The reason this seems to work for most people is because they identify the tone/pitch of the notes relative from each other, thus making this very false rendition of this song suddenly 'click' and sound alright.

So my guess is that having great difficulty hearing the melody doesn't mean you're tone deaf. I think it means you're better than the average person at discerning the notes' pitch absolutely. The pinnacle of this phenomenon is called 'Perfect Pitch', which is quite rare. But we might have something close to it.

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Thanks Lucky. It took me about 5 minutes after registering before good ol' Siftbot banned me. Off to a good start, I suppose.

Anyways.

I've been lurking around for a year shy of a decade here on the sift. Never felt compelled to sign up, but I think the time has come to give something back by sharing interesting videos. Documentaries, music, stuff like that.