A scale wouldn't really work though, because then we have to establish the standard for something being difficult. And what if something is beyond 5? Most of Bespinben's stuff would probably fall into that XD
The tags idea is completely objective in that it's a list of technical difficulties. If say, the main difficult of a piece is chromatic octaves, then it would say something like "Rapid Chromatic Octaves". But, if you're like me and have a hand perfectly suited to such a task (shame it doesn't come up more really), then it wouldn't be an issue. But, if you can't play differing hand rhythms to save your life (Pyrite Town from Pokemon Colosseum comes to mind), then you'd know that it's harder, instead of just a scale.
A combination of the two would be interesting, but I see the tags being a lot more informative.
The issue with the tags, though, is that then we have to find someone to go through all new submitted sheets and tag them for difficulties. Do we put that on the arranger? That doesn't seem to make sense. Probably we'd have a volunteer group of people go through them (I'd be more than happy to!) or something of the sort.
The tags idea is completely objective in that it's a list of technical difficulties. If say, the main difficult of a piece is chromatic octaves, then it would say something like "Rapid Chromatic Octaves". But, if you're like me and have a hand perfectly suited to such a task (shame it doesn't come up more really), then it wouldn't be an issue. But, if you can't play differing hand rhythms to save your life (Pyrite Town from Pokemon Colosseum comes to mind), then you'd know that it's harder, instead of just a scale.
A combination of the two would be interesting, but I see the tags being a lot more informative.
The issue with the tags, though, is that then we have to find someone to go through all new submitted sheets and tag them for difficulties. Do we put that on the arranger? That doesn't seem to make sense. Probably we'd have a volunteer group of people go through them (I'd be more than happy to!) or something of the sort.