📌SMALL MISTAKE: at 8:39 in the playback of how the music sounds I played B natural when it should have been B flat. Of course, the music still sounds nothing like “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” even with the B flat, but I thought I’d mention it. Thank you to the commenters who brought the error to my attention. 😊
I'm not over the Amadeus Cafe that had all of Mozart, in the public domain, to write on the menu cover, and wrote the Flintstones theme. I'd almost believe it was on purpose.
8:20 I know you probably know this and just used the wrong words, but for anyone who doesn't know, it's not multiples of 2 or 4 (which could incude things like 6 or 12), but specifically powers of 2 (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, etc)
At 8:38, when you played the music to Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, you missed the flat in the key signature. That B flat changes everything. If you play the music in the correct key signature, you will find that the written music still sounds completely wrong.
I like how you used Japanese as an example, because that's another genre of messed-up tattoos (backwards, missing or extra strokes on the characters, made-up characters, or just weird words). 間違えている indeed!
@@wifty362 True, but you are overthinking it. Most instruments are in the treble clef by default, and considering she is a female singer, she can only be in the treble clef - so it could be implied.
I'm not overthinking, it's just basic knowledge.@@mandysberi People use the treble clef mostly nowadays, but the piano also uses bass clef, while the viola uses alto clef. In old times, people used to use the soprano, mezzo and alto clef for singing.
@@wifty362 i feel like most people default to treble clef (at least i do as a flute player) but yeah people who play or sing bass clef music might be confused at first lol
3:45 - I wouldn't give this one a hard time simply because it's obviously meant as a kind of pareidolia. It doesn't matter tha the clefs are based on other letters - they still **LOOK LIKE** S and C.
I had an online merch store for piano fans in the past. When trying to source products, almost always from China, these kind of mistakes happen in the MAJORITY of cases, they are not the exception. None of these "designers" have the capacity to understand how a piano keyboard looks and how notes are supposed to look; it is quite mind-boggling. The fact that they get the piano keyboard wrong in more than 50% of the cases is particularly astounding, as this does not require "reading" skills. It really showed me that some brains are just built differently.
Yeah, that's pretty sad, really. On the one had "music is the universal language" but then you have the reality that musical language is anything but universal.
I think the “Treble clef as the letter S” tattoo explains the tendency to draw them incorrectly - I bet a lot of people think it’s supposed to be a capital S in cursive handwriting, because those do bear a strong resemblance to backwards treble clefs.
I have a periodic table of music notation. I got this gift for Christmas and love it to death. There’s just one issue. It shows a rest symbol in the box above the word… *arpeggio*. Either they meant to put the arpeggio symbol, or the word “Quarter rest”. Not just this, but I have a cover for my desk for when I move into college in the fall, and it shows a bunch of music theory stuff; circle of fifths, scales, chord progressions, etc. They have a keyboard on the pad too… With the treble cleft having “GBDFA” like the bass on the bottom. Bruh 🙄
Reminds me of an old Tom and Jerry cartoon where in moving animation they take the manuscript of written musical notes off the page and run around -and the orchestrated music correctly matches what the cartoonists have done (incredibly detailed and clever). Also later watching rock groups fingers to see if they bother miming the chord shapes to songs they promote. John Lennon can be seen in a few vids purposely not aping along to the vocal or piano playing -as a joke, while Paul cracks up.
6:17 even in the later pictures of keyboards there is a part where the middle black key overlapps just 1 white key in the middle. in other words: to many white keys again. or did i get this wrong?
6:19 definitely looks like it was machine-generated. Any graphic designer with even the least amount of knowledge about pianos would have done it better. Like, I get mixing up the order of black and white keys, or what side the note beams go, but that is a monstrosity. And I love 7:30 because those are indeed difficult time signatures for many people, and it looks like whoever designed that _knew_ that. It looks like those were chosen on purpose 😆
David, you're not mentioning the third mistake on the tattoos at 1:57, which is that the key signature clearly has its sharp on E instead of F. I'd love to hear that surreal mode but I'm afraid it contains a duplicate note at the beginning, unless we're giving up equal temperament 🎵🎶
Actually, I believe the natural mark is a stylised “B” as it dates back to when there were two types of B, “hard B” which was B natural, and “soft B” which was B flat. 😊😊
Your mastery of child psychology is matched only by my vulnerability to it! Now I want to learn how to read sheet music!!! Well played, good Sir, well played!!!
i've been reading sheet music since i was 4 and yet i never knew that the treble clef is a stylized G and the bass clef is a stylized F ( it's also likely that i did know this as i was learning how to read notes, but promptly forgot as i got older...) 😵i always thought of them as "those funky looking symbols at the start"
i think the GAGA tattoo is a great little idea that works, but the fact that it was wrong AND fixed, oh boy. i would have just left it, would've been kinda quirky.
