MusicReasonEar Training and Playable Exploration
Is this the same pitch you just heard?
Hear a reference pitch, wait through a chosen delay, then hear a candidate and decide whether it is the same or different. This tool never claims to test absolute pitch, since the reference is always sounded first; it measures short-term relative pitch retention only. No recording occurs at any point.
Answer
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Understand
Holding a pitch in memory across a delay is a genuinely different skill from recognizing an interval played immediately back to back; the delay is the whole point of this exercise, not an inconvenience to minimize. A longer delay makes the task progressively harder as the memory trace of the reference pitch fades, which is exactly why the delay is a stated, controllable input rather than a fixed constant.
Worked examples
When the candidate is generated identical to the reference, the correct answer is always "same", regardless of how long the delay was. When the candidate is generated with an applied interval, such as a perfect fifth, the correct answer is "different", and the tool always applies exactly the interval it declared, never a different one silently.
Method and limitations
Each trial picks a seeded reference pitch inside the declared range, then a candidate that is either identical or shifted by one of a declared set of comparison intervals. The reference and candidate are both sounded only after your own gesture, with the delay timed between them exactly as declared, and the correct answer is checked against the generated data rather than any performance measurement. This tool makes no claim about testing absolute pitch, a specific and much rarer ability than the relative retention this exercise practices; it also carries a listening-level caution rather than assuming a safe playback volume for every device.
A short delay of one or two seconds tests something closer to immediate echoic memory, while a delay of twenty or thirty seconds tests genuinely longer retention, a meaningfully different demand on the ear; there is no single "correct" delay to train at, which is exactly why it stays a stated input rather than a fixed constant. Choosing a comparison interval close to a semitone makes the task noticeably harder than choosing a wide interval like a perfect fifth, since a small pitch difference is easier to mistake for measurement noise in memory.