8notes.com
Review of this store
A comprehensive store with tonnes of sheet music information, reasonable prices and lots of
free sheet music. The site is easy to navigate and well thought out.
Review score for 8notes.com - 88/100
What is 8notes?
8notes.com is run and owned by Red Balloon Technology Ltd, a music and technology
company based in St Albans, England. 8notes.com was launched in early 2001 and has gone on to become one of the most popular destinations for
musicians on the internet, visited by hundreds of thousands of people every month. 8notes.com is first
and foremost about sheet music. We have hundreds of our pieces for all major instruments, in all kinds of styles. But there's a lot more
besides.
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Free Sheet Music to Download.
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Free Sheet Music Database.
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Sheet Music for Subscribers
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Popular Music Riffs
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Tools and Resources
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Information
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Forums
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Explore!
Free Sheet Music to Download
Whether you play piano, guitar, flute, viola or a whole range of other
instruments we have free sheet music for you to download. Most pieces are available in gif/midi format meaning you can listen to the music as
you browse the site.
You can also follow along to most scores using the innovative Sibelius Scorch
plugin. PDF print out is reserved for subcribers, but you can print out a free lower quality
version from the Gif Images. Simply click the Print button at the top of each page of the score.
Free Sheet Music Database
As well as our own files (numbering almost 2000 at time of writing) we also
maintain a database of high quality sheet music available on other sites on the internet. This makes
8notes.com the most convenient location to search for free sheet music on the internet - simply enter keywords into the search box at the top
of the page and we will automatically return results from both our own site and from many others besides.
Sheet Music for Subscribers
For only $20 per year, subscribers to 8notes.com can access our ever-increasing
library of subscription-only pieces. These pieces are marked with the 'subscribe' button as you browse the site before joining. The
subscription service also includes access to high quality printable PDF versions of almost all our files. Other benefits include:
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Unlimited download of hundreds of pieces
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Longer & more advanced works
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Unlimited MIDI-converter usage
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Tab-converter account
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An advert-free site
Popular Music Riffs
We have a large collection of freely accessible popular riff lessons. In these we
take apart the musical components of some of the most popular bands and songs around. Whether you want
to know the piano chords Coldplay uses, the drum beat for a James Brown track or the funky guitar rhythm in Ben Fold's Rockin the Suburbs,
there's something for you in our pop section.
Tools and Resources
8notes.com has some truly amazing free resources for musicians:
An online guitar tuner - tune your guitar anywhere, anytime guitar
chord charts and piano chord charts complete with audio files of each chord. Convert Midi Files to
Sheet Music, Tabs to Sheet Music, Tabs to Midi Files and a whole bunch of other stuff, all in our
extras section.
Useful Info
We also have a wealth of free musical information :
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Artist biographies
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Musical glossary
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Collection of Music theory lessons
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Hand-edited Directory of around 2000 music websites
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Useful links to help you buy music gear and hard copies of sheet music
Sheet Music Forums
Our forums are very popular with active musicians. We have separate forums for
each instrument and style of music. Chat with other members about instrumental technique, or your favourite pieces. To post to the forum you need to register to create your free 8notes account. Your account includes details of posts
you've made and recent pieces you have visited on the site.
Explore
We hope you enjoy your visit to 8notes.com and will come back regularly. We add
new pieces, riffs and resources all the time.
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