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Editor's Picks...
Below are our personal picks, the sites that get our highest recommendation for this genre. They are listed in alphabetical order.

Note: Our favorite popular 'sheet music' sites feature guitar and bass tabs, rather than piano. A skilled pianist can improvise from guitar tabs with practice. See our FAQ for more details on playing piano from guitar tabs.

Easy Sheet Music
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Classical, Boogie & Blues, Opera Classics, National Songs

Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
Easy Sheet Music is one of our favorite discoveries of late. First of all, every song is arranged for easy piano. Secondly, the selection is quite large. Thirdly, there's some great music here! The 'Boogie and Blues' selections are highly recommended for something a bit different, but you'll find lot's of easy to play classical works, too. At Easy Sheet Music, you can download any three tunes per day for free. Unlimited download access to all the pieces all the time is $10/year. Added 10/07/2002.


Finale Showcase
Instrumentation for: Piano, Solo Instruments, Strings, Brass, Band, More...
Categories: All

Catalog Size: Huge (1000+)
Every once in a while we stumble across an absolute gem of a free sheet music site. This is one of them. This popular Finale showcase site allows Finale software users to upload their songs, arrangements, and compositions
for shared viewing, playing and transposing. The result is this huge directory filled with mostly easy sheet music arrangements for nearly all instruments in nearly every category. Classical music includes everything from Baroque, to Renaissance, Medieval and 20th century tunes. You'll find contemporary Christian music, gospel, children's music, country and rock music, rap music, show tunes, broadway, as well as soundtracks and holiday music. Instrumentation includes not only solo instruments, but arrangements for brass band, chamber, choir, handbells, and even percussion. Browse by category or instrumentation. You'll need Finale installed (which is free for download) to view and print the scores.Updated 04/22/2003.

Free Sheet Music for Various Instruments and Choir
Instrumentation for: Varies, Many Complete Scores
Categories: Pop, Broadway, Classical
, Chamber, Jazz, Brass & Choral
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
This interesting collection of free sheet music includes a wide variety of styles. You'll find a few popular music scores, (including 'Candle in the Wind' and 'The Prayer'), as well as music from the musicals
Grease and Cabaret. Jazz fans will enjoy the selections from Scott Joplin, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie and Benny Goodwin, while classical purists will find complete works (many complete scores) from Mozart, Handel, Bach, Corelli, Morley, and much more. Very nice selection of sheet music for brass instruments. All sheet music in high quality PDF format. Updated 08/12/2002.

Radiohead for the Pianoforte
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Popular, Alternative

Catalog Size: Small (10-25)
It's always cool when something creative comes our way, and this site is definitely creative. Radiohead for the Pianoforte features hand-written sheet music scores based on music of the band Radiohead. Currently, you'll find piano scores from
OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac and others. All scores are in *.jpg format. You can also download MIDI files of the scores. Updated 05/22/2003.

Words and Music
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Popular

Catalog Size: Very Small (Less than 10)
Here you'll find one pianists own arrangements of a number of popular tunes, including music by Jewel, Five for Fighting, REM, Alanis Morisette and others.
The free SmartMusic Viewer is required to view the files, but once that's installed, you can save the sheet music, as well as listen to it played via MIDI. Added 04/29/2002.



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7 Hot
Instrumentation for: Piano & Guitar
Categories: Popular

Catalog Size: Small (10-25)
At this interesting Russian web site you'll find sheet music, scanned as posted as *gif files, for a dozen Beatles songs including Love Me Do, A Hard Day's Night, Help, Let it Be and others. Added 05/20/2003.

8notes.com
Instrumentation for: Piano, Guitar, Flute, Violin, Cello, Trumpet, More...
Categories: Primarily Classical
, Popular
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
At 8notes.com, you'll find mostly classical free sheet music for download in Sibelius format, as well as basic 'riff' lessons for a variety of instruments in other genres. The site also features a database of sheet music available on other web sites as well as MIDI files to download for most songs. Other features include a 'Tab Converter,' a sheet music forum, articles, and a directory of other sheet music sites. To access free PDF files, and browse an ad-free site, you must purchase a $15/year subscription. Updated 06/24/2003.

