Help me find music sheets

Aerozord · 09-23-2010, 06:26 PM

ok so I am learning guitar, and my instructor told me to look online for music sheets to practice. Which I find likely, this is the internet age, sure somewhere there are compilations of how to play many song. I know there are ones for lyrics, so anyone know of a good place?

A Zarkin' Frood · 09-24-2010, 11:32 AM

Get yourself TuxGuitar or, if you wanna shell out monies, Guitar Pro. Both of those are programs meant for the editing and viewing of guitar tablatures. The former can also display them as scores (and is the program I use as a sequencer for my music, by the way). Of course you can also print them, or export them into pdf-files.
I know you can even adjust the speed and activate a metronome in TuxGuitar for play-along practice.

Then find a site that offers guitar tabs. You might want to search Google for Guitar Pro tabs (both aforementioned programs can read them and there are quite a lot of them. Some even for music that wasn't written for guitars, like video game themes and stuff), because I'm not sure which sites are completely legal and offer public domain music only.

Nique · 09-24-2010, 05:39 PM

There are so many. Of questionable legality.

***Fenris*** · 09-24-2010, 05:40 PM

Are you talking tablature or sheet music? Because they are very different things.

Guitar tab is much easier to read and much more common on the internet.

**McTahr** · 09-24-2010, 05:46 PM

Yeah. If your guitar teacher wants you to learn how to read music, do not get guitar tabs. They're like getting crib notes for a test. Sure, you get the job done, but it's kind of missing the point.

I've seen a few sites for different music sheets based around specific interests or specific instruments, but it's really a crapshoot, and some even try to charge you. Google-fu is your friend here.

Aerozord · 09-24-2010, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Fenris

Are you talking tablature or sheet music? Because they are very different things.

Guitar tab is much easier to read and much more common on the internet.

I have no idea, I am very bad at the terminology of music over all. I can read the things but I have no freakin clue what the stuff is called. I even forget the name of the cords.

Though I can describe it. The sheets that show you what notes to play and how long to hold them. In the case of guitar showing you what fret on which string as well.

That help?

Meister · 09-25-2010, 03:09 AM

Yeah, that sounds like tabulature. Googling "guitar tabs" or something will give you a lot of sites. Here's just a random one I grabbed - take a look if that's what you're after.

For actual sheet music you could try the library, it's just as free.

A Zarkin' Frood · 09-25-2010, 04:07 AM

The upper is sheet music, the lower is a guitar tablature.
Screencapped from TuxGuitar. It being able to display both is the main reason I recommend it over Guitar Pro (which might be able to do that too by now). That and TuxGuitar costing absolutely nothing.

Another plus, for me atleast, is that the thing displays chord diagrams AND the notes, unlike that one beginner's book I once had, the one which the first few pages of are my entire musical education.
Not like I even play guitar, though.

You'll find plenty of *.gp tabs to print out and practice with on the internet. Some, perhaps, are even supposed to serve as training.

Aerozord · 09-25-2010, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by InsaneGenius

The upper is sheet music, the lower is a guitar tablature.
Screencapped from TuxGuitar. It being able to display both is the main reason I recommend it over Guitar Pro (which might be able to do that too by now). That and TuxGuitar costing absolutely nothing.

oh then yea, I need both, I thought them combined was called one thing, hence the confusion. Though TuxGuitar just seems to be the player, what about the actual sheet music and tablature for a song?

09-23-2010, 06:26 PM	#1
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09-24-2010, 11:32 AM	#2
A Zarkin' Frood formerly known as Prince. Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Right here, with you >:) Posts: 2,395	Get yourself TuxGuitar or, if you wanna shell out monies, Guitar Pro. Both of those are programs meant for the editing and viewing of guitar tablatures. The former can also display them as scores (and is the program I use as a sequencer for my music, by the way). Of course you can also print them, or export them into pdf-files. I know you can even adjust the speed and activate a metronome in TuxGuitar for play-along practice. Then find a site that offers guitar tabs. You might want to search Google for Guitar Pro tabs (both aforementioned programs can read them and there are quite a lot of them. Some even for music that wasn't written for guitars, like video game themes and stuff), because I'm not sure which sites are completely legal and offer public domain music only. __________________ >:( C-: Last edited by A Zarkin' Frood; 09-24-2010 at 11:36 AM.

09-24-2010, 05:40 PM	#4
*Fenris* Administrator Join Date: May 2005 Location: East Coast Posts: 6,806	Are you talking tablature or sheet music? Because they are very different things. Guitar tab is much easier to read and much more common on the internet. __________________ "FENRIS IS AN ASSHOLE" - shiney

09-24-2010, 05:46 PM	#5
McTahr For the right price... Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,268	Yeah. If your guitar teacher wants you to learn how to read music, do not get guitar tabs. They're like getting crib notes for a test. Sure, you get the job done, but it's kind of missing the point. I've seen a few sites for different music sheets based around specific interests or specific instruments, but it's really a crapshoot, and some even try to charge you. Google-fu is your friend here. __________________ Gone.

09-25-2010, 04:07 AM	#8
A Zarkin' Frood formerly known as Prince. Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Right here, with you >:) Posts: 2,395	The upper is sheet music, the lower is a guitar tablature. Screencapped from TuxGuitar. It being able to display both is the main reason I recommend it over Guitar Pro (which might be able to do that too by now). That and TuxGuitar costing absolutely nothing. Another plus, for me atleast, is that the thing displays chord diagrams AND the notes, unlike that one beginner's book I once had, the one which the first few pages of are my entire musical education. Not like I even play guitar, though. You'll find plenty of .gp tabs to print out and practice with on the internet. Some, perhaps, are even supposed to serve as training. __________________ >:(* C-: Last edited by A Zarkin' Frood; 09-25-2010 at 04:19 AM.

09-25-2010, 03:09 AM	#7
Meister Pure joy Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Germany Posts: 10,689	Yeah, that sounds like tabulature. Googling "guitar tabs" or something will give you a lot of sites. Here's just a random one I grabbed - take a look if that's what you're after. For actual sheet music you could try the library, it's just as free.