Sheet music website?

[jontah]

Hi!

Looking for a great sheet music website with loads of new music within the pop genre (the latest tracks) AND the most important thing:

BIG sheetmusic, I can't see when it's small like on sheetmusicdirect.com, it's sooo tiny.

Or do you know any website where I can open up the sheet music inside of sibelius or any other great program to view this in?

I'd highly appreciate any suggestions.

And I really don't want to print stuff. Takes too much time and effort since my printer is weird. I just wanna look at it straight on out of the box - on the screen.

Suggestions of sites? Thanks!

EDIT:

I DONT want it to be this small:

http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mt ... =MN0112060

[JumpingJackFlash]

Do a search for MIDI files (.mid)

Most notation software (including Sibelius) will be able to import them. Many of them won't look great, but you might get some idea.

[jontah]

Do a search for MIDI files (.mid)

Most notation software (including Sibelius) will be able to import them. Many of them won't look great, but you might get some idea.

Hey.

Yeah well I want to completely just play a song from a music sheet.

I've actually tried to download a few MIDI files but they play it so strangely - not even close to what the original is played. This is why I started learning notes in the first place - because everyone plays it differently and in their own way. For me, it's better to learn by just sticking to the original and how it's played.

So, there must be ANY site which has a bigger FONT or something? because all of the sheetmusic sites are so GOD DAMN small!!!

Why does it have to be soooo small? I can't barely see what the notes are! Jesus.

So please. Anyone?

[stringtapper]

Because the page you linked to is a sample. They're expecting you to buy the score in order to see the full resolution version of it.

[tapper mike]

Many of the larger midi archives have vanished do to fear of financial reprisal from publishers.

Midi online publishing for the most part is "if someone wants to post a midi file they will and if someone wants to publish/have it to publish they do. The demands/requests of a visitor have no impact on that. Midi transcriptions simply don't just happen it takes someone with serious transcribing skills and time to make them a reality.

As a former teacher I would often be paid to teach and transcribe music for students. Emphasis on the word paid. In the early days of the internet many a transcriber would post midi files and in return often receive at least a thank you from those who downloaded the file. Those days are long gone and as such many mid contributors have moved on to other things which at least they get some recognition for.

Those that I knew who did a lot of transcription in the past for free now do it for pay. Not that they make a lot of money for it but it affords them liability protection as the publisher gets their cut and the transcriber has some type of compensation for their hard work.
http://www.mysongbook.com/who-we-are

MySongbook used to be free way way back then till they got served. Arobas (makers of guitar pro) had to shut it down. They reopened it only after finding a way to pay the original publishers for the material.

In the wake of the publishers scare many sites emerged that skated around publishing/copyright issues such as http://wikifonia.org.
They do this by supplying melody and chord symbols and a MusicXML sheet as well as pdf. It's catch as catch can and it's up to the content providers to decide what content to provide.

For a musician such as myself who grew up on fakebooks before the midi era wikifonia is a goldmine. It allows me to focus more on learning the song and using my brain then simply listening along. A melody and a printed chord progression is enough to get me in the door, my experience and desire will take me the rest of the way.

[jontah]

Because the page you linked to is a sample. They're expecting you to buy the score in order to see the full resolution version of it.

I bought it and it's still the same size..

[jontah]

Many of the larger midi archives have vanished do to fear of financial reprisal from publishers.

Midi online publishing for the most part is "if someone wants to post a midi file they will and if someone wants to publish/have it to publish they do. The demands/requests of a visitor have no impact on that. Midi transcriptions simply don't just happen it takes someone with serious transcribing skills and time to make them a reality.

As a former teacher I would often be paid to teach and transcribe music for students. Emphasis on the word paid. In the early days of the internet many a transcriber would post midi files and in return often receive at least a thank you from those who downloaded the file. Those days are long gone and as such many mid contributors have moved on to other things which at least they get some recognition for.

Those that I knew who did a lot of transcription in the past for free now do it for pay. Not that they make a lot of money for it but it affords them liability protection as the publisher gets their cut and the transcriber has some type of compensation for their hard work.
http://www.mysongbook.com/who-we-are

MySongbook used to be free way way back then till they got served. Arobas (makers of guitar pro) had to shut it down. They reopened it only after finding a way to pay the original publishers for the material.

In the wake of the publishers scare many sites emerged that skated around publishing/copyright issues such as http://wikifonia.org.
They do this by supplying melody and chord symbols and a MusicXML sheet as well as pdf. It's catch as catch can and it's up to the content providers to decide what content to provide.

For a musician such as myself who grew up on fakebooks before the midi era wikifonia is a goldmine. It allows me to focus more on learning the song and using my brain then simply listening along. A melody and a printed chord progression is enough to get me in the door, my experience and desire will take me the rest of the way.

Cheers man Wikifonia seems nice, BUT; is it updated alot and all the time with new music within the pop genre? I'm looking for a site that is providing me with songs that I normally listen to and can learn me how to play them.

With new music I mean music that is fresh and is hitting the billboard lists etc right now. That's what I'm looking for.

[stringtapper]

Because the page you linked to is a sample. They're expecting you to buy the score in order to see the full resolution version of it.

