Classical Musicians Take The Harvard Musical IQ Test 

Don't know if the pun was intentional but "famous last words" is the name of a song 😂

This is the last place I’d expect to see Leopon team

@@giuliar2539 wait I didn't know lol!

@@meesguyy ahaha you wouldnt expect me anywhere

maruftim yup, it’s by MCR

exactly! I got a B noooooo we didn't even make it to "A" level, we have to settle for a "B", we are such failures lol

But 84th percentile isn’t too bad

@@snigdhaprakash6485 exactly. totally different than 84/100. 84th percentile is actually quite high.

I got an 89 on a DA and I was so disappointed in myself

Meanwhile, I’m over here with a 19 like 👁👄👁 I thought I was going to do good af too, how embarrassing

I'm playing an alternate temperament!

Its like their version of bob ross's "theres no mistake, theres only happy accidents"

@@concernedliberal4453 I just snort-laughed, lol

I'm playing all the RIGHT notes, but not necessarily in the right ORDER.

Jazz Musicians: It's not playing the wrong notes, it's *S P I C E*

Brett always looks so cute 🥺

Everytime he smiles I marvel at how perfectly straight and healthy his smile is!

i love them both.

I have a mini crush on Brett 🥺👉🏻👈🏻

@@snigdhaprakash6485 I have a HUGE crush on Brett ❤️

Me.

Haha maybe what u acc need is perfect pizz lmao

The pitch one was fucking nonsense

It's actually interesting. I think that "mistuning perception" had little to do with the perfect pitch. I have, if you can say so, the opposite of the perfect pitch and I'm not a musician, so I did awfully in melodic discrimination - only 80. But I scored higher than them in beat alignment (109) and better than Eddy in mistuning perception (110). I think the fact that I listen to opera a lot helped me immensely. Instrumentalists don't always seem to "feel" the vocal music.

@@helenas7948 yeah maybe thats more what it is about. Like with the one in the end, the first was sharp and the second one flat (or the other way around) but there was one that sounded less out of tune I guess.

Brett's mission in life is tormenting Eddy

Lmao 😂 And hey carat 🌸

I’m the thousandth like. Ik no one cares but ya

Tathagato Mukherjee yes

Ashvin Vaidyanathan trust me, you don’t wanna know

I can see this become a new meme soon, like "interesting" and "amazing"...

Me: gets a D on my English quiz IT'S EXPRESSIVE, YA'LL

There was at least one F-bomb they missed.

@@51MontyPython When-

That’s cause they never call themselves professionals

The truley professional people get goofy when it comes to something they are passionate about, when you truley love someone or something you can get pretty goofy

That is me every day at work.

Jona de Vries omg Hahahahahahhaha 😂💀

84% is an Asian fail didn’t u know (same story in my house btw lol)

Well this was based on a curve (but I guess it still applies)

It's not an 84%. He didn't get 84% of the questions right, it means of every person who took this test, he scored more correct than 84% of them. It's a standard and a half deviation above the mean. That's quite a nice score actually.

@@kristaowen5486 not for Asian parents it ain't 😂

@Martha Papadopoulou ikr, we know how triggered they were from the amount they cursed lol

Actually it shows you how much pressure Eddy puts on himself. Because he has perfect pitch and all that, he felt more pressure to get the right answers. And he makes no secret of the fact that there were high expectations from him at home growing up. The fact is though, some of those qs were challenging and they both did very well!

i think that’s why he did worse on the section. he tried to quantify something that’s really wasn’t meant to be. it would be like taking a middle school science test and getting a lot wrong because the answers were geared toward students who are not privy to more advanced assessment.

@@billyt8868 true that, also to Eddy all of the examples might have sounded out of tune. I have perfect pitch too and for me in most of those examples both singers sounded so terribly flat or sharp that I had no idea which answer was “more correct” for the test.

