I took a tone deaf test

[@LoveLife247]

She is perhaps the most emotionless person I ever came across lol I've never seen her sad, happy or angry and I've been a fan for quite a while now 😁 She's unique and she knows it 😊😉

[@catkeys6911]

She ACTS a little upset, (pacing back and forth in this video when she got one wrong) sometimes- just part of her schtick. The thing with Elise is that her facial expression is ALWAYS blank- she's a little like a talking mannequin - she knows its funny in a sort of original, off-beat way.

[@paulgray757]

Watch the cat piano video I think it's the only time you see her truly smile

[@asadullahkitchen2883]

Show those Haters Elise!

[@EliseEcklund]

yep! I really showed them.. like really!

[@sophieson6592]

You spoiled it

[@snowyowlss]

@@sophieson6592 they could’ve meant it genuinely if the video was real you know lol

[@henrythebananaboy]

@@EliseEcklundhi

[@henrythebananaboy]

@@sophieson6592hello

[@jeoffmetry]

A or B… uuuuhhh 24!

[@EliseEcklund]

correct!!!

[@Potata12]

Uhhhh purple!

[@EthanKo-tb9xe]

No it’s trees turn black because of yes

[@wheleck]

wait i thought it was pineapple

[@ItsSkyWasTaken]

Dang, I got 25

[@KHID-JR]

KEEP IT UP LEGEND WE WILL ALWAYS SUPPORT YOU.🌟.

[@billybob3040]

I’m basically tone deaf 😂

[@EliseEcklund]

it's ok i can relate

[@321Jarn]

​@@EliseEcklund you can relate 🤨

[@Theriaaaaaaaan]

@@EliseEcklund.🤨

[@SatoXian]

Seth Everman walked for Elise to run with it.

[@snowwhitehair485]

I'm tone deaf so I'm going to enjoy your entire discography.

[@davidedrich6985]

I did the test with you. It was hilarious! Now I thought you were only a comedian, ok maybe a musical comedian, now I find your a singer/song writer too. Been watching for months but never knew. Liked the not so casual way you Segwayed to your Spotify presence. Yes - it got me to listen and I liked it.

[@EliseEcklund]

ah thank you so much! so happy you like my music! definitely trying to talk about it more since it seems some people don't realize I write songs:)

[@LibertyDaGamer]

Elise, I love you so much you brighten everyone’s day

[@rogerpalsgrove9678]

Dang, we were both so close on that last one.

[@adambarber1090]

Your gaze is so intense it goes through my soul

[@TheIhplodur]

Imagine Elise and Lord Vinhitero in a Collab.

[@nisarafsar8839]

​@@TheIhplodurYES!!!

[@user-ez3il1yy6i]

OMG !!! That Smile At 2:14 🥰

[@kryptonic79]

went on your Spotify and listened 2 your music thing., it’s really good

[@EliseEcklund]

ahh thank you so much!!

[@JavierTheAstronaut]

She turned from making song about haters than to turn from the haters wow just wow what a legend👏

[@ActiveAdvocate1]

My favourite song of yours was from way back in the day with that one about class presentations. I sent it to my favourite professor (I was still in university at the time) and told him that I am somehow ALL of the kids in that room at the same time. Go re-watch your own work, eh? It's funny. And you don't go off-pitch in that one. I don't think tests like these really count all that much: the question is whether you can tell that two notes are different at all.

[@stevedenis8292]

Sing like no one is watching and dance like no one is listening.

[@tlkpizzacat]

I'm not only tone deaf but also partially deaf in general. In elementary school I had to take hearing tests and it was eventually determined that although hearing in my right ear was perfect, I couldn't hear low tones in my left ear. I bet it's much worse now that I'm in my late thirties🥲

[@Awesome-to4ez]

I enjoyed this video, keep it up Elise!

[@EliseEcklund]

thank you so much!

[@Awesome-to4ez]

​@@EliseEcklundNo problem :)

[@TheCatCornerCo]

I can't tell if she is joking or telling the truth! I can relate really hard. In choir period, I am horrible at note identification and always get it wrong, and get overjoyed to get it right... Elise you are amazing!

[@cinegoth4144]

I’m glad I found you. You’re hilarious

[@Solonas-gv8ib]

Probably worst recommendation KZbin ever made to me. This channel is as funny as cancer is.

