Having just completed a relativly straight forward tab from a music score, I wondered if there are music scores about which would defy any attempt to convert them to a tab. I found some horrors. Mostly black ink with some small patches of white showing through. This is the worst example I could find. Its entitled Death Walz with 2 variants. If you can find anything more challenging, please post it. I am no great musical talent so I can judge them only visually.

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OMG!!!
Are there really people who can read that stuff??!!

certainly the second one is fake

Agreed. The second one is fake.

The first one, however, is "real", albeit unplayable by one person. The composition Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz (from "A Tribute to Zdenko G. Fibich" ) by John Stump is an unpublished satirical work written and copyrighted in 1980 that is best known for, simultaneously, its humor and unplayability. The piece is most often seen hanging on the walls in music rooms and orchestral settings for the musicians' amusement, due to musical directions such as "Rigatoni", "light explosives now... and... now", "insert peanuts", "Moon-walk", "release the penguins", and "Like a Dirigible"

Hear it: Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 03/25/2013 03:02AM by EarthDogHarpin.

The video posted above by EarthDogHarpin has an interesting visualisation. It looks like Tetris pieces falling onto piano keys. I'm glad I now heard it (and seen it). I guess the Hindu Goddess Kali with 10 arms could easily manage it on one piano. I've just now tabbed the part beginning 3'08" in the video for a diatonic harp. It goes like this . . .
(1 -1 2 -2 3 -3 4 -4 5 -5 6 -6 -7 7 -8 8 -9 9 -10 10)
(1 -1 2 -2 3 -3 4 -4 5 -5 6 -6 -7 7 -8 8 -9 9 -10 10)
(1 -1 2 -2 3 -3 4 -4 5 -5 6 -6 -7 7 -8 8 -9 9 -10 10)
(1 -1 2 -2 3 -3 4 -4 5 -5 6 -6 -7 7 -8 8 -9 9 -10 10)

...... Not even cool thats just horrible i cant even imagine :0 LOL