Harvard tests my MUSICAL IQ??

[@Malinda]

Hi friends xx. I'm trying to make a single a month for the rest of the year :D. If you want to help me out and see all of the things that go on behind the scenes, join the fam on Patreon! bit.ly/MKRsupport What else would you like to see from me on here?

[@classified7417]

MALINDA I enjoy basically anything you do but the fun songs are cool and I enjoy these types of videos

[@nidhisharma4487]

I love you so much!! I have your channel on my *Favourite KZbinr* wall

[@nidhisharma4487]

I love your song *" dont make me "*

[@janelledrucker]

I will try 2 let my parents to let me! Hopefully!

[@jadedelbania1435]

Okay heres a challenge: So you pick a book youve never read before then you randomly choose a page, read it and try to make a short song out of what you understood from the page/the vibe it gave/how it made you feel or etc. Not sure if youll pick this but Im just tryna be helpful ;-;

[@aaronturnbull6528]

*Musical IQ better than 95% of people* "Oh, it's a little chart that goes WEEEEE"

[@wordart_guian]

makes me sad that there's no 3D fun little chart on IRL psychometric tests.

[@octopus123]

@@wordart_guian Έλληνας?

[@wordart_guian]

@@octopus123 I'm french actually (I just wanted to spell "wordart" with the greek alphabet)

[@octopus123]

@@wordart_guian oh great! Have a good day/night :)

[@wordart_guian]

@@octopus123 thanks! you too

[@jamesslick4790]

"Melodic Discrimination" is a good name for a band.

[@KiraMermaid]

I now want my youngest to create that band when she grows up (Her name is Melody. She's 4)

[@jamesslick4790]

@@KiraMermaid 😊👍

[@coreys2686]

I guess you could say music stores that forbid the playing of "Stairway to Heaven" or "Smoke on the Water" in the guitar department are guilty of Melodic Discrimination?

[@jamesslick4790]

@@coreys2686 😛

[@mr.worldwide4758]

Sounds like a death metal band

[@clarascats1365]

“Oh look at that, that’s a pretty little graphic thing where it goes weeeeee, that’s fun” -Malinda 2020

[@noelgregorich5479]

Nobody: Malinda: * makes cat pun with no cats around her * That amazing humor. The reason we watch this channel.

[@MirorR3fl3ction]

100% yes

[@jnerf007]

lol i'm pretty sure she accidentally said meow instead of now so she just edited a cat in

[@cookie856]

@@jnerf007 ... I said meow for yes to my parents. But I have my cat around me all the day XD

[@brenna5865]

Malinda: it's crunchy Non-musicians: ??? Me, a musician: *WHEEZE* IT'S CRONCHY

[@rivby3695]

Brenna Goddard but is it Fonky

[@elaianyagodin8215]

My band/choir geek heart just went to the moon and back, this is perfect😂

[@sofimeoni3671]

Well I'm not a musician and felt it cruchy too

[@FuzzyStripetail]

Unlike the sleeves on her shirt, it doesn't appear that Malinda has to button up her already high musical IQ, however, she has a propensity to be instantly distracted by pretty little graphic things that apparently go "Wheee!"

[@trinepetersen5435]

another flaw in the result-giving of the test is that probably a huge majoruty of those who take this sort of test are other musician/people who have an high interest / lifestyle that revolves arround music. Therefore, when they tell you how you did compared to others, it is not so much 'how you compare to the average person', but more like ' how you did compared to other musically inlightened people'.

[@pondboy3682]

Exactly what I was thinking!

[@Roozyj]

That's true :) Well, I'm here to lower the average! I'm the hero everyone needed!

[@zoragryffin9000]

I’m pretty sure they also use mathematics and normal distribution (like normal IQ) to calculate that percentage. Not only previous scores.

[@Roozyj]

@@zoragryffin9000 I mean, sure, but mathematics and normal distribution are a way of calculating; the previous scores are the data. You can't just make a random normal distribution or 'do mathematics' without data.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

You’re a woman of culture, you don’t need a Harvard test

[@angelDanJonathan]

Harvard made this test. You can trust this test to tell you whether or not you have musical talent. Unfortunately opinions don't matter because this test is accurate at finding musical talent/music IQ. Cry about it. Don't care. What credentials do you have that are good enough to disprove the accuracy of a musical IQ test made by genius Harvard students. Do you have a PhD in research and psychology and music?