Blueprints of Genius Music Page
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Popular

Catalog Size: Small (10-25)
Tori Amos fans will get a kick out of Blueprints of Genius, a site dedicated to sheet music transcriptions from Tori's best material. Songs include music from Little Earthquakes, Under the Pink, Boys for Pele and a number of B-Sides. The sheet music is free and in *.gif format making it easy to print off or download. The only drawback - as these are only rough transcriptions, there are no repeats or codas. The music is presented linearly, as performed. Updated 7/16/2001. Support the artist and purchase Tori Amos sheet music here.

Final Fantasy
Instrumentation for: Piano, Guitar, Clarinet, Band, Flute, Strings, Others
Categories: Popular, Game Soundtracks

Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
This fan site is dedicated to Nobuo Uematsu, the composer and arranger of music for the Sony Playstation
Final Fantasy game series. Select the 'sheet music' option under the Download drop down list, and you'll find a large selection of sheet music scores arranged for several different instruments. Sheet music is zipped, but once downloaded and upzipped, you'll find high quality PDF files. Added 07/01/2002.

Garden of Praise: Arrangements for Piano
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Christmas, Popular

Catalog Size: Small (10-25)
Here you'll find some very easy piano arrangements for a number of popular, public domain songs. These include several Christmas tunes, such as
Silent Night, Deck the Halls, and Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, as well as kids songs such as B-I-N-G-O, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, and Happy Birthday. The sheet music is in *.gif format. Added 01/03/2003.

George Winston and 'Friends'
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Popular, New Age

Catalog Size: Medium (25-50)
This Korean site offers free sheet music downloads from pianists George Winston, David Lanz, Suzanne Ciani, Michael Jones, Yanni, and others. The files are scanned from a Korean songbook, and thus the quality (and accuracy) of the transcriptions varies. Files are zipped, in *.jpg format. A great find for Winston fans especially, as sheet music songbooks from his CDs are unavailable in the U.S. Note: You can support the artists represented at this site by purchasing songbooks by David Lanz, Suzanne Ciani, and Yanni directly from Sheet Music Plus. Updated 10/07/2002.

Guitar Masters Jazz Charts
Instrumentation for: Guitar (Lead Sheets), Piano (Melody & Chords)
Categories: Popular, Jazz

Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
Guitar Masters instructional guitar pages include *.gif downloads for a large selection of popular songs, classics, and 'golden oldies' such as
Aint Misbehavin, April in Paris, House of the Rising Sun, Misty, September in the Rain, Unforgettable, Yesterday and many, many others. These lead sheets contain melody and chords, which can be adapted for guitarists or used as 'fake sheets' for pianists. Added 05/06/2002.

Moon Songs: Smashing Pumpkins Piano Music
Instrumentation for: Piano
Categories: Rock

Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
Those of you looking for piano music with a bit of an 'edge' might enjoy Moon Songs, a collection of free piano sheet music based on songs by the band Smashing Pumpkins. Most of the free sheet music provided here is transcribed by fans of the band. The quality of the sheet music varies (we found some that were even hand-written!) but if you're a fan, who cares? Plenty to choose from, mostly available in *.gif or *.jpg format. Updated 12/03/2001 Support the artists you love and purchase Smashing Pumpkins sheet music here!

The Music Library of Denis Bouriakov
Instrumentation for: Piano, Orchestral, Flute, Sax, Violin, Recorder & More
Categories: Classical
, Pop
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
Bouriakov's classical sheet music library includes a large seleciton of songs from Bach, Brahams, Skriabin and others. You'll also find, strangely enough, a dozen or so songs by the rock band Queen. Sheet music is in both PDF and TIF format, and the quality varies throughout. Added 06/24/2003.

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