[@Planeguy665]

@@Solonas-gv8ibmy tiny asf brain can’t comprehend if that’s a compliment or insult

[@danlogan5657]

you are amazing elise!for get the haters.your songs rock

[@zachwyles03]

Don’t worry Elise! I got some of it wrong, too! But don’t let that test affect your love and passion for music! You’re the best and have a beautiful voice! 👏😁

[@Carole_littleforest]

Same problem... Sometimes it seems I have perfect pitch I can even recognize a melody from one song to another and sometimes I can't even say if it's going up or down. I am 💯% with you. Be brave Elise 🤘

[@Cokeeee124]

“Guys this isn’t what it looks like” love your videos Elise you have an amazing personality and I love your music

[@mfluder15]

Hang in there Elise. We’re all in this together.

[@MeIsAiden]

I think we all can agree that Elise is a great singer regardless if she's tone deaf or not.

[@EliseEcklund]

aw thank you!!

[@avamay2274]

definitely

[@MeIsAiden]

@@EliseEcklund you're welcome

[@ImInYourWalls-i1e]

I love your songs: "Ur mom" and " half of my life" ❤❤❤❤

[@passerine.songbird]

Okay but in all seriousness you’re such a good singer

[@EliseEcklund]

aw thank you!!

[@ramonaflowers5052]

Most people don't have perfect pitch, so for most people, your music sounds perfect! Love your songs!

[@chilaiYeung]

Elise: tone deaf ❌ Elise: bad memory ✅

[@WordGunner]

50/50 sounds fair to me 😂 wasnt able to get the last 3... Didnt expect it to be this bad 🙈✌️

[@andrewrichards312]

1 and 5 - the starting interval to the Star Wars openning theme.

[@Rvictorbravo]

In musical school it took me almost a whole quarter of drills to get relative pitch down. Keep at it!

[@MichaelBCoats]

Elise, your music is the test, and you ace it all the time! I love your music and I love you! ❤

[@EliseEcklund]

Thank you so much!!!

[@RadRand.]

Don’t listen to the haters Elise you have perfect pitch.

[@crimsonmoon8649]

I don't hear any, because I'm watching this video without sound

[@owusukyeremateng2429]

What!!!!!!

[@reymondavellana7367]

This is literally me and I've composed a beginner level double recorder concerto, a piano sonata, and some more. Technology really helped in terms of getting into music

[@sonorangaming449]

We have similar hearing. I guessed almost the exact same way you did. I think 2 of my answers were different, you being closer to correct in both

[@Awesome-to4ez]

For those of you who would like to know or would like to try this challenge out for yourself, Play By Ear Music School's test is the one that Elise is doing throughout the video.

[@Davisshelmire]

I love her music every one go stream it

[@loganhorton719]

So I just found your channel randomly and it's literally my humor in real life 😂

[@serebor_]

Longer videos back. Good for you

[@ShadowFrog369]

Elise it was testing to see if you’re tone deaf, in the middle, or perfect pitch which means you would be in the middle but leaning towards tone deaf (I’m in the middle)

[@BumblebeeWOF]

You can sing 0:12

[@Leothetortoise-de4ij]

AS OF MONDAY JUNE 10 ELSIE HAS UPLOADED 999 VIDEOS

[@cristianroque9770]

OMG! Even I was tricked on the first question, I should’ve realized that when you heard the A note B was circled 😂

[@jesusloera6664]

U are a legend Elise, great job ❤👏✌

[@UdderlyEvelyn]

I have perfect pitch, and I already knew this was likely, but now that I have secondhand taken a KZbin video test I know it for sure. 🎉

[@pradeep8106]

Hey girl... I have been following you for so long..Since your first bad comments song.. Wishing you the best.. ❤

[@Potata12]

Petition for elise to get a tyler joseph cutout to join mr worldwide Maybe josh dun too😂

[@huggybear539]

I took an on line vision test just for the heck of it and found out I'm partially color blind, I can't see certain shades of brown and never knew it. Funny thing is, brown has always been my favorite color.

[@user-bc3jr4fi5v]

Once everyone in my choir was going on about how out of tune the piano was, but i was just like "sounds like a piano 🤷‍♀️"

[@EliseEcklund]

haha that would be me

[@KuraKuma888]

This test is a liar. They kept tricking you by saying A or B but if you play notes on the actual piano it’s actually notes like Ab and Bb

[@I.am.not.a.doctor]

It's option a or option b not the notes but I can see the confusion

[@Angus-u6i]

She looked halfway happy when she got them right😂😂❤❤❤

[@Half_Blood_Duke]

Oh Elise you're perfect don't be sad. After 11 years of working in music I didn't have one correct either😭

[@LordMalhuse]

Yoo she was smiling!

