where do you get you music notes and pieces from? I dont know where to get them...could you recommend any websites? do you use any software? thanks
I use a program called Guitar Pro, which (as the name explains) is mainly a program for guitar players. But if a song has a keyboard/Piano, it's usually there as well. Then I just go to www.ultimate-guitar.com and download some tabs. The good sides about that program is that it shows me the keyboard, where I can see which notes are being played, so I can learn a song without being able to read the sheets. The downsides are, that you probably won't learn to read sheets, as the other way is much easier , and you will probably not be able to find songs that does not contain a guitar, like Beethoven or similar.
orite thats ok...i have guitar pro..but i was more interested in learning sheet aswell.. but i guess i can learn theory but when it comes to learning songs i can just use guitar pro.. im only starting so i dont want to get bad habits thanks
It depends what level you want - there are plenty of good sites for classical piano, but I doubt that's what you want. Generally I search for midi files of pieces and extract into Sibelius to view the score, which is essentially what Guitar Pro does, although it's very hit and miss on quality, assuming a file exists.
i think you could use some of these http://pianomusicsheet.blogspot.com/ http://www.my-piano.blogspot.com/ http://www.e-chords.com
My personal favorite is PianoFiles: http://www.pianofiles.com/ Members publish a list of scanned sheets and songbooks available for trade. I built a large collection of piano songbooks in just a few weeks. My own list is there: http://www.pianofiles.com/user/715161 Also, you'll find several songbooks and sheets on 4shared: http://www.4shared.com/network/search.jsp Just type "piano" and file type "pdf": you'll get 3 000 hits...
I like Piano Sheet Music | Musicnotes.com and they have a great newsletter which gives you a free downloadable song each month.
I've just discovered IMSLP which has a fantastic collection of classical sheet music for which the copyright has expired. WIMA also has some good stuff, but the quality is often variable.