@@Nothermainacc I got all 3 right that we could hear and had to use my gut instinct to what was right, by trying to feel what the singer was more likely to intend. Having studied John Lennon and how he likes to go sharp or flat from the note naturally probably helped me with this

I have perfect pitch and in some examples, both singers were out of tune. It was literally painful. "More" out of tune isn't necessarily more painful so it was hard! But it was the beat discrimination that killed my score :(

he has absolute pitch. If you have absolute pitch, it doesnt mean you have great relative pitch, and it can be pretty unideal to end up w that combo, if you want to do music seriously, spontaneously and live

I took choir in middle school so I think I know what I’m doing 😎

Me too

Very Kdrama transformation

Yesss, he looks so cute and handsome in those glasses, turtleneck, and fluffy hair~

Don't insult Eddy like that XD He looks way better than a guy off the streets of Paris, trust me XD

Is eddy the Asian one?

It’s the Asian Steve Jobs

it was clearly flat

@@leonivanka6656 ikr. im not a musician but i even i heard it is flat

It just sounded so dissonant, which made it unpleasant to listen to. I prefer things to be sharp than flat in music.

@@motherlessgoat72 sharp is dissonant too

Nah the guy was not singing flat. The music was just too sharp, making the guy sound flat while he isn't. Probably incorrect

Hahahha

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@@xu3357 same

And kungpow his chicken

how relatable-

I literally got grounded for anything less than a 94 (I had to bring home an A/A+ or else). (I am not Asian, but I definitely bonded with my Asian friends over how strict our parents were.)

No need for Chinese. Just be Asian.

The A= "ah okay" tho. Bringing home the highest grade and they'll be like "ah okay" is so relatable 😂

I see what you did there homie xD

Yes

Agree with you 100 percent.

Jwisung Pwark That one judge from episode one is shaking

Well Ling Ling got 4000%

weeb,

Washing Machine :P true-

Your username lmao

pls YES

Only IQ for music. Not in general. There are multiple IQ categories....

@@papillon5839 well Obviously! the person who commented this knows that🤦‍♀️ he/she just doesn't put IQ music because its already obvious

Arina no fucking shit

IQ Tests are so stupid, I do the test of an iq society, just for "fun", with the result of 0.17% percentile (or 99.83% if you prefer), but I'm not so smart (I think my intelligence is slighty above the average). This is more stupid than logic IQ test (arts have not scheme), the result of these stupid idea is something like "the academy of arts relegated a 33 years old Van Gogh (he have just painted the De Aardappeleters) to study with 12 years old children because he wasn't good".

@@nicoladc89 If that was not a proctered/administrated IQ test that you had to pay a fee for in SAT-like testing conditions, there's a chance its fake. If its like one of those "See your IQ NOW!" ad's on social media, they lie to make you feel good.

Who plays violin and watches their videos, BUT DOESNT PRACTICE?

I do though

Ken Herold Gerada meeee but i’m excited because i’m going to start playing soon!

Louis Chua Is that a personal attack

Me lol

all pianos including digital pianos are out of tune. Its mechanically impossible for them to be in tune with every note

@@boblon5693 the joke is that theyre literally a robot because it's a digital piano

Robots do not sweat

@@boblon5693 digital pianos don't have mechanics though

@Avisha M nice spelling 👍🏼

Once an Eddy simp, always an Eddy simp ✊

Yes.

Omg where?

I didn't catch it

Mae Crom 2:14 !

everything eddy does is attractive tbh

lol ew

ANGEL BEHAVIOUR

Yes. Why? Why is it so? How can he so especially handsome in this video?

@@onlyalf. LMAO SAME

Bruh 🤣

Aadiv Rath exactly!

Waw both of ur comments are temporarily top comments.

Probably because they've recorded at different times

I legit thought the video was washed out or something. Didn't expect Brett's face to be that pale😥

prob recorded before.

I’m not sure but I think This was the easiest for me

The beat one completely ruined my self esteem.

@@optimusprime4221 that was too hard

@@optimusprime4221 Bruh I scored like 80th percentile on the other 2 tests but I scored like 60th for this one. ;-;

Numbers don't go high enough for Ling Ling's musical IQ

No... Its below 70

@@msa6662 ... Do you get who ling ling is..?

That’s more than the amount of money I make for my whole life

MS A ling ling is the personification of perfection

Good one

OOOOOOOOOOHH THE BUUUUUUUUUURRRNNNNNNNN

Oof

#relatable

@Okra Restaurant the detriments to having perfect pitch

I got most of those tuning ones correct by how much my face squeeze when listening. lol

My husband asked me what was wrong because I “had a face like a slapped a$$”.... I just explained there were very bad sounds coming from a Twoset video.

