Can you name the words being spelled out in piano notes (A, B, C, D, E, F, G)? by bazmerelda

Can you name the words being spelled out in piano notes (A, B, C, D, E, F, G)?

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A piano word is a word which can be spelled using only the notes of a piano (A-G). Listen to the notes to determine the word being spelled. Track 1 is a reference scale playing C, D E, F, G, A , B, C.
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Piano Words Quiz

by bazmerelda

Created Jan 9, 2012 in Language
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	AuroraIllumina:	Jan 9th, 2012 at 22:52 GMT		4 points
	I really like this, but I feel it might be a bit short on the time. (I do not have perfect pitch; for the most part I had to narrow it down to a certain combination of letters based on the number of possible ways to play what I hear on white keys, then pick the one that's a word.)

	bazmerelda:	Jan 9th, 2012 at 22:53 GMT		2 points
	Please let me know if I've made any mistakes in this. I was playing the notes on a QWERTY keyboard in a freeware midi-piano program so I couldn't really tell what notes I was hitting and I'm tone deaf so I can't hear when I've made errors myself. I was essentially just playing a memory game where I looked up the correct sequence online then tried to repeat it. I'm sure this will sound painfully slow to a lot of the musicians out playing. I slowed it right down deliberately to try and give non-musicians a chance of figuring it out by learning the sounds as they go along like a kind of audio cryptogram.

	bazmerelda:	Jan 9th, 2012 at 22:56 GMT		3 points
	@AuroraIllumina: Thanks for giving me some perspective. I'm not a musician so it is difficult for me to guage how easy or hard it is to know what the note is by hearing it. I had just given time for 2 playthroughs as is generally standard on clip quizzes. I'll add a couple more minutes and people can keep poking me in the comments until they think I have it right.

	AuroraIllumina:	Jan 9th, 2012 at 22:57 GMT		3 points
	There are no errors.

	chair:	Jan 9th, 2012 at 23:05 GMT		2 points
	I can't wait to try out this quiz (don't have time at the moment, about to run out the door), but one thing I think would be helpful would be a reference pitch at the beginning (i.e. middle C played for a second or two). This would be a great help for those of us with decent relative pitch but no perfect pitch.

	bazmerelda:	Jan 9th, 2012 at 23:13 GMT		3 points
	Good idea. I'll add a whole reference scale so anyone can have a go at trying to match up the sounds. Also, I don't know why but the sound quality on the clips seems to have degraded since being transcoded for soundcloud. They were a lot cleaner when they'd been recorded. I might try re-uploading but I'm not convinced it will fix the problem.

	mmuller86:	Jan 10th, 2012 at 02:00 GMT		3 points
	Quite hard, this one, but nice idea. You know, people with perfect pitch are quite rare, if such a term is even appropiate. But relative pitch is often a pre if you want to get into conservatory. Regardless, it's still not that easy to learn.

	needapausebutton:	Jan 10th, 2012 at 03:38 GMT		4 points
	@bazmerelda - I absolutely love this game. I have no music training but I can hear a song and figure it out on a piano. Doing it "backwards" like this is a great challenge. Since I don't really know the tones by their letters, I am relying greatly on the reference scale - going back and forth to/from it and the clues. So for me, more time would be awesome (maybe 10 minutes would give 30 seconds for that process, per clue). I didn't look at the answers and will come back and play it later also. Again, terrific idea & game (and thanks to chair for suggesting the reference pitch - now the game is playable for non-trained-musicians).

	notanighttroll:	Jan 11th, 2012 at 06:21 GMT		2 points
	I tried to play by hearing intervals. I need to practice my intervals. O_O Such a cool idea!

	Hejman:	Jan 11th, 2012 at 17:47 GMT		2 points
	Spectacular idea! I've played the piano since I was a little kid and still barely got to end in time. It was challenging and fun- a hard combination to find.

	BroadwayBookworm:	Jan 12th, 2012 at 04:31 GMT		2 points
	I love this quiz! Very creative.