[@johncunningham4820]

@@angelDanJonathan . Do You ? Malinda's closing comments were completely valid . Eurocentric . Chinese or Japanese or Indian would think this " Test " to be Rubbish and irrelevant .

[@angelDanJonathan]

@@johncunningham4820 Harvard made this test. You can trust this test to tell you whether or not you have musical talent. Unfortunately opinions don't matter because this test is accurate at finding musical talent/music IQ. Cry about it. Don't care. What credentials do you have that are good enough to disprove the accuracy of a musical IQ test made by genius Harvard students. Do you have a PhD in research and psychology and music?

[@johncunningham4820]

@@angelDanJonathan Yeah , Yeah . Excellent Cut and Paste work there Dude . Harvard is NOT the Be All and End All house of learning when it comes to Music BTW . Try not repeat yourself next time . Produce NEW content . Demonstrate YOUR creativity , and ability to think Freely , rather than swallowing the Propaganda .

[@angelDanJonathan]

​@@johncunningham4820 Kayne fan spotted commence epic troll attack: Harvard made this test. You can trust this test to tell you whether or not you have musical talent. Unfortunately opinions don't matter because this test is accurate at finding musical talent/music IQ. Cry about it. Don't care. What credentials do you have that are good enough to disprove the accuracy of a musical IQ test made by genius Harvard students. Do you have a PhD in research and psychology and music?

[@daniellemcgrath9252]

“It’s a cool little graphics thing that goes WHEEEEEE!” That made my day

[@sarahstevens4931]

Any Harvard test I’d fail. No buts. Any. Any test. Academic or Art, utter fail.

[@abuvanty1822]

Same tho

[@Nitrolord]

@Lynkin Colott Not anymore

[@frogruler452]

What about athletics?

[@sarahstevens4931]

Hermione Granger HAHAHAHA that’s hilarious, you epic prankster

[@frogruler452]

Sarah Stevens I was just born to be a comedian wasn’t I?

[@sillysandy_3]

"I'm doubting myself but I still get it right" *Sigh* I wish....

[@pastelevie8272]

the duality of malinda: "thats a pretty little graphic thing where it goes WEEE!" *immediately starts talking abt her issues with the quiz and makes some very good points*

[@lenamarieanne7872]

Malinda: *happily listening* Singer: aAaAaAaAa Malinda: *winces*

[@Dan-C-71]

I’m not a musician by any stretch of the imagination, but some of the out of tune clips totally made me cringe. And she’s right about the rigidness of the test. Some of the best music contains flaws that just come with being human.

[@jamesslick4790]

Yes, I'm by no means any kind of musician, but I can hear the rigidity of most modern "pop", I am convinced that this is due to the strict "grid" that the music is forced into by software. Such exactness is desired in a financial spreadsheet,but sucks the very life or "soul" from music. Music is not an exact science, like math,chemistry or physics. It's an art. Art is organic not a rigid formula. Even the most "mechanical", crass commercially mass produced disco records from the 1970s have more soul that the "perfect" tracks made by the "labels" today.

[@Dan-C-71]

I have no rhythm, pitch or any clue about music theory, but give me a laptop with Pro Tools and Autotune and I could release an album by the weekend. And I know Malinda uses this stuff, but her music definitely has a soul to it.

[@jamesslick4790]

@@Dan-C-71 There's nothing wrong with using technology, tools have a definite use, The problem comes in when music is generated ONLY with technology. Sure I could also crank out an album using nothing but my PC and my Tascam recorder. But it'll be soulless crap that I, myself wouldn't want to listen to. (but I'm sure some content starved radio station or streaming service would play,just to fill space..) Any that's why I tuned out of most modern music.

[@Dan-C-71]

James Slick Pretty much my point. The technology has it’s place, just so long as it’s not used to replace genuine talent.

[@jamesslick4790]

@@Dan-C-71 We're not in disagreement, We're highlighting a concept 👍👍 (ignore any bad spelling, LOL).