[@TordaiJenoArthurJenci]

Keep it up ❤

[@attilakiss8585]

She smiles at 2:41 and it so lovely.

[@WalterHildahl]

Don't listen to the haters. I like your singing, and I'm picky. I have to say that I don't like Autotune, though.

[@Makayla2025-n8j]

Hi Elise Love your channel your amazing your videos always make my day

[@Millenimorphose]

Those last questions assume you’ve had formal ear training (practical music theory) OR perfect pitch. As long as you are not *actually* tone deaf, your pitch acuity can be trained. There was a guy in my high school band who would literally play like a seventh off when we asked him to match pitch and he was literally incapable of hearing how far out he was.

[@JensGulin]

Not really, relative pitch only and short term memory. Knowing scales help, but you don't need to if you can match the numbers shown during "listen only" with the tones played back later. With music theory you would certainly be familiar with the 1-5 interval from start, but there's no requirement really. The biggest problem for a beginner is likely to even understand the questions, but I'd say that's the same from start in that case. The concept of "going up" or "higher" was never explained in the video. I don't consider it music theory, but not sure how much training a "normal" or a "tone deaf" person needs to interpret them. Elise definitely knew all these concepts and seemed able to hear the tones fine.

[@nicknibs6554]

​@@JensGulin you're not wrong, but that's not the entirety of it. When I first did interval tests, I would always be off. After a little practice, I was always on it, even if I had to take a minute to rehear and work it out. Unfamiliar things are unfamiliar. Innate ability doesn't mean innate skill. With about 1 hour of practice, she would likely get 100% on a similar test.

[@JensGulin]

@@nicknibs6554 sure, training is a good way to get better! I didn't really intend to argue, just triggered by words like "perfect pitch, formal training, music theory". Those are great, but this test didn't seem to require any of them. Keep learning!

[@Meowlia-Guess]

YOU GOT THIS!! GREAT JOB!!

[@falloutfan2502]

I literally got the same score as you. Rick Beato's ear training course, here I come! :D

[@maggiefoege2404]

I actually got to see Elise being excited for once🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Kazekai_AJ]

She’s so cool she can make the best music while being half tone death she’s a legend Imagine the power she would have if she had perfect hearing?

[@TheJaguar1983]

I was always bad at picking intervals. It was one of the things that made me drop out of singing lessons.

[@nathanb1509]

All I can hear is the movie grenade hearing loss effect.

[@DeathAngel-Official]

Honestly this was hard

[@EliseEcklund]

ok thanks i'm glad i'm not the only one who thought so

[@StuermischeTage]

Dunno, is it? I just find it confusing how they assign numbers and letters to something, when they could just be asking which key was pressed. That would have been so much easier to say, you pressed b d and g#, then having to translate that to whatever numberscheme they came up with.

[@PurpleGuyMakesBeats]

It wasn’t lol

[@catmobile20]

“Elise is tone deaf!” is the type of thing that a tone deaf Elise Ecklund hater would say.

[@P_a_N_c_A_k_]

I’m happy this was a test for both of us! I ended up getting tripped up on that last one, but all the others I got correct :)

[@WallyDaWerewolf]

I’ve been sick for 4 days and all I’ve been watching is your videos. This is the best channel ever.

[@KitsuneFyora]

Makes me feel better about heating different pitches. But lmao we had the same reaction during the second half 😆

[@hollywigton4817]

Bro on the 1-5 I thought 2-3 your not alone on that one Elise.

[@Sebbiiboi]

Your not tone deaf, I am 💀

[@tukiluka]

*you're

[@EmilioGameair]

​@@tukilukashut the hell up, no one likes people that are just correcting all the damn time, it's annoying

[@leeanndrury6764]

Its fine plss😮‍💨😮‍💨

[@fannmos]

I’m average

[@maltemoj]

You're also grammar deaf.

[@OJODO]

I surely didn’t listen every song on your album like 20 times (yes i did)

[@BeastKingBarbaros]

Half of my life, more like, half of my tone deaf

[@unicornpink3687]

Ignore the haters! The haters are just trying to get in your head. I think your voice is amazing! My voice is not as good as your voice. Your voice is so much better than my voice!

[@Skychibilover]

She smiled for like a million hours

[@gotvidz2222]

I just found your music it's really good..fr fr I didn't know

[@catkeys6911]

Elise, WHY are you so *loveable* ?? I can't figure this out!

