How musical are you? BBC online test
Mar 1, 2011 at 1:30 PM Thread Starter Post #1 of 12

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Quite a fun test, takes about 20 minutes and you will participate in a worldwide study about musicality.
 
Note: I skipped the first test, where one has to group sound clips into 4 genres, as I thought that there was something faulty with the sound files (they only played for less than 1sec!) but I later found out that it is supposed to be like that.
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/labuk/experiments/musicality/
 
Enjoy.
 
 
 
Mar 2, 2011 at 4:09 PM Post #2 of 12
Fun test. I scored a 94 on musical perception.
Interestingly I scored low on enthusiasm for music.
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Mar 2, 2011 at 5:29 PM Post #3 of 12
Yeah seems a bit odd. I got 99% for musical perception but 17% for emotional response, when I answered in complete agreement to whether music had an emotion response to me. 78% for enthusiasm. 60% for social creativity. 98% for curiosity. 17/18 for on/off beat. 7/9 high for tap the beat, 1 medium, 1 low. Melody memory 6/12. I have a terrible memory in regards to everything in life lol.
 
Fun test :)
 
Mar 2, 2011 at 6:15 PM Post #4 of 12
Yeah... pretty fun.  98% on perception and 5% on curiosity!  I heard what happened to the cat that got too curious!
 
The beat matching part was tricky- I thought- because a lot of pop/r&b/rap music today has beats that are intentionally slightly off. So even though it's technically off-beat, it still sounds right. 
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Mar 3, 2011 at 7:52 AM Post #5 of 12
99% on musical perception as well. Head Fi is a place where only musical geniuses meet or the test is slightly off...
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65% on curiosity, and 80 ish on emotional response. 67 on the social creativity and 90 ish on enthusiasm.
 
Mar 3, 2011 at 8:29 AM Post #6 of 12
Enthusiasm - 66%
Perception - 99%
Emotional Connection - 34%
Social Creativity - 3% (I've always been awful with lyrics and such and I don't ever sing around people because I suck at singing.)
Curiosity - 59%
 
Was a really neat test, thanks for the link.
 
Mar 3, 2011 at 9:26 AM Post #8 of 12
Enthusiasm - 70%
Perception - 99%
Emotional Connection - 23%
Social Creativity - 78%
Curiosity - 84%
 
One of my melody memories was wrong, most of the tap rhythms were high, two medium, I got two match the beats wrong and my genre placing was all over the shop.
 
Apparently I should listen to various shows on 6music and Zane Lowe on Radio1 which I listen to most days anyway.
 
 
 
Mar 3, 2011 at 4:16 PM Post #9 of 12


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99% on musical perception as well. Head Fi is a place where only musical geniuses meet or the test is slightly off...
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65% on curiosity, and 80 ish on emotional response. 67 on the social creativity and 90 ish on enthusiasm.



Yea, weird that everyone scored so well on perception.
 
Seems that I scored the lowest here with 94%.
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Either that or people that scored low don't want to post it.
 
Mar 3, 2011 at 10:48 PM Post #10 of 12
Thanks for posting the test, it was quite interesting I would have to say but it seemed a little lenient on my perception grade of 99%.
 
I got 87% enthusiasm, 99% musical perception (I honestly did awful on every single one of their teststest, idk how I got 99%), 76% emotional connection, 40% social creativity, 49% musical creativity.
 
Mar 5, 2011 at 4:26 PM Post #11 of 12

Enthusiasm 96%

Musical Perception 99%

Emotional Connection 64%

Social Creativity  44%

Musical Curiosity 14%

  1. Group the Music
  2. Your 1st group
     
  3. rock
  4. rock
  5. rock
  6. rock
     
  7. Your 2nd group
  8. hip hop
  9. jazz
  10. jazz
  11. jazz
     
  12. Your 3rd group
  13. jazz
  14. hip hop
  15. hip hop
  16. hip hop
     
  17. Your 4th group
  18. pop
  19. pop
  20. pop
  21. pop
     
  22. Match the beat

  23. 1,4,7,11wrong  Rest OK

Tap to the beat

2,4 medium rest High
 

Melody memory

1,2,3,9,11 wrong rest ok
 
Mar 5, 2011 at 6:08 PM Post #12 of 12
What a boring test....
I got 16/16 on group the music.
I got 12/18 on match the beat.
I got 5/9 high, 3/9 medium, 1/9 low on tap to the beat.
I got 8/12 on match the melody.
For tapping to the beat I sort of tapped randomly at the beginning until I found the beat and I always tried to get one last tap in before time ran out so that might have brought some of the scores down.
53% enthusiasm for music - Eh. I'm very enthusiastic about music IMO...
94% for musical perception - Reasonable.  I used to play piano for ~5 years so I should definitely be above average, but I never enjoyed it and never felt like I was especially gifted at it.  I can't play by ear.
2% for emotional connection - Reasonable.  I have never perceived a connection between my music and my mood, besides being happy when listening to good music and annoyed when listening to bad music.
37% for social creativity - Eh.  I'm pretty open to singing around friends/acquaintances (unless it's a Taylor Swift song.  I save those for my private time...).  I don't sing around strangers but why would anyone unless they're paid to?  And off-beat clapping to performances is the worst.  Ugh.
29% for musical curiosity - Reasonable I suppose.  Most of what I listen to has been reviewed by Pitchfork at one point or another so my variety isn't the strongest.
 

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