[@cella_bella]

Guys, I think it's official, Malinda is a TwoSetter

[@nafijaibrisimovic8209]

I was looking for this 😂

[@tamismile2]

What's a TwoSetter?

[@cella_bella]

@@tamismile2 so much to learn, yet so little time, young Padawan. Go check out these guys, cause they're awesome and might change your life: kzbin.info

[@elysse1342]

InTEresTIng

[@nuu9282]

Actually several youtubers made videos about this test, like Roomieofficial and Adam Neely, so I'm not so sure she got the inspiration from Twoset

[@amisinger]

11:14 VERY descriptive Malinda. Very descriptive

[@HDGamerofficial]

“Fun out of 10” I feel like that describes Malinda perfectly 😂

[@monosrijamajumder7801]

This is the earliest I have ever been!! Honestly, your videos have made this time a lot less boring! I am so happy that you are back !

[@nuggetnougat]

Last time I was this early King George was still "that behind"-ing.

[@bwpeterson2780]

Good reference, in addition, you can call the owner

[@antalbojtos4413]

This is no musical IQ, this measures how well-trained your ears are. No kind of intelligence has anything to do with it, poor choice of words on the part of Harvard.

[@antalbojtos4413]

@Mister Physics Intelligence Quotient is pretty much Intelligence for me. I'm not qualified or educated enough to regard your opinion about Harvard.

[@Dwayne_Bearup]

@Mister Physics I know many people with an average IQ and exceptional memories and many people with an exceptional IQ and average memory. The Intelligence Quotient is more a system for comparing and contrasting the intelligence of various people than it is about memory, per se.

[@StrazdasLT]

Remmeber: by calling everything "IQ" you can discredit the meaning of a very useful measure and pretend that people have no inherent differences.

[@antalbojtos4413]

@@StrazdasLT I don't think IQ has an objective meaning. IQ is what the IQ test measures, but there are several IQ tests out there.

[@StrazdasLT]

@@antalbojtos4413 Then your opinion on the IQ is simply contrary to scientific evidence.

[@mckenziecalhoun316]

Don' t love this test. Very ambiguos, for instance, in the "beat" section: some music beats on 2 and 4, some music has irregular beats. Also tuning is akward, because it is base on equal temperament: indians have way more notes, chinese culture used a penthatonic, meddle east music has totally different tuning systems, etc... furthermore there is a little bit of liberty when one performs to be out of tune to give a different feel to the melody.... The melody one, tho, kinda makes sense, really the only 100% ibjective one

[@angelDanJonathan]

Harvard made this test. You can trust this test to tell you whether or not you have musical talent. Unfortunately opinions don't matter because this test is accurate at finding musical talent/music IQ. Cry about it. Don't care. What credentials do you have that are good enough to disprove the accuracy of a musical IQ test made by genius Harvard students. Do you have a PhD in research and psychology and music?

[@andrewfortmusic]

Wait... Does this mean that Malinda watches Roomie, Adam Neely, and TwoSet? I mean, the first two I could have expected, but I did not realize that she's a TwoSetter!

[@elysse1342]

InTeREstInG

[@squiggles7833]

She beat them as well

[@bethanyhu1881]

@@squiggles7833 she didn't beat ray chen ray got 133

[@BleuSquid]

Took the test before watching so I could go into it blind (or deaf?)... I had so much more trouble with the odd one out / different key... It felt more like a memory test than a music test, and my memory is crap sometimes!

[@ham1533]

Yeah, same, it could work with shorter melodies, but some of the melodies were way too long for my brain

[@lilisgamingcorner6793]

Malinda: Heh yea that was definitely the second one. Also her: *hears the next clip and smile dissapears*

[@faithinablanket]

Alternate title: Melinda roasts Harvard's research skills

[@risxra]

This is so wild listening to you talk about the minutiae of this stuff, because as a horn player who generally prefers to play in an ensemble, I think there’s a really fine line between adhering to the tempo and musicality. In a larger group like a concert band there’s a lot less wiggle room to play with tempo because everyone will interpret their own definitions of musicality differently. So I took a teensy bit of an issue with the way you described music as being too emotional and tactile to quantify in that way - I completely understand what you mean, but I see adhering to a solid tempo as something that not only is a fundamental building block of creating great music but can be really powerful as well. In my experience, getting to a point with your ensemble (especially a large one) where you all can feel the tempo together is a uniquely comforting feeling. I’m writing this at 1am after spending 7 hours on a linear algebra exam so I hope that was in any way coherent. (Also, I took the test before watching the video and I got a 116! I was pretty impressed with myself tbh)