I haven't played violin in years and still make a face whenever I hear a wrong note. Very nice when you walk in a crowded street and there's a musician playing.

YO SAME OMGGG

@@melyssofficial hehe me too... only just! 119 :D

This test is so flaw i got the questions right on the 2nd time and my point was lower than on the first test

Yeah XD i got 124 and i'm not even a musician

Me too. But I think they would have done MUCH better, if they had used headphones.

I cringed the whole time during the singing section.

Idk why but it seems to me like they were smiling at each other the whole time xD

1:49 *_boom_*

@Yuriko White exactly what it says on the tin

I thought low 90s was A-?

Mikyle Singh in my country (Mongolia) we don’t have A- or A+ we only have As and Bs

@@SinginShooter Well maybe they're Canadian because where I'm from (Canada), an 80%-87% is like an A-, 88-94% is an A and 95%+ is an A+

@@imani7979 That sounds so nice! In America, 90-92% is A-, 93-96% is A, and 97% and above is A+.

@@kaedenpalmer2248 In American education papers are easier in general tho, except English Language

Exactly! Know your statistics, y'all.

Thanks for telling me the difference between percentile and percentage.

Tell that to an Asian mum 😂

Still couldn’t please Asian parents

@@serenalizinnqui8474 I also liked the statement "129 I failed that one". It's the same scale as an IQ scale and that means he was nearly +2 SDs and if this was IQ he'd be very nearly classified as highly intelligent xD

totally agree with what you say, they always inspire me to work harder, musically as well as schoolwise.

I’m trying to learn a new language and their constant encouragement to “Practice!!!” has made me study everyday single day. If I haven’t yet done my session I keep hearing their voices in my head….”Practice!”

When did they say that?

@@reaganb6013: on the description box up there

😢😢

what happend? did they broke up or smth?

Heiw MM Brett had to go to the hospital for personal reasons so they are social distancing rn

asian disapointent*

Reflexively dodging the chancla

Same😂I couldn't hear the difference😂

Love your profile picture xD...

I know right lol EDIT: I just tried to read all the comments in the comment section but I gave up

i am a musician and i still failed

@@brookev2371 well, RIP

@@onlyalf. GOD DAMN U SAID IT WELLLLL u know what's uppp

Y'all sound like simps... bRuH SAME

@@onlyalf. STOP-

LITERALLY

I KEEP COMING BACK BECAUSE OF HIM

@Sarah Sings 😂😂 I'm sure it was out of tune on purpose (at least I'd hope so) !!

😂😂 I actually thought it was “intonation” but the bad intonation must have distracted me from the lyrics.

...i thought it WAS intonation 😂😂😂

me, a percussionist, realising every one of the beats is slightly off

London Hughes I thought being out-of-tune meant that the sound would be unpleasant. If that's the test, I didn't hear anything out-of-tune.

@@quabledistocficklepo3597 I agree a lot can be interpretation, but judging a folk-country modern style of music only is not something a college music student or maybe (depending on the program) even a highschool music student would study/learn. Classical or even just music that is vocally more structured and less in a style that is supposed to slide in/out of tune between notes for performance sake should have been included in the test imo. Not to say the songs played were not good, but from a structured music background where every note must be judged for accuracy rather than specific artist expression is how we can at least train our ears as professionally trained musicians to refine our abilities to perform more works than what we like ourselves to serve a variety of audiences. But I appreciate your point of view as well, having not considered that side of things.

@@HaileyTheThird I KNOW THAT KIND OF DROVE ME MAD TOO. My friend who is a professional percussionist was like wtf this is a college-approved study? Not to say that all of the test was inaccurate because I agree some of what was presented made sense to include, but every part needs to function to its purpose to create accurate results. My professor would have denied my results if I had turned that in.

I think the challenge was hearing which was most out of tune. I agree though, most of them I was like ??? Lol

Hahahahahhahah

jokes on them lol

But a child prodigy will lower it even more

Theresa Chacon yes.

Theresa Chacon AAAAAAAAAAH

Dont need a comma after any

damn good point

Omg I love you guys!!! Y'all's arrangements are some of my favorites of all time!

