Free Digital Sheet Music

• Funky (hard funk) - alto sax, bass
• Olé Guapa (tango) - alto sax, bass guitar
• Rose of Tralee (Irish folk song) - easy piano
• Rose of Tralee - lyrics
• Danny Boy (Irish folk song) - easy piano
• Danny Boy - lyrics
• Spinning Wheel (Irish folk song) - easy piano

Welcome to my new web site
Those of you that are looking for the sheet music arrangements, you can find these here.

The site will be completely redesigned to not only feature my downloadable sheet music, but it will also carry news from a variety of useful sources about composing and arranging.

Please leave a comment if you have a suggestion for sites that have feeds that could be included.

Piano - Classical

Chart debut year: 1961

There are a number of new songs that are set to be released for the artist Gucci Mane who represents Atlanta, Georgia with his rhymes. One song called "She Got A Friend," has gotten him a lot of attention in 2009 due to the fact that Juelz Santana and Big Boi made an appearance.

At www.SheetMusicEditor.com I've found an interesting sheet music editor for editing sheet music online. Easily add a title.. Compose, Add an official © copyright statement and print, Great for fine-tuning hand-written music notes, Blank printable music sheets suited for a wide variety of instruments and uses. Check it out!

Four years ago, I had a job editing laddish lifestyle magazines funded by the National Health Service. It was a great job, great people, and not very time-consuming. So, at work and at home I started writing Music Thing. To my surprise and delight, people started reading it. It was fun and all-consuming. Every day you - the readers - sent me great stories which I had time to research and post. The things I learned doing Music Thing (the internet stuff more than the guitars shaped like guns) have now helped me get a job where I'm in charge of the online output of The Times newspaper, managing 40+ people and a history going back to 1785. I spend all day on the web, talking and thinking about traffic, developers, links and readers. It's no longer what I want to do at home, so this will be the last Music Thing post. That's right, I've used this blog to get what I want, now I'm spitting it out like stale gum. Sorry about that. Thank you to everyone who has ever sent me an idea, particularly if I never got round to using it. Thanks to my fellow gear geek bloggers who have given so much help, friendship and inspiration. Special shouts out to Peters Kirn, Rojas and Taylor, Joel Johnson, Chris Randall, Matrix, Neil S and Michael M. (Image via Keith) BONUS: Get extra Music Thing updates at: http://twitter.com/MusicThing or in the sidebar at http://musicthing.blogspot.com

Come Saturday, I’ll be up at Erina to grab my copy of Black Ice. Sure, I know what I am in for but I am excited. And to get y’all excited, here is my track by track review. Rock’n'Roll Train This song has been kicking around for a few months now. A great opening track that reassembles [...]

I am constantly in awe of real musicians. This clip (wait a mo while it winds forward to 44:20) is 'The Grid' from Koyaanisqatsi, which could be the greatest music video ever made - certainly the most copied. Anyway, listening to the score the other morning, wondering how it was played - it starts out slow, then gets absurdly fast (at 47:40), and carries on for about 16 minutes without drawing breath. In search of visual evidence, I found this awesome clip of Philip Glass rocking the Prophet 5 in 1982, and this college band playing something from Glassworks. I can't imagine being able to do that. Don't your fingers really hurt? Doesn't your brain melt?  

Tune Buster is a free keyboard synthesizer for OS X, and can turn your musical USB keyboard into a complete instrument. Tune Buster is easy to use and no configuration is needed, just start the program, plug in a keyboard and play.

Different sounds can be selected by clicking the desired instrument in the popup menu. Use the arrow keys or the mouse scroll button if you have one to speed up the selection process.

Tune Buster can be made invisible by closing the main window, and the keyboard will still play.