[@sourwitch2340]

"she was flatter the second time" I found that sentence funny though I don't know what it would mean without context

[@mikejones9080]

I've been singing for over 70 years, and playing guitar for 67 year's. This video taught me things I didn't know. Some things you mentioned, were instinctive for me, and others I learned over the years fronting bands in my home town. Never had a lesson. Self taught, so my teacher was an idiot. So many ridiculous moments. For example, the first time someone asked what key a certain song was in, I didn't know what they were asking. Transposing keys was easy; I just didn't know what it was called. Thanks for your videos. I love them! Especially the Google translate ones. You go, girl.

[@katiehetherton8669]

I absolutely love your videos!!😀

[@stavgoldstein4209]

Hello Malinda! Your channel is awsome, and you are very talented:)

[@drewkish9367]

Have you ever thought about being on broadway? I think that you would make an AMAZING Elphaba💚💚💚

[@KhamultheEasterling98]

My favorite class I ever took in highschool was band. I only took one year, I had never played an instrument before in my life, I had never read music outside of church where I'd just sing the melody. But it was the best class i ever took because my teacher was super encouraging and patient with me and the low brass helped me learn a lot and get better to the point i could be okay playing in public. Anyway, it was a lot of fun and I would've scored terribly

[@tickoman273]

6:50 what I think to myself when concentrating on one video while there's a very.. very good ad video next to it

[@danielbair8722]

You got a 5 on your AP exam?? Jealous! That test was stressful LOL, granted I'm visually impaired and had no idea how to read Braille music until I started taking that class, so I tried to take the test right after I finished learning Braille music, only to find out there were things that I hadn't learned yet. Congratulations on the five though, that's really hard!

[@hyazinthpoem1624]

It IS guidelines!!! Haha... :D I think the test is good to check if someone is NOT musical, as a very bad score might show that you can not do music with others, as you basically ignore their rhythm and tone - but all people around the middle should be fine And i feel (and think) that the difference between intuition (feeling the right answer) and knowing it is not as big as we are led to believe by the separation of the fields that work with the respectively chosen kind of knowledge - it might be that you schooled your feelings better than others and thus can do it with feeling, because you are just so much living it - so basically there is a point where they definately merge (if they are apart at all)

[@lolawilding447]

Last time I was this early Corona was a drink ( I know there’s 40 comments but oh well 😂)

[@thatfrenchguyinyourclass8955]

Love your music!!!

[@sophierae9206]

123 456 you’re first!

[@thatfrenchguyinyourclass8955]

I am???

[@sophierae9206]

Yep 😄

[@nadasabbagh8753]

I play piano by ear and consider myself instinctively good at music, but I am very average on this test. I agree with you that it is very Western centric. I *feel* what I play and other people who listen to my music tends to feel good when they hear it. Your point about music being culturally subjective is so very true. I doubt that tribal music in the sticks of somewhere, oh I dunno, Africa or whereever would really care about tempo too much etc etc.

[@clementwymiens7955]

Oh my god. I did not know how much I'd love to see you just plain serious and focus for once :D I don't know why, but it's really charming

[@bw6138]

Funny, talented, a musician, nerdy/geeky, punny, beautiful, and intelligent. Wow!

[@erichamion]

Those beeps are so distinct from the music that it's easy to completely dissociate the two, like listening to a conversation while a song plays in the background. That makes it harder to hear how they relate to each other. (I scored 109, so no musical genius)

[@theodorepinnock1517]

I have an awful ear for music - I cannot sing in tune to save my life, sadly - but I was surprised by how many of the questions in which I got the same answer as you.

[@HELIOLUMINA]

My grand ma was pitch perfect, she could play anything she heard. We lost her thirty years ago but mama has some of that left but it is too hard for her to play.

