... improbable, I would have thought. Huh!