Free Sheet Music Guide: Popular Music
Pop Music, Rock Music, Country, Broadway, Film, Television,
Jazz & More!
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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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