I was thinking I could find free sheet music for a particular tune online; however, it seems even though the Google description implies "free," there seems to be a charge for each one. I'll pay if necessary and do understand there's no free lunch. So, can you recommend a free or reasonably priced site?
I keep adding sites that have free music, tabs, or ABC's to my bookmarks, so I have a long list (and getting longer). But here are a few I refer to a lot: http://www.mandolessons.com/lessons/all-lessons/ http://www.mandozine.com/music/tabledit_search.php https://thesession.org/tunes http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/ma...lin-tab-A.html http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/ir...dolin-tab.html http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/cgi/abc/findtune If you are not familiar with ABC notation, you might want to Google that and then download a free ABC editor (I use EasyABC). This would allow taking an ABC file and getting it into musical notation. Tabledit will also load an ABC file and convert to tabs and notation. ABC notation is pretty common.
It's much easier to find free music for traditional tunes. Music that's under copyright protection tends to be behind paywalls. Lots of tunes are available for free, but some music or some particular arrangements might be hard to come by without paying.
mandozine.com has tabledit files. Also imslp for classical stuff.
http://www.free-scores.com/free-shee...0&CATEGORIE=50 has a bit of mandolin in mostly pdf format, both free and paid sheetmusic here so watch where you go. Musescore has a huge library as well, its all uploaded from users and honestly many are incomplete, works in progress or plain bad, but theres plenty of nice surprizes in there as well, the free version isnt bad and works on mobile devices, just cant edit on the mobile app. I used the pc version quite a bit learning to violin. Overall though I think the best sites have been listed previously, they are where i generally end up
I guess I'm an idiot. I can't find Waltz Across Texas at any of these free sites. I have the music (standard notation); however, the chords aren't indicated. I'll just not worry about it and move on to something else. Thanks for your input, which I can reference in the future.
Sherry, what key is the sheet written in? Here are the chords for Waltz Across Texas (in this case, the key of G). If your sheet is i another key, just transpose the chords, and write them into your sheet. http://www.classic-country-song-lyri...icschords.html
Thanks, Mark. I believe my sheet is in A. So D7 becomes E7?
Yes
Everything moves up a whole step G -> A
OMG, Mark! I decided to print Waltz Across Texas from the website you sent (classic country) so I could later transpose at my leisure. Then I saw at the bottom where if you copy and paste that piece into the next screen, the site will do the transposition for you! I tried that and it worked. Too cool!
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Depending on what you're looking for, if it's in the public domain, there's an excellent chance you can find it on IMSLP. You can search by composer, genre, instrumentation, historical era, and on and on and on. Best thing since sliced bread.
I've created a Word document with these replies and also from a thread I posted in the Forum. If you'd like a copy, email me at sherry.cpa@sherrycpa.com.