[@Jessica-nz3uw]

Your voice is so good 😊

[@chrysarokisharou6381]

Don't lie to us. We know you practice 40h a Day :-)

[@aisekrem3216]

Malinda is LingLing confirmed

[@meg-tan]

yes

[@bc6399]

Chrysaro Kisharou She practices all day, and night. Even in her sleep, I bet. She probably has dreams of singing and practicing music. She’s that committed.

[@okaayushi]

haha LingLing

[@sadiemcc9363]

The beat perception thing really messed me up because I've just subconsciously been finding beats in everything for as long as I can remember so when I heard the beats I was just like "this works...but this also works." Because my brain really just wants to make it fit.

[@davidbergfors6820]

Are you saying that the people in lab coats know less about what makes music artistic than an actual artist? Shocking! This was fun!

[@callmeFernie]

Every time I finished watch her video I go like "aw, she's so nice" haha Stay safe you too Malinda xx

[@taramishra2967]

I LOVE YOU MALINDA!!!! YOU ARE AMAZING! YOUR VOICE IS AMAZING AND YOU'RE JUST SO AWESOME!

[@joobus-stoobus-magoobus]

You can see how much it hurts for Malinda to listen to out-of-tune singing. Only a true musical prodigy would be in that much pain.

[@esanfilippo1230]

No... I really don't think so. My dad with no musical education or proficiency at all ever cringed at the out-of-tune ones.

[@haraldwithtwoehs]

Josh Orton I was a sound tech not a musician, but I could always tell when a singer was off. I have that same reaction - it hurts.

[@TherealDanielleNelson]

Then I must be a musical prodigy.

[@lsusmuggler]

I cringed at some of the in tune portions. Not a prodigy.

[@Ad_Astra1123]

I’m absolutely not a musical prodigy but I definitely cringed quite a lot.

[@hannahlovell7074]

DUDE!! You did your MEH thing for A and I played it on the piano to check because I DONT KNOW WHAT A IS, and DANG GIRL that was SPOT ON!!! AMAZING!!

[@conditionedby]

YASS QUEEN KEEP POSTING

[@angelDanJonathan]

Harvard made this test. You can trust this test to tell you whether or not you have musical talent. Unfortunately opinions don't matter because this test is accurate at finding musical talent/music IQ. Cry about it. Don't care. What credentials do you have that are good enough to disprove the accuracy of a musical IQ test made by genius Harvard students. Did you score 1600 on the SAT and 36 on the ACT bare minimum? Do you have a PhD in research and psychology and music?

[@jarrodmoore1323]

Tempo mapping. Learnt a new term for something I've used for year's. Thanks Malinda, my new thing for the day.

[@katinthegetto2916]

Just saying Never have I ever have found a metronome that is actually helpful

[@isaacyau7160]

I know right! I could not stop laughing the moment she said that rhythm is a guideline, not a rule

[@KitsukiiPlays]

It’s pretty cool in Pokémon games

[@pimanhappy]

Metronomes are a good for coordination practice. If you have a really fast flutter of notes, by slowing it down heaps you can train correct fingering into muscle memory. Then you can play it without the metronome without flailing xD

[@Roozyj]

Me: drinks xD

[@TheEliKaulitz]

I've found it helpful for when I've been practising and running without being able to really reeling myself back in. My teacher made sure the one I used was a really loud and VERY sharp one, so I couldn't tune it out, haha.

[@danimiller9932]

Another amazing video Malinda! Your channel is fantastic!

[@minjuinmajor5243]

Looooove you so much❤️❤️❤️❤️ you’re the reason i smile during quarantine🥰🥰

[@a-mz1000]

The test does look fun, but what struck me is that IQ suggests some kind of innate propensity or talent for something - the test, however, almost exclusively examined trained skills, which you can aquire completely independently of any "natural talent" (in quotation marks because not everyone agrees that such a thing exists at all)

[@sukikurai]

One interesting thing that relates to what she mentioned at the end about cultural understanding is Japanese music is a lot different to any other type of music, when we listen to music we expect closure but Japanese music doesn’t have much of that and so when someone who isn’t used to it listens to it it feels incomplete. If you listen to the music in Studio Ghibli films there is a lot less of that but only because Studio Ghibli films are viewed world wide, it is basically anime’s Disney, so they make their music less aimed towards the Japanese so it is more widely accepted.

