I don't know why but, the part that bothers me the most about the death waltz is that it isn't a waltz. Not that it sounds like crap but, that it's in 4/4.
Death Waltz really wasn't meant to be anything... it seemed Stump just enjoyed putting notes on a page. Edit: If you look at the video it says in parentheses "I had to make it 4/4 but it sounds the same)
So, in conclusion: The first song is an impossible version of a remix of a song called "U. N. Owen was Her?" and the second song is "Death Waltz," a song that was made as a joke and wasn't meant to be played. Since both songs are *impossible* to play, a mixup happened to where someone from Japan (or Korea) thought the impossible "U. N. Owen was Her?" remix was INSTEAD the impossible "Death Waltz" and that same person uploaded "U. N. Owen was Her?" To RUclips under the false name of Death Waltz and the rest is history. Why does this songs name have to be so fucking complicated jfc
Epic Maniac “U.N Owen was her?” isn’t impossible to play on one piano just extremely difficult to play and read the sheet music so very possible like some of the world’s hardest music pieces ever written for instruments it’s still playable just difficult
To clarify, UN Owen Was Her wasn't impossible. This is cause it wasn't a music piece in the first place. People just needed to know how to cover the song themselves as long as it sounded right. Second, it wasn't the same person from Japan that uploaded the video under Death Waltz name. Marasy8's video was appropriately named as "UN Owen Was Her", the problem was a guy who uploaded a nightcore remix on synthesia that's named "Death Waltz" which was a cover name for the remix. People just stupidly assume it's John Stump's. Partially it's the synthesia's uploader's fault for not clarifying it was just a cover title, the other is the mass general audience assuming things without thinking about it first. It was made worse when someone uploaded marasy8's video of him playing UN Owen Was her and changed it to Death Waltz I know this history 'cause I was a former Touhou fan, and this has been a thing for over a decade, and it annoys me to no end.
Well no, fishes having seizures wasnt added until Stumps 4th piece, it was intended for use in death waltz but the released penguins kept eating the seizing fish so one had to be cut and as such the fish were droped
Soooo.... John Stump DID right a song as a joke that was meant to be impossible to play and was known as the Death Waltz, but somewhere along the line a significantly more entertaining remix of a remix of a song from a video game that is equally if not vastly more impossible to play became attributed to him instead of the actual piece? Did I get that right?
No he actually did write this, I personally own the original sheet music he wrote, as he was my uncle. He wrote it because he knows the notes musical notes so well and can hear the music without even hearing it and has never even heard the song to this day, since he died before these videos ever surfaced
What astonishes me the most is that even during that final Last Brutal Sister part around 3:20, where there's run-throughs all over, the melody is still recognizable. Meanwhile, the actual Death Waltz sounds like a cat is jumping around on the piano, getting startled by the noises it's causing.
yeah sit a 6 year old on a piano dada death waltz.... how could wood it be ilke on got talent there comes in 20+ pianists doing black midi in a group :D they sperete the notes so that they can play it would be hillarious :D
Death Waltz by John Stump is a joke sheet not meant to be played. Not because it is impossible (certainly not), but because it is silly. Most of the sheet does not even make sense, like what are you supposed to do with the bicycle? And actually using living animals is where I think most people would stop thinking of trying to perform it...
Wish I could show those sheets to some now long-dead composers. Like, if I had a time machine this would be my actual hobby. Of course, I'd also bring an playback device to let them listen to it as well. Saving the world? Screw that! I'd rather mess with powdered men and fancy fingerers than do any of that nonsense!
Nobody knowing the backstory of the music 'death waltz'? Okay, here it goes.... An American pianist had so many dept that forced him almost to death. And one day, a real threat message arrived to him. Later, he met his friend and told him to figure the truth, not telling why he was saying such a thing(but the friend knew that he had too many depts.)in the message, there were the time and place he'll be threatened to be dead, so he quickly made this music which has 66/66 beats(devil's number, showing how desperate he was), a glasses shaped and knife shape placed notes(how the guy looks and what the guy will use to threat him), and finally, the time, 1:21, and HELP ME written surrounded by black notes.
I think the reason UN Owen remix gets confused with the Death Waltz is also because of the chord sequence at 2:45. Just listening to it for the first time made my mind go "Oh yeah, that's definitely dealing with something ominous eg death".
Tbh the real one goes from "large cat rolling around on piano keys" to "I can kinda hear a song here?" No wonder UN Owen/Flandres theme/whatever the hell you call it is more popular
The real death waltz is my life. It's sounds crazy at times, but also somewhat put together at others. It also has just enough melody to make you believe that they know what they're doing. It also rests a lot... ba-dum-tiiissss. I'll see myself out.
