Hi Folks!
Here in the USA, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has an online hearing test called 'Distorted Tunes: Test your sense of pitch'.
Part of the summary is:
I took the test in about 5 mins, which has 26 sound clips that you listen to and rate if the song is played correctly or not.
After completion, the result it gave me was:
Sadly, it does not tell you which one(s) you got wrong.
We discuss topics related to hearing perception here on the forum all this time, so, while not specific to ukulele, it is related to music in general, and if you have trouble recognizing when your playing is off, or your instrument is out of tune, this might shed some light on the source of the problem.
I thought it might be fun to share this link with UU and have folks report back and share their results here.
You can find the test here:
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/tunetest/Pages/Default.aspx
I cannot take credit for discovering this myself, but found it on the Ycombinator 'Hacker News' feed this morning, with relevant discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10219662
Have Fun!
Here in the USA, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has an online hearing test called 'Distorted Tunes: Test your sense of pitch'.
Part of the summary is:
"Want to test your own sense of pitch? We've developed an online version of the Distorted Tunes Test, a standardized survey in use for over 50 years. In it, you'll listen to a series of snippets from well-known tunes—some of which have been distorted by changing various notes' pitch. Your task is to pick out the incorrectly played tunes."
I took the test in about 5 mins, which has 26 sound clips that you listen to and rate if the song is played correctly or not.
After completion, the result it gave me was:
"Hearing Test Results
You correctly identified 25 tunes (out of 26) on the Distorted Tunes Test. Congratulations! You have a fine sense of pitch.
Thank you for taking the Distorted Tunes Test. "
Sadly, it does not tell you which one(s) you got wrong.
We discuss topics related to hearing perception here on the forum all this time, so, while not specific to ukulele, it is related to music in general, and if you have trouble recognizing when your playing is off, or your instrument is out of tune, this might shed some light on the source of the problem.
I thought it might be fun to share this link with UU and have folks report back and share their results here.
You can find the test here:
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/tunetest/Pages/Default.aspx
I cannot take credit for discovering this myself, but found it on the Ycombinator 'Hacker News' feed this morning, with relevant discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10219662
Have Fun!
FYI: 'Hacker News' (https://news.ycombinator.com/news) is a real-time news page/site that has topics mostly related to technology and computers, and is NOT a site that hosts or discusses malware or doing evil things to or with computers, just in case you were not aware of it's function, or afraid it was going to kill your browser.