[@LittleJ_13]

Having a strict beat is important when you try to have a virtual band in quarantine so it was really annoying that my director had NO SENSE OF STEADY TRMPO

[@Celimion]

I took the test thanks to your vid, it was fun indeed, but I usually have no sense of rythm, I'm learning and I got 112, which doesn't seem very accurate x) I loved the positive message you gave at the end to express how we should not take these results so seriously and still play music if we want to! Have a lovely day, love from France =D

[@angelDanJonathan]

Harvard made this test. You can trust this test to tell you whether or not you have musical talent. Unfortunately opinions don't matter because this test is accurate at finding musical talent/music IQ. Cry about it. Don't care. What credentials do you have that are good enough to disprove the accuracy of a musical IQ test made by genius Harvard students. Did you score 1600 on the SAT and 36 on the ACT bare minimum? Do you have a PhD in research and psychology and music?

[@yesno.idontknow.587]

Hi Malinda! How are you doing during these times?

[@elaianyagodin8215]

As a band geek and vocalist, this video made my heart happy😂

[@shinrin1081]

Your imput on this was honestly more interesting than the test itself.

[@ally2765]

Loving the variety in content!

[@Cathitalized]

"your participation is completely anonymous" "not anymore! :D"

[@trinepetersen5435]

request: I would love to hear you do some acoustic covers of some Simon & Garfunkel songs. Like Homeward Bound, or Scarborough Fair. It would be so lovely

[@benbanis8599]

Dear Malinda, you don't neede this. You are a fantastic singer and I love your voice and enthousiasm. Don't doubt about yourself. Love you😍

[@sofimeoni3671]

Oohh goshh when she said "número tres"😍

[@BackToBlueSide218]

Smart, pretty, funny and talented! I’m not jealous at all lol

[@graceehall_]

You know you’re early when there are no views and 15 likes 😂

[@sakuraonxy560]

I just wanted to say that your singing is amazing and wonderful, so thank you for the wonderful gift. I was thinking it would be really cool if you could possibly maybe sing a Jacksepticeye song, google translated. I don't even know if this will blow up at all

[@Goguleroma]

The only jazzy music i can listen is that piano that you choose. Best choice ever. So soothing.😍 I'm starting to learn guitar for myself and I'm thinking to take some music classes at a conservatory to have a solid ground to build my knowledge all thanks to the motivation u gave me with your music. I love the way you see and interpret music.

[@Touch__grasss]

Hey Malinda! I've been wanting to tell you that after the first few video's I watched of you, I felt like God was just calling me to pray for you. So that is what I do, I pray for you that you will grow in your personal relationship with him and that you can find JOY and PEACE in him. I don't know what your relationship is with him but I hope my prayers are helping. I love you, stay wonderful!

[@luciasuarezramirez3913]

Número tres!!! 😂😍 We love you Malinda (I'm from Spain)🥰

[@jaylake6671]

I can't believe how beautiful you are, like it blows me away every time I see your beautiful eyes.

[@sterliingsilver9592]

I agree with you. This test made it very difficult to identify which beat was in time with the music. It was pretty fun to take though!

[@freyatewnion241]

I completely agree with what you said about the test at the end. I did it myself and while it was a nice sense of achievement to not have entirely disappointed my past music teachers, it did feel like just a bit of fun and can't really be called a test.

[@MarkHunterLionstar]

Greetings, I've played a few instruments a long time ago, mostly by ear. I love listening to music. Trying to get back into playing but finding it harder. I'm 67. Any thoughts would help. I love your KZbin channel. Not just your music but your talks and thoughts.

[@mckenziecalhoun316]

9:00 a conductor dances Fun fact, not all of them do! There is a famous one who litterally barely moves and Toscaniny himself said: "non rompere le balle all' orchestra" which roughly translates as "don' t stand in the way on the orchestra" (litterally it' s "don' t break the orchestra' s balls", tho).

