Where To Get Free Sheet Music

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Experienced guitar players will know you can get guitar tabs from a number of tab archives and most will also have songs written in standard musical notation but this mostly applies to popular music genres. If you want some free sheet music for classical, folk, jazz or some exotic style of music, you will need to trawl the archives of free sheet music. Here are some of the best places to get free sheet music:

IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library is involved in making a virtual library of all public domain music scores plus compositions from composers who don’t mind making their work available for free.

The Mutopia Project has over 1600 classical compositions from composers like Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Mozart including works for piano, violin, guitar, cello and organ. Mutopia also includes contemporary music from composers offering their works for free.

freesheetmusic.net has a comparatively small collection of free sheet music but has a great library of articles with titles like: Guitarists – Use your neck!, Ten Chords for a Beginner Guitarist, Guitar Effect Pedals – Compression, Guitar Effect Pedals – Distortion, Guitar Effect Pedals – Chorus, Movie — The Mixolydian Scale for the Guitar and Movie — The Locrian Scale for the Guitar. You can also download pdf files of blank sheet music and tab.

freescores.com has nearly fifteen thousand free music scores searchable by instrument, composer or genre. Some music also has midi or mp3 files.

Here is a video tutorial on making your own sheet music from midis using Noteworthy Composer software. If you don’t read sheet music you can use TablEdit which is a free trial download. The only restriction on the trial version is if you make your own tabs you can’t save them so when you convert midis to tab, you will need to print them out as soon as you make them.

More interesting articles and music at find-freesheetmusic.blogspot.com and the Free Sheet Music guide which also features free guitar tabs.

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