[@gamesturbator]

I have a condition where if I am doing something physical like exercise, I can't count past 6 without losing my place. This one was not easy for me either.

[@ItsSkyWasTaken]

0:57 You know what's funny, that pitch was actually A6 lol, turns out you really DO have perfect pitch! :D Btw in case anyone was wondering, these were the notes: Tone matching - 1. F♯₃ - A₆ (3 octaves + minor 3rd) [A₆] 2. G♯₄ - F♯₅ (minor 7th) [G♯₄] 3. E₄ - B₄ (perfect 5th) [B₄] 4. B♭₄ - D₅ (major 3rd) [B♭₄] Up or down - 5. E♭₅ - G₅ - B♭₅ (E♭ major) [up] 6. G₅ - B₅ - D₆ (G major) [up] Notes in a scale - 7. C major - G₅ [5] 8. D major - D₅ - A₅ [1-5] 9. B major - B₄ - D♯₅ - G♯₅ [1-3-6]

[@XavierBlackburn777]

Elise is a good singer whether she’s tone deaf or not

[@EliseEcklund]

thank you

[@organist1982]

I have perfect pitch, so when the first question played A and B, I thought those were note names, so I was like, "Wait, those notes aren't the notes A and B"!!! 😂 (They're actually F# and A, respectively.) And, to be fair, that last part with the scale degrees is advanced, and even students in Music Theory courses in college would have trouble with that, at least initially.

[@dannykent6190]

If you're looking to recognize the relative pitch immediately, then I agree it's advanced... but you can literally just sing the scale here until you find the right note. You might be making it more complicated than you need to.

[@organist1982]

@@dannykent6190 It was super-easy for me, but I just remember my fellow music theory classmates struggling somewhat with exercises like that, at least at first.

[@sir_john_hammond]

went all Eyes Wide Shut at 1:25

[@ricktbdgc]

I got them all right but had to listen a few times before guessing

[@anisa2273]

I did similar to u except I got the first two right... But damn were the last ones hard. I guess I'm not tone deaf but not that good either

[@MightyJonE]

I didn’t even understand most of the questions 🤣 And some of them are the worst ever!

[@gbilo24]

Even as a perfect pitch I struggled a bit with the last ones

[@den-dudin-rock]

It becomes weird when the oprtions names partly match the note names. Especially, when the pitch of a note is a B, but the option for it is not B, but A

[@Idkkkkkkkkkk-in9ns]

I started piano lessons when I was 3 so if I was tone deaf that would be concerning (btw I am not tone deaf I have perfect pitch)…

[@Bonesawmusicgamesandmore]

You are amazing, and you are beautiful

[@elkandweirddreams]

Definitely not tone deaf. You got the first two wrong but quickly figured it out and you would get them all right if you tried again. The next part is more like an ear training exercise. The questions you got wrong were still pretty good guesses and you developed good strategies to do it (when you sang the root note of the scale a couple times to familirize yourself with the key). This test reminded me of stuff i had to do in college ear training courses, you could definitely hang with all that stuff. Great ear!

[@ToyKeeper]

My ex couldn't tell the difference between a major and minor chord. Even back-to-back, she was like "it's the same thing twice". In visual terms, that's like not being able to tell the difference between orange and blue.

[@AdelineCathey]

Elise I still like your singing

[@EliseEcklund]

thank you. i appreciate that

[@XxReeses]

love these videos! keep it up!

[@penguintoys5001]

I LOVE YOUR MUSIC AND MY SIS DOES TOO! It’s really funny 😂😂😂

[@realestateinvestingsimplif393]

it just takes practice. i used to be able to identify every note when i was in piano lessons.. but now 20 years later mainly playing accousitic gutar i forgot everything i learned. but now i have a son i am teaching piano and those lost skills are returning to me on there own. mostly while playing the xylephone and watching cartoons hahhaha. but its comming back ohh and im 100% deff now in 1 ear and 40% deff in the other. its sad but can be corrected weith surgery.. but i have kids dso right now deff is pretty sweet lol... when i listen to slipknow on my cerwin vegas my wife thinks the windows are gonna break lol so far the only thing that rattles enuff to break are my neighbours dishes.

[@tyreesetjjoyner1995]

Good video, Elise

[@EliseEcklund]

Thanks!

[@para5694]

The last one sounded like Still D.R.E. (that's kinda how I knew it)

[@Zenith009.]

Same