Trying to learn either of these songs: Teacher: Now let's hear what you've been practicing Me: I found a little problem... I only have 2 hands and for this piece you need about three times that.
The funny thing is that its not just the song there is confusion over, but also flandres personality, i.e canon vs fandom. But then zun released his manga that shows flandre in a new light adding even more confusion to her personality lol. She doesnt get any breaks what so ever. xD
Also: The real Death Waltz has its own dedicated sheet music video, made by yours truly!
ruclips.net/video/n-Ai8BSCzpo/видео.html
Un Owen was her: flandre's theme.
Death waltz: me trying to play Un Owen was her.
Omg, I can't 😂😂😂
Death note: me calling the guy dying on the piano real music
The sheet music looks like the random splotchs of black ink they use in therapy.
"So what do you see here?"
"...Uh, a butterfly?"
I see Death Waltz
**Border of Life starts playing**
Rorschach test
a n i m e
n
i
m
e
Girls.
Ok, who spilt ink all over the music sheets?
Zaara Owen john stump?
One music sheet is just all blackened by steeping in ink, no visible white. Imagine what notes that would be.
@@Ethan_Moeller85 Just bodyslam the piano lmao.
I confess...
It's the video📸
Turns out it made the sheet completely impossible. Wow.
When it's a death WALTZ but it ain't even in 3|4
The real Death Waltz explains my life at the moment.
Same
Julia B same
steps to play this song:
1 - get a piano.
2 - start practicing.
3 - have a seizure while playing.
4 - profit.
step 5: release the penguins.
Step 6: pull german hand pedal.
The world needs to know this . . . Sheesh, this is the only video actually showing the death waltz as it truly is.
theres more and then theres the people whove played touhou
ruclips.net/video/sCgT94A7WgI/видео.html
Here’s a recording of people playing the actual death waltz (at a very slow speed)
Touhou's "Death Waltz" : crazy yet enjoyable.
John Stump's Death Waltz : litterally DEATH music.
BTW, where is the penguins??
Alex Hndr emmmm...enjoyable? sounds like my cat jumping on my piano.
are*
Sorry, this is only the performance of the piano version not the original orchestral one. So no peanuts and cattles
@@debbie2626 You probably mean the real Death Waltz.
I don't know why but, the part that bothers me the most about the death waltz is that it isn't a waltz. Not that it sounds like crap but, that it's in 4/4.
I wondered about that - waltzes are usually 3/4.
I know right.
me5141 Yeah. The title still sounds ominous... and impossible. Still very fitting.
Death Waltz really wasn't meant to be anything... it seemed Stump just enjoyed putting notes on a page.
Edit: If you look at the video it says in parentheses "I had to make it 4/4 but it sounds the same)
waltzs arent always in 4/4 just usually
good explanation
holy shit, its the midi guy
this is the worst response I have seen to a comment yet.
thanks for clearing my confusion about those songs
whats with the response.
wut
michael_jpm lol what?
???
That reply pictures the confusion
So, in conclusion: The first song is an impossible version of a remix of a song called "U. N. Owen was Her?" and the second song is "Death Waltz," a song that was made as a joke and wasn't meant to be played. Since both songs are *impossible* to play, a mixup happened to where someone from Japan (or Korea) thought the impossible "U. N. Owen was Her?" remix was INSTEAD the impossible "Death Waltz" and that same person uploaded "U. N. Owen was Her?" To RUclips under the false name of Death Waltz and the rest is history.
Why does this songs name have to be so fucking complicated jfc
Epic Maniac “U.N Owen was her?” isn’t impossible to play on one piano just extremely difficult to play and read the sheet music so very possible like some of the world’s hardest music pieces ever written for instruments it’s still playable just difficult
To clarify, UN Owen Was Her wasn't impossible. This is cause it wasn't a music piece in the first place. People just needed to know how to cover the song themselves as long as it sounded right.
Second, it wasn't the same person from Japan that uploaded the video under Death Waltz name. Marasy8's video was appropriately named as "UN Owen Was Her", the problem was a guy who uploaded a nightcore remix on synthesia that's named "Death Waltz" which was a cover name for the remix. People just stupidly assume it's John Stump's. Partially it's the synthesia's uploader's fault for not clarifying it was just a cover title, the other is the mass general audience assuming things without thinking about it first. It was made worse when someone uploaded marasy8's video of him playing UN Owen Was her and changed it to Death Waltz
I know this history 'cause I was a former Touhou fan, and this has been a thing for over a decade, and it annoys me to no end.
yes! you make more sense than the vid
@@austinzhao1012 The video already make sense, you're the one that can't follow the video.