Some of the supposed out of tune ones sound way better than the in tune ones. The dissonance can really spice things up when the harmonic content is as boring as Pachelbel's canon.

@@footloosefan1234, the point I was trying to make is that this test has little bearing on real musicianship and that is a bit insulting. Some of the questions where the wrong answer sounded better were still answerable, but that still makes the question bad. This test is sloppily made, narrow minded, and irrelevant.

@@TheGlassgubben The test doesn't ask for what 'feels' best, it asks for which is more out of tune and less in time, to which there are absolutely objective answers. The fact that it's hard to tell is the whole point of the test- being able to identify that something is out of tune despite knowing that it may potentially feel more musical is what being a good musician is all about

So what does 102 mean?

"...anything below 90 is pretty much a fail" true, except when you got 90 but almost everyone around you got higher than that, then that is still a fail. *sighhh*

@@aisekrem3216 As an Asian I can tell you this is soooooooo true.

sorel edwin suarez that is the score not the percentage, so 102 I think is still above average or maybe at average but quite a bit less than 115 which was an 84%

@@Halo-lg7rq so, what are the conversion values? What's max score?

Sadie McC yea as a guitarist I got a lot of the ones they didn’t get idk how

Guitarist too, I got more in the rhythm but fucked up the melody part.

Sadie McC whats the website for the test? I wanna try

@@oliviawilson480 search "Harvard music iq test" and you'll get it.

I got 113 and I also think the singer part is arguable for some questions since we don't know whether "out of tune" means the amount of dissonance there is or just how the vocal doesn't fit the chords in accompaniment

haha fr

he looks fine idk

He look really good

tormented artist AHhaha

Riddhi Agrawal yes he is serving looks and i am here for it

struggled really hard with the first test too, but the beat part was really easy for me. the correct answer was just the one I was jamming to lmao

Exactly, percentiles not percentages.

yes, but those percentiles don't represent their ability in the real world, which is probably top 1% at worst

Exactly, I have no musical background whatsoever and I got 101, which demonstrates their ear training payed off (I don't know the real name haha)

Billy Bletso It’s okay for them to be disappointed still though.

I got 107, 67.96%, and I am so sad, because I'm an Asian.

Haha me too at 5:01

The last line is lit

this was nice, but the end was *pain*_ful_

😂

xD

Up-pa, yip yip, they need to see it!

Congrats, you are now a jazz musician👍🏻

I had exactely the same thought and said to myself "do you really wanna watch it? You can't handel it when they're parted" and then I saw them together and they look so happy, so what a luck ♥

J. W. Hahaaha

They probably filmed this before Brett went to the hospital. Still, good enough lol as long as it's not just one of them

@@yeeshinwoon6867 yeah that was my second thought, it is still possible that the next episode will be Eddy alone again, but for the moment it is okay^-^ I really needed to see them both together again

angelique balicolon asian can relate 😞

How can Eddy be so mentally healthy with such a strict mom

Jiaxin Ning he actually really adores his mom(according to prior videos), i guess being strict doesn’t mean she doesn’t love him😗

@@jiaxinning3301 strict doesn't always mean abuse. It can even make kids stronger.

Pohchinki Caleb I agree with you. And I think it’s also because Eddy is strong, kind, and positive, and he knows how to accept his mom’s love.

I scored high but I can't play a tune, so they win anyway xD I wish I could play at least 1/10 like them in exchange :D

So I'm a super intellectual because I know about polyrhythm.

Sean Brown syncopation is not polyrhythm

@@heliolux6904 That's the whole point, polyrythm is more complex than syncopation, so they're a super intellectual instead of an intellectual

Lol yea, there was one question in the beat part which would have been impossibe for non-musicians. I guess you're talking about that one?

Syncopation is the reason why I passed my orchestra audition LMAO

101... STILL ABOVE AVERAGE. "I failed this one."