Well, the other problem with the tattoo is there's no clef, so it could be BCBC, or really just about any other pair of notes, given the existence of C clefs.
My cousin owns the keyboard tie. I asked him 'are you aware that your tie is missing a key'. He said 'yes, I just like wearing it to annoy people and see if they'll pick up on it' and I find that hilarious
5:04 that's not just reflected. The notehead is the right way around but the stem is on the wrong side. If you just flipped it, the notehead would be angled the wrong way.
3:40 Maybe Lady Gaga wanted the Jaws shark theme, but that would have had to be fixed by adding a line on the bottom so we have B,C rather then G,A, which isn't a semitone interval. The keyboard tie hurt me when I looked at it. The one backward one on the clock thing I can almost pretend is a wild jazz note - lol
I read that present treble clef can possibly be derived from both G and S. "A possible addition to this evolution was suggested in a 1908 article in The Musical Times, which argued that the contemporary form of the treble clef is a result of 17th century notational technique in which multiple symbols were used indicate both pitch and vocal sound, with “G, Sol” being a common combination that was eventually shortened to G.S. and then “gradually corrupted by careless transcription” into the treble clef." Don't know if that's true, but it certainly does look like a combination of both letters more than just a hyper-stylized G
Miranda Lambert, top American country star, singer, songwriter, guitarist, has a pair of crossed pistols with angel wings tattooed up her guitar chord (left) forearm; she's from Texas. Piper Ally has a full bagpipe on her leg. They opted out of music notation, interestingly, perhaps to avoid such critiques.
1:58 The eighths in All You Need Is Love are swung, so I wouldn’t have mixed dotted-eighth-and-sixteenth with eighths like that. I’d have chosen one of them (both are commonly used for notating swung eighths) and stuck with it throughout.
I have the first line of Elgar's cello concerto tattooed on my left arm. Looks amazing and is quite accurate as I just took it out of the original sheet music.
I have a similar gripe with a very popular channel who made a very succesful video about my favorite soundtrack, where most of the sheet music in the video were either wrong or upside-down.
Some examples of 'questionable scoring' can be found in Stravinsky's L'Histoire Soldat. For some reason, (I think it's in one of the marches) in a passage with a steady beat and an unwavering time signature throughout, he arbitrarily resets the bar line whenever a new voice is added, even though this only makes the other parts harder to read. Why? Who knows, perhaps he was just having a bit of fun there.
l'Histoire is full of moments where there's a regular ostinato that suggests one time signature, and irregular rhythms in melodic voices that suggest others. In notation Stravinsky favors the melodies to determine how the music is barred (and thus how it's conducted), even though as listeners our ears might be more anchored to hear the ostinato as the prevalent rhythm.
@@MichaelPuterbaugh Perhaps that's the case, but I'm talking about a section of music that is continuously rhythmic and relatively unchanging (and decidedly pre-melody). Let me put it this way: Nobody transcribing that piece from a recording would've altered the meter, or have even known where to do so. It was just a funny and arbitrary thing for a composer to put extra effort into writing into the score.
You missed that the clef was positioned wrong in the second one too, it is meant to sit on the G line, it's a G, it is meant to mark where G is, it is just kinda sitting around below the staff.
A couple things to add! The GAGA tattoo can still be criticized to a small degree, because there is no clef and therefore we technically don't know the notes are G and A except through other context. Me being someone who mainly reads in treble clef and enjoys lady gaga got it pretty easily but just saying that there is criticism to be had here, if desired. The other thing was the key signature in one example having an e# instead of f#! Very fun video 🥰
I've seen a variation of the "BAND GEEK" design that didn't have clefs. That way one would assume that the bottom stave is bass, so the message doesn't work.
Everyone always mentions how the treble clef circles a G, but never how it also circles the G an octave above, and how it's tails curl, circles middle C.
My favourite thing in the "mugif" genre is a British quiz show that was supposed to be called DUEL but to indicate there was a big cash prize they styled it DU£L. The £ symbol is a stylised L.
I remember seeing a T-shirt with the famous four-note motif from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony transcribed on the front, but the fourth note was mistakenly notated as an F instead of the correct E-flat. Brett and Eddy made fun of the error on their RU-vid channel, TwoSetViolin.
In the first example we also have a quarter note on the and of 2 in each measure, which, while not technically incorrect, is just very bad practice for readability and absolutely goes against convention.
Also this is a "shame on you, David Bennett", but the accidental on the B in the You Are My Sunshine tattoo would carry over to the subsequent B, so there should not be a step down.
The purple keyboard at 6:14 is still incorrect because there are too many white notes. The G#/Ab black note is on top of a white note also. Love the video! This is a little different from your usual content but it is refreshing and interesting. Thanks!
Not going to comment on tattoo for body esthetics. When it's intended to be on paper, we can enter the notes on a notation program on computer that would prevent you from entering a note or clef wrong... like the automatic spell check in a word processor.