[@elm1496]

Yeah I took this test after I saw another KZbinr do it, however started to do it on my phone and it failed/cut out on THREE DIFFERENT ATTEMPTS (if anybody takes this I highly recommend doing it on your laptop)!!! Fortunately it worked fine on my laptop however at this point I was barely listening because I was so irritated and annoyed with the test. Saying this, I did enjoy the tests, particularly the one with stating which was more on beat! I play bass as my main instrument (and also have a soft spot for percussion) so having that sense of rhythm and being spot on with the tempo is pretty important; it showed because I did much better on that test than I did the other two (though some of those out of tune songs/vocals were PAINFUL!).

[@itsray1878]

Okay, I'll just copy off of you when trying to get into Harvard.

[@dianageist7210]

I used to play the violin. I am good at telling when something is out of tune, I am just not good at getting it back in 😂

[@57thorns]

You said something about cultural context, I believe some of the music at the beginning (in tune, out of tune) may not have been in western twelve tone scale, which means it is jarring to use even when it is in tune. However, even so, one can be able to hear if the music and the singer are in tune.

[@Ap31920]

From what you read it looks like the test is very much in the draft stage. I'm against standardized tests in general but in principle something like this could work to measure someone's talent. The problem is tests like this one could discourage someone with potential from even trying or give someone who has too much faith in them an overinflated sense of their own skill.

[@jadync.5971]

I took it right after watching I was only good at melodic discrimination😂

[@Afkaava]

I love how kind you are

[@anna-maymoon1001]

Omg I've got flashbacks to the theory part of my Grading tests (I used to play flute) I always did terribly on them bc I could never remmeber the start of the tunes that the examiner played. I think a fun thing I'd like to know is if learning an instrument can help people with learning disabilities or will it hinder them? I started playing when I was 7/8, and at that time is when your reading writing skills are kind of solidified/you should get most linguistic rules. My mum was convinced I was a dyslexic child but my teachers did nothing about it until I got to 16/17 and suggested I go get tested. Turns out I am! This has lead to fun things in adulthood like being crap on the phone and making mistakes on data entry work that only turn up when my boss looks through it and needing to leave at least 2 days for proofing anything that needs to be sent off 👍 fml (luckily this comes under "occupational health" so I've got loads of work arounds now) I'm kinda convinced that playing an instrument helped my brain connect dots in different places which helped with my overall development as a child/tween.

[@DevilSeiji]

So, i just got stalked. I told someone in Discord "excuse me for 20 min, while I take this test". And then they send me the link to this Video. I KNOW YOU ARE THERE.

[@jamieestel3839]

I really want to see you in a Starkid show. You would fit so perfectly. I would die. Literally.

[@icsaknunesrossly7021]

"right meow"

[@TheGTRacer97]

I got the exact same overall result as you, with a higher score in the interval test and lower in mistuning and beat alignment (taken music lessons since I was 6). This was a fun test but I agree, it's not really that representative of actual skill

[@helenamerciermenachemoff3583]

Well... I went through this test a couple of months ago and had a similar result... And I really felt the same towards the test : am also a professional singer, and I believe that my training is more responsible for the results than "natural abilities"... I also went through a second similar music test and had something like a 345 score (which made me laugh, really), and I believe it was even more ridiculous than this test : it was finally about understanding harmony, and I really believe that is all about training... It was lots of fun seeing you going through this. Thanks for sharing!

[@shadeparker5922]

I'm glad you responded with a hard NO when it asked if it could predict a person's abilities. Mainly because, as a drummer, I found the tempo section super easy, but the melodic parts(two thirds of the entire test)...completely foreign.

[@_Seraphi3m_]

It’s so cool just watching the view count go up so rapidly when she posted this

[@daisydeaton2679]

I loved the way you were dancing along to the music samples. That made my day. I took the test and scored an 112.

[@tealgalaxy1948]

13 views. 49 likes. 12 comments. (No comments visible) KZbin stayed up too late last night.

[@tealgalaxy1948]

Edit: spelling.

[@jamesslick4790]

11:24 will be my "unknown caller" ringtone!

[@AryaPDipa]

I think the last few Qs was to gather data rather than influencing your score. Like, they were researching whether being sung by parents affects your tuning or not later in adulthood and stuffs. I can imagine them correlating the aswers to those Qs and test results from many participants for research.

[@bellatrixlestrange3677]

When she said "follow me on Spotify" I litterally jumped up grabbed my phone and went straight to Spotify now listening to it lol.