I bought it and it's still the same size..

What kind of file did they give you? Normally it's a PDF and those can be zoomed. If they are PDFs made with Finale or Sibelius then they should be vector graphics which lose no resolution when zoomed in as far as possible.

[jontah]

Because the page you linked to is a sample. They're expecting you to buy the score in order to see the full resolution version of it.

I bought it and it's still the same size..

What kind of file did they give you? Normally it's a PDF and those can be zoomed. If they are PDFs made with Finale or Sibelius then they should be vector graphics which lose no resolution when zoomed in as far as possible.

They use Sibelius SCORCH which is an online viewier program. Which really sucks because u can't zoom at all!

I found out that sibelius + midi files works pretty good, I'll partly use that I guess. But to do so I need a few answers on these questions:

How do I turn off the sound in sibelius and so it doesn't react to what keys I'm playing on the keyboard? because now it's some default piano synth. And when I'm pressing down one key it registers that key and places it on the score/sheet inside of Sibelius. I simply just want it to act like a SCORE viewer, and I want to be able to play with the piano which I've loaded into cubase 7 in the background, and not in Sibelius. (the reason why I run it in Cubase 7 is because the sustain pedal isn't working in any other program. In cubase 7 I've set up a transformer setting which enables the sustain pedal and changes its value).

Any answers are highly appreciated.

[tapper mike]

Re turning off the sounds from your keys.

Set it up so that there is no midi in (deselect your midi input device)

I can't say for mac's with pc's it is possible to run two music apps at the same time. My preferred method is to run biab for the midi/biab file and then having a separate host to run my plugins thru.

Re Wikifonia. It's all user contribution based so if someone there likes the song enough to transcribe it they will Same with Chordie. However it's amateur hour for both. They are "foot in the door" stuff where your memory and ear are supposed to do the rest. Which oddly isn't a bad thing.

Honestly the best transcriptions note for note accuracy through the years has been http://gprotab.net/

Granted like "MySongbook" it is based on guitar pro rather then straight foreward midi. However there are third party apps like Tux http://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxguitar/
That can open gpro files and export to standard midi.

Tux can display standard notation but it's not scaleable as is guitar pro or other notation software.

TuxGuitar is free and there are other products that are both pay and free that can handle gpro content though I've always preferred guitar pro.


I realize that having to go thru the conversion process is annoying. But to be honest gpro transcribers are a very dedicated lot. And if you want accuracy in transcription for all the parts you'll usually find it with Guitar Pro.

[jontah]

Re turning off the sounds from your keys.

Set it up so that there is no midi in (deselect your midi input device)

I can't say for mac's with pc's it is possible to run two music apps at the same time. My preferred method is to run biab for the midi/biab file and then having a separate host to run my plugins thru.

Re Wikifonia. It's all user contribution based so if someone there likes the song enough to transcribe it they will Same with Chordie. However it's amateur hour for both. They are "foot in the door" stuff where your memory and ear are supposed to do the rest. Which oddly isn't a bad thing.

Honestly the best transcriptions note for note accuracy through the years has been http://gprotab.net/

Granted like "MySongbook" it is based on guitar pro rather then straight foreward midi. However there are third party apps like Tux http://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxguitar/
That can open gpro files and export to standard midi.

Tux can display standard notation but it's not scaleable as is guitar pro or other notation software.

TuxGuitar is free and there are other products that are both pay and free that can handle gpro content though I've always preferred guitar pro.


I realize that having to go thru the conversion process is annoying. But to be honest gpro transcribers are a very dedicated lot. And if you want accuracy in transcription for all the parts you'll usually find it with Guitar Pro.

Thanks alot, but I'm looking for piano pieces - are there any similar sites for only piano? this is pointed towards guitar tabs and such ..

[jontah]

Oh by the way, when viewing it inside of Sibelius - why isn't it showing me any bass-clef? only the G-clef?

http://www10.zippyshare.com/v/41829496/file.html

[jontah]

Also - all sites I've bought sheetmusic on (I've tried 10 of them so far and it's been a waste of money on every single one of them) IS providing you with a printable music sheet, BUT it's only viewable online unless you print it.

I DONT want to print it! I just want to look at it on my computer. VIA PDF or so.

How hard should that be jesus

[jancivil]

http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://kunstderfuge.com/

[JumpingJackFlash]

Oh by the way, when viewing it inside of Sibelius - why isn't it showing me any bass-clef? only the G-clef?

These things happen when importing MIDI files. Just change it yourself - takes about 5 seconds

Also - all sites I've bought sheetmusic on (I've tried 10 of them so far and it's been a waste of money on every single one of them) IS providing you with a printable music sheet, BUT it's only viewable online unless you print it.

I DONT want to print it! I just want to look at it on my computer. VIA PDF or so.

How hard should that be jesus

The thing is, if they provided it in a downloadable medium such as a pdf file, you could just upload it to another site or copy it and email it to loads more people who would effectively be getting it for free, meaning violating copyright and a loss in sales.

That's why legit businesses will never do it. When you buy it, you're buying the rights to one copy of the music for yourself.