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> Music ability was measured using the Swedish Musical Discrimination Test (SMDT) > The SMDT consists of three subtests — pitch, melody, and rhythm discrimina
by thinkloop 9y ago
> Music ability was measured using the Swedish Musical Discrimination Test (SMDT)
> The SMDT consists of three
subtests — pitch, melody, and rhythm discrimination
The test is of fundamental primitives - not about the ability to play a tune. The study doesn't show that practice does not make better music. For example a deaf person who scores 0 on all the tests, can still visually memorize and practice timings and strokes to produce nice songs.