Free · no microphone · about a minute
Do I have perfect pitch?
Twelve tones, one at a time, with nothing to compare them to. Tap which note each one was. At the end you hear all twelve and see how many you named.
Each tone comes after a short hiss that wipes the last one from your ear. You find out how you did at the end, not after each tone. On an iPhone the silent switch mutes the tones.
Tone 1 of 12
Which note was that?
No reference, so go with your first thought. Octaves don't matter: any C is a C.
You named
–of 12
Each tile: the note that played, and below it your answer.
What musicians use is relative pitch: hearing how far apart two notes are. That one you can train.
What perfect pitch is
Perfect pitch, or absolute pitch, is naming a note without hearing any other note first: a car horn is an F, the fridge hums a B flat. Estimates put it at about one person in ten thousand. It's more common among people who had music lessons before the age of six, and among speakers of tonal languages like Mandarin or Vietnamese, but it stays rare even among professional musicians.
Most great musicians don't have it. What they use is relative pitch: hearing how far apart two notes are, so that once you know one, you know the rest. That one you can train, with interval ear training; the tone-deaf test shows where your ear is today.
How this test keeps it fair
Each of the twelve notes plays once, in a random order, mostly around middle C and sometimes an octave lower or higher, so you name the note, not how high it sounds. Before every tone a short hiss clears your ear, and you only see your answers at the end: knowing the last note would let your relative pitch work out the next one. Guessing gets one of twelve, so scoring one or two is what almost everybody gets.
It's a quick look, not a lab test. Phone speakers colour the sound, and some people with perfect pitch name piano notes far better than plain electronic tones like these.
Then make something of it
Whatever you scored, the twelve tones you heard go into Brumm as a melody, in time inside a club track with a beat and a bass. Hum your own line there and it becomes an instrument. No account, no upload.
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