belfast_harper
360 posts
Nov 30, 2013
3:29 AM
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Is there a source on line where I can get free sheet music?
I am looking for songs by The Beatles, Cab Calloway, Peggy Lee and Johnny Cash.
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BC
9 posts
Nov 30, 2013
8:12 AM
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www.harptabs.com may be a first good start. It contains free user submitted tabbed out music. However no actual notes are there, just tablature, so you have to be familiar with the tune. Certainly not the end all, but a a good place to start and then you can modify as you see fit. I sometimes use it as a rough foundation to work from if I can't quite get a song completely by ear. Take note you may need to convert some of the tabs into 2nd position to make it sound right. Of course being free, you get what you pay for.
BC
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ricanefan
132 posts
Nov 30, 2013
8:38 AM
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If you can wait a day or two, I can locate some links for you online. For about a year and a half, I converted sheet music to tabs for JP Allen, andfound almost everything on line for free.
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belfast_harper
361 posts
Nov 30, 2013
10:05 AM
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BC, I have got some useful stuff from harp tabs in the past, but I think sheet music will be more useful to me when I am working on songs that are out side of the normal blues standards that I would be more comfortable playing.
ricanefan, I would appreciate any useful links to get me started.
It seems easy enough to find the first page of a score for free, just not the full song.
I like this website that has an option to play a midi file along with the sheet music.
http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtdFPE.asp?ppn=MN0053724
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Komuso
231 posts
Nov 30, 2013
5:25 PM
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http://www.8notes.com/
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Aussiesucker
1351 posts
Nov 30, 2013
9:14 PM
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Getting the complete score for free is not always easy. I don't use tabs at all preferring to learn by ear. I find there are plenty of resources on the internet that provide free guitar chords and lyrics to almost anything. I use the chords to build my own backing tracks in Band in a Box. Some good resources I have found are:-
http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/
http://www.classic-country-song-lyrics.com/
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/
http://www.8notes.com/
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Martin
553 posts
Dec 02, 2013
10:01 AM
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Really can´t figure out why some posts never show up? I wrote down this link yesterday but no go. Anyway, this is quite a good one:
http://cjam.lassecollin.se/index.html
Wikifonia appears to be permanently down; I suspect it was too much of a provocation in legal rights terms.
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belfast_harper
362 posts
Dec 02, 2013
10:51 AM
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Thanks for the links, I will check them out during the week when I have a bit of free time.
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