#1962615 - 06/25/08 09:39 AM
Sheet music site
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fishacura
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Someone pointed me to http://ultimate-guitar.com as a site that has user interpretations of popular music. The problem is it's a guitar site and while it has a lot of chord info, it's not the actual sheet music. Anyone know of similar sites with keyboard sheet music interpretations that users post? Don't want to spend a fortune on the real stuff if I don't have to.
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#1962681 - 06/25/08 11:31 AM
Re: Sheet music site
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herojoe
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I've never found a website that has free contemporary sheet music, but if you're willing to shell out a few bucks, musicnotes. com is a good site.
There's a site for keyboard tabs called tabnabber.com. You can convert the tabs into sheet music. A lot of the tabs aren't very well done, but they're free.
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#1962916 - 06/25/08 09:54 PM
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NoahZark
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I like musicnotes.com as well, especially because they'll allow you to display and print the first page for free. If you have any kind of ear (and if it's the right type of song), the first page is usually enough to allow you to work your way through the rest of the song pretty easily. (Saved me a ton of time, for example, when I was trying to learn Locomotive Breath by Jethro Tull.) If that doesn't work for you, herojoe is right: You can spend a few bucks and have the whole song.
Another thing that I've done is download free MIDI files of songs and then used software (Cakewalk Sonar, in my case) to display the MIDI file in "staff view." If you have a music notation program (like Sibelius or Finale), you could even use that to print the MIDI file, I suppose (although I don't have either of those programs). The quality of free MIDI files is highly variable, but it's worth trying if you already have a DAW program.
Good luck.
Noah
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#1962923 - 06/25/08 10:21 PM
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.....Another thing that I've done is download free MIDI files of songs and then used software (Cakewalk Sonar, in my case) to display the MIDI file in "staff view." If you have a music notation program (like Sibelius or Finale), you could even use that to print the MIDI file, I suppose (although I don't have either of those programs). The quality of free MIDI files is highly variable, but it's worth trying if you already have a DAW program.....
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If you have the time to sift through several MIDI files, you can often find a good one....or at least representative sections from a couple of different files. There is also a lot of redundancy when searching for MIDI files (i.e., the exact same file under a different name on several websites).
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#1962972 - 06/26/08 04:33 AM
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DanS
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Another thing that I've done is download free MIDI files of songs and then used software (Cakewalk Sonar, in my case) to display the MIDI file in "staff view." If you have a music notation program (like Sibelius or Finale), you could even use that to print the MIDI file, I suppose (although I don't have either of those programs). The quality of free MIDI files is highly variable, but it's worth trying if you already have a DAW program.
Good luck.
Noah
Quantizing the midi file before printing out the score usually helps as well.
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