Are you 'tone deaf'? Watch this video to find out! (Part 1)

this went from a tone deaf test to a memory test real quick

The mere fact I’m not a tone deaf is enough for me.

This escelated quickly lol, went from being told I'm most likely not tone deaf, to overwhelmed

Cries in bad short term memory

I love how this repeated the sound of going up like 6 different times but then just basically gives us 8 notes to memorize and associate with numbers at the end

I had a friend who had vocal tone-deafness: if I played a note on the piano, he couldn't match it at all with his voice (by several notes.) But without looking he could match it with his flute. So he could hear the note correctly, but couldn't tell that he wasn't singing it correctly. A very strange kind of tonal dyslexia.

The difficulty went from 1 to 100 really quick

Relative pitch is honestly pretty learnable if you're not tone deaf. If you can remember songs that have a certain interval, it's memorize the note gap, and apply it when you need it. For example, think twinkle twinkle little star, and the first note jump is a perfect 4th. If you can remember that, you can probably train yourself to hear that familiar pattern in music and now you know what the 4th of a major scale sounds like

People seem worried about the numbers part but honestly that’s a little more advanced than something most people just know with no prior learning! When I took singing classes we regularly had exercises for trying to memorize the octave notes and being able to name them just by ear. That’s something you usually have to train unless you’re born with “perfect pitch” like it says at the start of the video, but that’s not all that common. So don’t worry y’all it’s normal to not pass that part lol

I got as far as ruling myself out as "tone deaf". The moment the scale was broken out, I was lost.

After 14 years of playing piano I’m glad to announce that I’m not tome deaf yayyy

Knew a guy with perfect pitch in high school, he played snare drum. A few times when I forgot to tune before practice or a show I’d quickly get him to tell me if I was in tune. It was so cool.

Huge props for not making a dumb video , this was great straight to the point and no bullshit.

Even if you have perfect pitch, being able to know how far apart the notes are in the last section uses a completely different part of the brain. It takes a lot of practice, had to take interval tests in music class once a month. It's definitely something that requires practice.

I passed the first five and had no idea on the identify by number section. It wasn't a gradual progression; all of the first five stages were very easy, and I had no chance whatsoever with the rest. It's like going from basic addition to calculus. Regardless, it doesn't matter because I'm hopeless at learning music. I took a class on music in the elementary school and failed it twice because students were required to learn to read music, and I apparently am incapable of doing that. The lesson would make sense while the professor was teaching it, then when I'd attempt to do it on my own, it no longer made sense. It also is a lot like calculus in that way, but harder.

As a perfect pitch musician, I thought you meant A was A and B was B and I was so fucking confused 😭

Turns out I'm not tone deaf, but my voice is still wildly unreliable. Voice breaks or gets lost easily, and has broken up range that's super limited.

My oldest sibling was able to play stuff on her toy piano as a 4 year old after hearing a song, she just instinctively knew exactly how to play a song without any piano lessons. But sadly our parents didn't put in the time, money and effort to put that skill to test. I really believe she could have been a concert pianist with different parents. I know if I showed her this video she would get everything right.

This is a memory game if you're not tone-deaf, like I just forgot what note A sounded like on one of them, and apparently that means I'm tone-deaf, even though I sing all the time.

The annoying thing is that you think remembering the assigned numbers to the tones is the same thing as memorizing the sounds we heard. I can repeat any sound I've heard, but if you assign labels to them, I won't be able to identify them. My brain doesn't work that way. Having perfect pitch is not the same thing as having the memory to recall the exact label each sound is supposed to be. They are two different skills, both of them are impressive. The people with both, even more so.