Hyper Vanilo I mean, I was trying to appreciate his comment...
at least touhou sounds like music, the real death waltz sounds like a bunch of fishes having a seizure on a piano. still cool though.
true XD
The original death waltz was a joke xd
if they weren’t in 4/4 and going at that tempo then it’d be slow or even faster
That’s the purpose
Well no, fishes having seizures wasnt added until Stumps 4th piece, it was intended for use in death waltz but the released penguins kept eating the seizing fish so one had to be cut and as such the fish were droped
Now I see why it's called death waltz (john stump)
It kills your ears trying to listen to it
GamerGecko26 put it in ear rape and it is truly the death waltz
GamerGecko26 it even kills the piano that try’s to play it
and if you tried to play it you would die of exhaustion
Student: “How am I supposed to play every note at once?”
Teacher: “Hell if I know”
Lay on the piano 🥲
Soooo.... John Stump DID right a song as a joke that was meant to be impossible to play and was known as the Death Waltz, but somewhere along the line a significantly more entertaining remix of a remix of a song from a video game that is equally if not vastly more impossible to play became attributed to him instead of the actual piece? Did I get that right?
Essentially.
They're all enjoyable though.
No he actually did write this, I personally own the original sheet music he wrote, as he was my uncle. He wrote it because he knows the notes musical notes so well and can hear the music without even hearing it and has never even heard the song to this day, since he died before these videos ever surfaced
@@EmmaKearney0119 I’m confused now lol
And it’s from a game that’s impossible to play
Off note: there’s a larger piece attached to the Death Waltz that’s also for all intents and purposes impossible to play.
What astonishes me the most is that even during that final Last Brutal Sister part around 3:20, where there's run-throughs all over, the melody is still recognizable. Meanwhile, the actual Death Waltz sounds like a cat is jumping around on the piano, getting startled by the noises it's causing.
Note: At 5:26 That's the String Quartet No. 556(b) for Strings In A Minor (Motoring Accident)
NOT PART OF DEATH WALTZ
Not part of death waltz, but still by John Stump.
wow sounds like diffrent part
vesteel That part actually sounds like a Touhou song
3:02 that cluster fuck right there
So the "real" Dealth Waltz could be called "Children bang on piano".
I'm laughing so hard at the real Death Walt's bcuz it sounds like someone's beating the piano with a dead corpse!!! 😂😂😂
yup
The sheets just gets worse...
Jsythere89 😂😂😂
Death Waltz = Random notes
yeah sit a 6 year old on a piano dada death waltz.... how could wood it be ilke on got talent there comes in 20+ pianists doing black midi in a group :D they sperete the notes so that they can play it would be hillarious :D
I also used to think about that...
If you think Death waltz is just random notes, listen to the works of Messiaen, Boulez or Penderecki then come back here.
is death waltz composed by nancarrow ?
Some parts, you can't even play it because it uses more than 10 notes at the same time.
That's not an excuse. You're so weak. Shame on you.
Kitty TFM Wow, that's actually impressive. Not to say that I don't believe you, but do you have a video or any other kind of visual or audio proof?
Kitty TFM Oh, it's okay. Perfectly fine.
Death Waltz by John Stump is a joke sheet not meant to be played. Not because it is impossible (certainly not), but because it is silly. Most of the sheet does not even make sense, like what are you supposed to do with the bicycle? And actually using living animals is where I think most people would stop thinking of trying to perform it...
Only 7 thousand people know the fact now. But 7 million people still confuse it.
Death waltz of John probably my piano skills in a nutshell
[iRO]Serval Death waltz is my probability of getting an A in my exam. It's IMPOSSIBRU
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I feel like you should have put somekind of ending on the vid. A little aftercare for the soul after having to listen to that {ó_ò}
4:03 guess I’ll just lay down on my piano
Wish I could show those sheets to some now long-dead composers.
Like, if I had a time machine this would be my actual hobby. Of course, I'd also bring an playback device to let them listen to it as well.
Saving the world? Screw that! I'd rather mess with powdered men and fancy fingerers than do any of that nonsense!
So I guess short protip; if the song has something approaching a melody, it's not Death Waltz.
Nobody knowing the backstory of the music 'death waltz'? Okay, here it goes....
An American pianist had so many dept that forced him almost to death. And one day, a real threat message arrived to him. Later, he met his friend and told him to figure the truth, not telling why he was saying such a thing(but the friend knew that he had too many depts.)in the message, there were the time and place he'll be threatened to be dead, so he quickly made this music which has 66/66 beats(devil's number, showing how desperate he was), a glasses shaped and knife shape placed notes(how the guy looks and what the guy will use to threat him), and finally, the time, 1:21, and HELP ME written surrounded by black notes.
mates: yo this is crap its just spamming idk how ur so obsessed with 3:39 bro
me: youll never understand :sob:
Then there's me who found Last Brutal Sister through Taiko no Tatsujin and didn't even know about the whole "Death Waltz" ordeal lol
4:02
so this is what it mustve sounded like in japan on august 6th, 1945.
