Reviewing bad music notation tattoos and products

📌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.

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The reason Lady Gaga got that tattoo is because the notes on the stave are GAGA, not for the melody itself. I’m surprised you didn’t pick up on that!

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.

Ruthless. Flexing on their tattoos. When he started playing the music on the tattoo with a guide hitting each note killed me.

The all you need is love tattoo also has the key signature marked with an E#, which is definitely not in G major

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.

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)

3:30 With the top ledger line added, if it's a treble staff, it spells her name: G A G A

I'm a big fan of the sign my music teacher had up in her room that said "students while the teacher is talking: (whole rest with fermata)"

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!

The "artistic rendition" of the saxophone at 5:52 is about as accurate as the piano that follows it.

@3:28: Because it spells GAGA!

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.

"I need a ... quarter rest." You could have asked for a whole rest, now get back to work.

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.

You forgot to mention this tattoo, 2:00, has another mistake, inventing a new key signature as well with just an E sharp!

* double checking my treble & bass clef tattoos are facing the correct way * phew 🥳

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 🙄