Test your musical skills in 6 minutes!

While working at the music and neuroimaging lab at Beth Israel/Harvard Medical School in Boston, I developed a quick online way to screen for the tonedeafness. It actually turned out to be a pretty good test to check for overall pitch perception ability. The test is purposefully made very hard, so excellent musicians rarely score above 80% correct. Give it a try!

I was disappointed to only score 72.2% on the tone deaf test, but was quite surprised to score 80% on the rhythm test. I thought it would be exactly the opposite. I did, however, rush through the first test. After seeing how hard it was, I took my time on the second.