GreenRanch
Low blow
You're an horrible person and you have a great sense of humor.
I hate/love you.
Too soon
Bruh
2 people didn't see the String Quartet coming and were thus involved in a minor (motoring accident)
“I brought a whole piano I’ll use a whole piano”
4:35 Play it live on my funeral.
Unless I would get cremated, then let me sleep.
Just looking at this, it feels like touhou doesn't get enough of the recognition it deserves because of simple misunderstandings
The real death Waltz sounds like someone was mostly banging their head on the piano keys at the beginning
Well, no matter what any of that was, it was the most entertaining thing I've heard in a while. :D
3:02 this part is IMPOSSIBLE for human to play
Teacher: the test isn't hard at all
The test:
This went from a badass theme to convulsing on a piano keyboard
1:41 😮you're a lot more fun to be on this day now
"Release the penguins"
"Black midi"
He was doing everything before his time
it seems that there are 3 nutes missed at 4:02
Now that was a conclusive answer....
Real Death Waltz 4:30
3:58--Playing all the notes on the piano quickly in order...THEN ALL AT ONCE.
Finally a video with the real death Waltz.
somebody was truly dying while composing the second song
I think the reason UN Owen remix gets confused with the Death Waltz is also because of the chord sequence at 2:45. Just listening to it for the first time made my mind go "Oh yeah, that's definitely dealing with something ominous eg death".
1:47 when I accidentaly step on my dogs tail
Thank you for your work
The death march sounded like when you are 5 and try and play, can’t, mash a ton of keys, and then find a tune for a sec, and mash some more keys
0:52 - Start
The real Death Waltz sounds like an adult transcribing the cling-clang of their toddler on a piano and calling it a song.
Death waltz basically combination of Night of night and UN Owen wa her
A combination of a song written in 2002 and a song written around 2007... was written in 1970s... WAT?!
Amen to that!
no
Tbh the real one goes from "large cat rolling around on piano keys" to "I can kinda hear a song here?" No wonder UN Owen/Flandres theme/whatever the hell you call it is more popular
БЕДНЫЕ ПАЛЬЦЫ, интересно сколько людей играли на Пианино фальс смерти😮😮😮
If this was my phone call tone, I’d never miss a call ever again
The real death waltz is my life. It's sounds crazy at times, but also somewhat put together at others. It also has just enough melody to make you believe that they know what they're doing. It also rests a lot... ba-dum-tiiissss. I'll see myself out.
Gotta admit, Owen was Her is great
They got confused with a Japanese youtuber, not Korean......
The real MVP
Im saving this video for the future
2:57 omfg!
At 4:02, the only way to play that is to just jump straight on to your piano
Why is this so hilarious to me 😭
4:02 & 4:37 ¢¥£^+$#?
The score almost looks like a perfectly normal, playable score at several moments...
Almost.
just now realized this was posted on my birthday
Trying to learn either of these songs:
Teacher: Now let's hear what you've been practicing
Me: I found a little problem... I only have 2 hands and for this piece you need about three times that.
Sometimes i play certain parts of this song when i mess up a piano piece and get frustrated.
John Stump truly stumped us with this song
Poor piano :(
So this is what happens when you cram all the parts of an orchestral piece onto one instrument
Wow, death waltz is just what I played as a 6 year old smashing keys and practically laying on my family piano😂
Me: music Teacher, what son will we composite now?
Music Teacher: I know **stomps the head with the piano**. Done.
Me: wow, what a nice song, teacher!
5:25 ngl that sounds like touhou 7 stage 3 for a bit there
So beautiful
«But I only have two hands, sir..»
3:02 *smashes keyboard*
Never 4:02 is really where you just smash your whole being into the keyboard
2:59 holy shit. Wtf
3:12 to 3:21 sounds the best to me
Thank you so much sir
The funny thing is that its not just the song there is confusion over, but also flandres personality, i.e canon vs fandom. But then zun released his manga that shows flandre in a new light adding even more confusion to her personality lol.
She doesnt get any breaks what so ever. xD
Thank you !
3:02 that is why it is called black midi
also 3:22
So I could DEFINITELY learn that last part of the first one ....
Brother the real death waltz is me trying to play piano
lol
I kind of like it
This is what sheet music for those impossible remix midis you see on RUclips looks like
How to play death waltz:
Step 1:lay on the piano
Step 2:do the worms
Memories
2:55 The music sheet is now corrupted 😂😂😂
Those notes on their own could be a touhou game
4:31
There are like 16th chords or higher chords in this song wtf.
4:02 sorry i only have 10 fingers
0:50