Musical Instrument Guide

Knowing how to play musical instrument is fun and enjoyable, especially when you are learning to play your favorite music songs. But, not everyone can play song just by hearing it; you will need to have a sheet music in order for you to be able to play that particular song.

And that brings out a question: are you willing to pay for the piano sheet music, guitar sheet music, saxophone sheet music or any other instrument sheet music?

If you are willing to pay, then it is quite easy as there are many online websites that are selling them through download. If you don’t want to pay, as in most people, then, it will be a bit harder as it will take a much longer time for you to find free sheet music.

Despite that, you can still find and download free piano and guitar sheet music online, though most will be classical sheet music as they mainly sit in the public domain. You may be able to find pop, jazz and some popular of contemporary piece, but, it will be very rare.

Here are a few ways that you can go about to find free piano and guitar sheet music.

Search For It

Hit the search engine like Google, Yahoo or MSN and try to search for very detailed terms for the sheet music you are looking for. Don’t simply go for the term “sheet music” as the scope is too wide and you will have a hard time searching. For example, if you are looking for Celine Dion sheet music, enter terms like
Celine Dion free sheet music
My Heart Will Go On free sheet music

Guitar Tablature

If you are skilled in improvisation, this method will be very useful regardless whether you are pianist or using other musical instruments. As guitar tablature gives you the lyrics and chords of a song and is available for almost any song, you can try to play the chords and get yourself familiar with the melody and rhythm. You will be able to get a good feel on how to play the song.

Forums

There are many musical forums available and you will meet many like minded people there. You can exchange opinions, seek advices and even get new sources for sheet music in the forum. People are generally friendly and helpful, so, check out the various forums.

Notation software

Notation software is a tool that helps to translate the Midi music files into sheet music and all you have to do is to look for the Midi files for your favorite song; and it is a lot easier to look for the Midi files than the sheet music on the web. Take note that there is paid and free version notation software, with paid version having more functionality. For the purpose of just getting the sheet music, the free version will be sufficient

The piano is a versatile musical instrument that can play simple melodies as well as complex and complicated notes. Once you have learned the basis and fundamental of how to play piano, you can start to learn to play piano songs. Similar to picking guitar songs, there are also many different types of piano songs available, and depending on the levels and stages you are in, you need to choose the right songs to go along.

For beginners, you should start with piano songs that are simple and easy to play. This will enable you to pick up fast about how to play the right piano note and piano chord and you are able to enjoy and appreciate the music. Most of the time, students will learn to play a melody with their right hand and once they are familiar with the song, they can then play the single line harmony with their left hand. The purpose of the beginner songs are for beginners that are new to piano to enjoy the fun to play piano and at the same time, instill a sense of accomplishment in them while they learn this musical instrument.

When you reach the intermediate stage of learning piano, they should move on to more challenging and complex piano songs. At this stage, the right hand should play the melody with chords added so as to increase the complexity of the song; while the left hand will play multiple notes or even duet the main melody that is played with the right hand.

When you reach the advances stages of learning the piano, you should be playing more of the complex songs which required long time of practice. These piano songs needs strong coordination between your eye and hand, use of the damper pedals, your timing your understanding of music concept. At this level, more is required from you such as expressing of emotion while playing the piano music and how to convey a message through the song. You are no longer playing simple piano notes and chords; you are literally sending emotion and messages through the use of keyboard. That’s why so many people love to listen to famous pianist playing piano music, there is lot of emotion and expression in the music that touched some part of people.

When picking or choosing piano song to play, it is important that you understand your progress and skill levels, never attempt something that you are not capable of as it will only help to discourage you from learning piano.

There is a lot of fun when you know how to play piano, especially playing your favorite song. Enjoy.