Musical Listening Test
 

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

Can you correctly determine whether two musical samples are different?

Post your results! (I'll share mine once this gets going a bit - don't want to pollute the sample)

27 out of 30...sweet!!! Beat that!!! Eat my dust!!!

O.K. maybe I shouldn't be so competitive. I'd be interested to take the test again if they changed more than just the pitch parameter.

28. I think early on, I didn't know what sort of "differences" to be listening for, and I made up some differences that weren't really there. If you've got any ear for music at all, the "differences" leap right out at you. I agree with aberkok--this would have been more interesting with tempo, rhythm, or dynamic variation. As it is, there's one clinker note in there, and it's almost impossible to miss.

So, my reveal is a wimpy 24 correct.

I think I suffered from the problem ratbastid cited - I was looking too hard for subtle differences, when the real differences jumped right out at you (in that little run up, was the second note slightly higher the first time?).

30/30

But then again I am in grad school for music so I guess I don't count :(

wow i feel lame compared to you guys....i only scored 27 outta 30. were there some rhythm differences in there? because at first i only thought it would be note differences. bleh

30/30 and I'm not a grad student. I just have a good ear for this sort of thing.

Rhythmically, the two clips were identical every time. The only difference was a slight pitch variation, usually just one note, occasionally two.

30/30. The fact that so many of us are scoring so high indicates the experiment might not be the best. The fact that the different tunes had glaringly obvious flats or sharps in them REALLY indicates the experiment might not be the best ;)

I think it's probably an elementary research test for a survey course in ear training at the school to see how a non-musician or people who might not consider themselves musically adept in error detection. You could certainly take that and make it significantly different with a few tweeks to the programing.

Either way I find that stuff interesting to hear about results

Got 23/30 here. Which is quite a few more than I expected to get, really.

28 ... I'm pretty disappointed in myself after everyone's perfect scores

I scored a 24/30. I expected that. I can hear fine.. but I tend to get stuck on one tune and end up not hearing the next one correctly.

29/30 most of them seemed obvious there was only one i wasn't sure on, i guess that's the one i got wrong.

30/30. This was not a difficult test. Really obvious, glaring differences.

Same here. 27.

30/30, I wish it were harder.

27/30. Is it just me or did the musical bits start repeating themselves at the halfway mark?

24 out of 30

quadro2000: there was some that were similar

30/30. I agree that the notes that were different were very obvious.

28/30 - It wasn't too bad.