Musicnotes.com Review-Digital Sheet Music With Free Samples

Musicnotes.com is THE most popular online sheet music dealer in the country. You can have access to over 70,000 pieces of digital music in practically every genre available. You can choose specific songs to download the sheets for or if you prefer the old fashioned "real" sheet music books, then Musicnotes has plenty of those for sale.

Some Interesting Tidbits About Musicnotes:
-Selection of digital sheet music for almost 80,000 songs
-Over 260,000 hard copies of sheet music books for sale
-Over 1 million customers
-Featured in Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today and other publications
-Rated one of the "Top 50 Web Sites for 2006" by Internet Retailer Magazine.

As you already know, the main focus of Musicnotes is digital sheet music. This always brings up the question, "How hard is it to download?"

I can honestly say that it is quite easy. When I first stumbled onto the website a few years ago I ended up downloading the free musicnotes player before actually knowing what I was doing or ordering any music.

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There are three main formats to choose from when downloading music on this site (and yes, they are FREE to use).
1. Musicnotes
2. Scorch
3. Guitar Guru

Personally I like the Musicnotes player best. You can adjust the tempo and highlight one section of the sheet music to repeat over and over. This format is printable too.

I like Scorch format too, but don't seem to use it as much. You can adjust the tempo and other settings and you also have the ability to transpose.

I have not personally used the Guitar Guru format for a few years now, but if you play guitar then it works well too. You can see where the notes on the fingerboard are located for each note, so this is especially helpful for newer guitarists.

Whatever format you use, you will be happy. Once you purchase a song you will instantly be able to download it and use it on the available format software. If you are interested in buying sheet music of any kind, then I highly recommend this site.

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As stated above, there is a LARGE selection of sheet music--either in digital or paper form. Navigation on the Musicnotes website is incredibly easy and helpful.

Some of the ways to browse through sheet music:
-You can look through songs based on instruments.
-Why look for piano arrangements when you play violin?

-You can search through music genres.
-Everything from Elvis to Beethoven

-You can sort sheet music by type.
-Search by scorch format, musicnotes format, "easy notes" format, printed material, and more.

-If you are looking for a particular song to download, then just type it in the search bar and you will view all the results (next you decide which format to choose from).

You can find sheet music for almost any song you want, and try the sample for free. Some of the most popular songs available right now are:

-"Love Song" by Sara Bareilles
-"Falling Slowly" by Glen Hansard
-"This Is Me" by Demi Lovato
-"The Prayer" by Celine Dion
-"Hallelujah" by Rufus Wainwright

In case you are wondering what the Musicnotes player looks like, here is a little screenshot of one of my favorite songs. Again, you can set the play speed and adjust all kinds of things to make learning easier, and you can have fun too. I know the picture may be a little small, so sorry. But you can go to Musicnotes and check it out for yourself if you are interested!

Again, I truly recommend Musicnotes for all your sheet music needs. Here are a few fun but random tidbits I thought I'd share.

1. You can preview any song for free. This usually means that you can play the first page of a song on the respective format player (although you can't download it). I often like to use this opportunity to learn the first page of a song for free and if I enjoy it (and am actually able to learn it) then I will buy the full song. Use this to your advantage.

2. Learning songs on the Musicnotes player is extremely helpful to me. I am actually slow at reading music, so this player helps me out. I like to select one small portion of the song at a time (only one or two measures) and slow the tempo all the way down. I then practice only that one part and speed it up as I feel more comfortable playing that part. This way I can learn a song slowly without getting overwhelmed. Enjoy the options Musicnotes offers and have fun!