Are You Tone Deaf?

Could you be tone deaf? Over many years of teaching I've received this question a ton! Hope you enjoy this lesson and get some value out of it as well my friends! Love to hear your feedback in the comments.

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[axolotllover]

I'm so paranoid about singing. I only sing when I'm alone, as I cannot risk people hearing me. I just want to know if I'm good, but I'm too scared to be bad! I need help!

[Andrew-vbbm]

Tone deafness is similar to color blindness. They are not completely tone deaf any more than color blind people are unable to detect color.

[michaeljelley]

I know a kid who is tone deaf. He speaks in all one tone and when he sings in class it makes people want to die. And when ever people tell him to stop he says
“ But i actually am a good singer “
So tone deaf people dont understand what a good and bad singer are. And they don’t understand that they are a bad singer. I have met 4 tone deaf people and this has been the case for all of them.

[dichotomae]

True tone deafness is called amusia and it does not affect speech in any way. Amusiacs can speak just fine!

[SavinkovCrew]

"Tone deafness" is an exaggeration, that is used to say, that a person doesn't have much musical talent.

[marquisdehoto]

Just because you haven't met someone doesn't mean it doesn't exist 😅

[sanjeen]

Tone deafness, as I understand, is inability to distinguish tones and recognize same note at different times or instruments. Much like colour blindness. A colour blind person can see colours but they're in their own world where they don't see like 80% of the people see. And unable to distinguish some shades of red from green.

[masacatior]

A real tone deaf individual wouldn't be able to enjoy music.

[miguelporraz]

People tell me I'm tone deaf but I can clearly hear the difference between a Pavarotti and Whitney Houston, I just can't sing in tone to save my life but that doesn't make me tone deaf, it makes me a shitty singer nothing more.

[greenandblue]

when I started playing guitar I thought I was tone deaf because I couldn't find notes by ears or match my voice with the music, but I could tell if it was in wrong scale, it's easy to confuse notes if you are trying to find something in a particular scale but as soon as you use a note outside o that scale you will know that it's surely not what you are looking for, and if you can do that, you are not tone deaf haha.

[fymc]

The inability to perceive and produce pitch has something to do with the right hemisphere, and speech and language perception and production involves the left hemisphere. Different parts of the brain are involved in perceiving tone, and another part is involved in creating tone. For example, the right inferior arcuate fasciculus is involved with tone deafness in such a way that the smaller it is, the larger the degree of perception-creation of tone mismatch.
Tone deafness, also known as amusia, is something physiological, so no it's not a myth.
Multiple studies have shown this. Including "Tone Deafness: A New Disconnection Syndrome" by Loui, Alsop, and Schlaug (2009). :-)

[Mrlucky]

I swear I'm tone deaf, I can't even clap too Queen We will Rock You.

[StevenChisham]

A small percent of the population is tone deaf. It has to do with neurology. Music is a bit different than language surprisingly.

[lurven]

This guy apparently doesn't know what he is talking about, and has misunderstood what being tone deaf is.


Congenital amusia, commonly known as tone deafness, refers to a musical disability that cannot be explained by prior brain lesion, hearing loss, cognitive defects, or lack of environmental stimulation, and it affects about 4% of the population.

[cricketokjn]

I'm too scared to sing in front of people because whenever I record myself I sound horrible, I want to ask how well I can sing but I don't want to get their hopes up.

[Overwatch]

I may not be tone deaf but how do I go from able to hear which note is higher to transcribing songs from the radio?

[wontpower]

There's no other way to put it: you're wrong. Or else you completely misunderstand what it means to be tone deaf. There are people who can identify notes by their frequency (called perfect pitch), and most other people can identify different intervals (called relative pitch). People who are tone deaf simply don't have relative pitch. They are still able to compare the relative frequencies of two pitches, but they can't sing/identify for instance a semitone. As an analogy, if you are completely colorblind, you aren't blind to all colors (meaning total blindness). You can still see shapes and brightness, but you just can't tell the difference between two colors.

[nomyum]

The thing is, I can play sounds that I hear on instruments but I can’t tell what each note is.

[Sunny-zfcm]

I hope this man realizes that one deaf people do exist, but there are two types. There is this "myth" type he is talking about, except it's not a myth. They have some fancy name for it, but it's essentially a person who can hear music just fine, but is bad at playing it. Aka a ton of people. There's also true tone deaf people who can't even enjoy music. That's probably why he probably has never met anyone that is actually tone deaf. It's a little rude of him though. If I was a tone deaf person and someone just called what I have an myth, I would be pretty upset.

[ammosophobia]

What's the difference between the first movement of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 1 and Tartini's violin "Devil's Trill" Sonata? (Other than A Major and G Minor) Or, am I tone deaf?