and been frustrated with the results?

3,160,000 web pages on free sheet music. Arrrgghh!!!!

I scarcely have the time to look through 1 million web sites let alone 3,160,000 :-)

I've done quite a bit of searching on the net for sheet music. And I think I can help you avoid some of the pain I've experienced in my Internet wanderings for music.

Instead it of giving you yet another web site that lists thousands of music download sites, I'd like to provide you with the information you need to find exactly the free sheet music sites that you are looking for, and find them quickly. I'd like to show you how to quickly evaluate any web site in terms of it's value to YOU.

A quick analysis of a web site will tell you:

• Why the web site exists?
• How a site makes or doesn't make money?
• The quality of the music available for download?
• Etc.

In understanding the answers to these questions you will be well equipped to find the free sheet music that YOU are looking for. In answering the questions, you can quickly deduce whether the site deserves another 15 seconds of your time.

I'll explain in detail the exact steps I go through to very quickly evaluate a music site. You can copy my method exactly, or you can customize it however suits you best.

Hopefully yes. I have some skills, experience, and idiosyncracies that combined make me quite good at finding free sheet music. And that, hopefully, is a plus for you in your music finding endeavors.

I am an engineer turned computer programmer. For the last 10 years, I have been a professional programmer. Before that, I was a rocket scientist for 7 years. For the last six years as a programmer I have been working primarily as an Internet programmer. I love efficiency, automating mundane and repetitive tasks, and finding more efficient ways to do things, like search the Internet for free music. I am very familiar with software, computers and many facets of the Internet, and there's a good chance this experience can help you in your searches for free music. I've developed some software tools that help me to find the best free music site quickly.

I am a musician, definitely not a professional, but I do love many types of music. I love to listen. I love to play. I play two instruments, the piano and the ocarina. I've played the piano since kindergarten. My parents forced me to take piano lessons for years and years, which I hated. And sometime in my teens my hate turned to love. Thanks Mom and Dad for not letting me quit!! My parents also forced me to eat broccoli, which I hated. But I'll save that story for my next Web site. Recently I've learned to play the ocarina. If you don't know what the ocarina is, it's a very small flute. It's small enough to fit in your pocket and take with you anywhere. I guess it's sort of the opposite of the piano, in that most pianos are not pocket instruments. I play Mountain Ocarinas, which in my humble opinion are the best Ocarinas in the universe. Well, perhaps it's a bit presumptuous for me to speak of other planets and galaxies, since I've never been out of our galaxy. In all seriousness... on several occasions, I've heard Mountain Ocarinas referred to as the "Stradivarius" of pocket instruments. They are quite amazing. Very unique.

I love a bargain. Discount is better than retail. Big discount is better than a small discount. And free is best of price all. Some might call me cheap, or a penny pincher, or a tightwad. I just call myself frugal.