I think they did not too bad... Here is my data as a reference: IQ:109 (Higher or equal to 72.57% of people) Melodic discrimination: 111 Beat alignment: 112 Mistuning perception: 105 I got IQ109 with this same test and "as well as or better than 72.57% of people", started playing cello and piano at age 6, and singing (Baritone/Tenor) at around age 15, but didn't take it too seriously. I have been the first desk of my high school's orchestra and performed at Universities in the USA and Canada (I am from Hong Kong) for a music tour which includes Eastman School of Music. However, I consider playing music as a hobby only and I am currently studying Medical Engineering at University... From Harvard: "We estimated your score in the same way as real IQ tests do: based on all the other people who have taken the test, we set 100 as the average score, following a Normal distribution with a standard deviation of 15. That means that most people (68% of them) score between 85 and 115 and nearly everybody (95% of people) scores between 70 and 130. " And yes I am an Asian, and I think my score is bad as well... I expected 75-80%...

Yeah they're pretty good but maybe not genius. I'm 15 and started playing piano at 6 (I now play percussion as well) and I got 113 so I think they probably could've done better.

@@innesbarrett1805 i was talking about the first result. An iq that is 145+ is considered genius-level and since one of the two had a 145+ result in that category, i made my initial comment. I didn't say they were overall music geniuses.

Potato literally agree! Sooo good looking

Was totally gonna say that

And that high neck shirt...

@@flo705 yaassss

I really thought I was the only one👀

Lol I get like that and I’m Hispanic but very true on what you said lol

Yes. Instead of being stupidly self satisfied and saying; oh ! I am glad I didn’t fail!, oh I did better than I expected!!

Or it's just a joke. And they realize it just fine...

R.I.P Etika wow you really need an English dictionary, buy one, go to the letter “j” then search until you find the word “joke” You’ll become a lot less of an ass and people in real life might start interacting with you. Alternatively you can use google, or just pull your head out of your own ass long enough to get some social awareness.

TacOcatT wow, you need to open a dictionary, find the letter “H” and look for the word “Hypocrite”. Imagine getting offended over a RU-vid comment and telling someone to be less of an ass while simultaneously downplaying them. Calm down intellectual, no one gives a shit, lol.

Uhhhhh

IKR

Can't agree more

I've been wondering the same.😔

Me too I reacted the same even tho I don’t have perfect pitch , I got low score on pitch one but I got 100% in rhythm one

That's how overconfident people fail! ;)

Shows that the test is flawed. The first test is comically simple but then again shows ridiculous examples, the rhythm and pitch ones are very questionable. In the test they even admit that it might be wrong and needs changing - I think it's fundamentally flawed, judging from everything I've seen in other videos about it as well.

Dude, spoilers!

To be fair Brett was able to tell if the singers tune was flatter or sharper. With a trained ear in music(brett 20+yrs) he may not have perfect pitch, but he can tell the difference. Perfect pitch I think comes in more for notes and other music theory applications. But most people can tell the difference when something is a bit sharper or flatter

@@natedogmarik2554 yes I definitely agree!! just teasing eddy a little :'D

우현서 They’re a *simmering* channel

한국인이다 우와아아아앙

this is what ive been trying to put into words like??? eddy wow

Read the description :p

@@tarosykes ohhhhhh haha thanks!

I've just lost 1 hour like that X), but at least that was interesting

Again me: reading this comment

This is exactly me lmao, for no reason I stopped writing for my thesis and went to do the test

@@yukizhang4981 Good luck with your thesis! We all know how painful it can be!

What Didi you score?

dropping truthbombs

Idk if perfect pitch is even a thing really? When i studied music in music school i was said to have perfect pitch, but what really was up is that i knew musical theory very well and just knew what the different notes sound like. My life unfortunately did not lead to me becoming a pro musician and i forgot all the theory, now i can still discern differences in sound, but couldn't actually tell what notes are being played, because i forgot about it.

@@ievajachimaviciute2219 Perfect pitch is a thing (but you can't learn it). Knowing what's the different notes sound like is pretty much the definition of perfect pitch, so you probably had it. You can loose it, though, especially during adolescence.

@@eBvsaca some new studies have been done that suggest you can actually learn it as an adult.

@@ievajachimaviciute2219 That would be quite the revolution in the domain. Have you got a serious source for those studies?

Me as a musician: don’t understand a sing,e thing they’re saying.

Takeshi moood

Contour? Ain't that a make-up thing?

Me as an absolute non musician: scored 108, but probably a litte lucky

Peising Peising You and me, too, buddy.