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Free Scales
Free Woodwind Fingering Charts
Free Music Notation Software
Free Transcribed Saxophone Solos
Free 'Instant Accompaniment' Play Along Software
Free Jazz Handbook from Jamey Aebersold
Free Music Staff Paper
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It is my goal to continually search for (and list them here as I find them) free music education resources, including music software programs, games, free sheet music, exercises & drills, free transcribed solos, free online fingering charts, free metronomes, free tuners, and other resources for the benefit of music students, private teachers, private music schools, music educators, school districts, and anyone who might find them useful, particularly those individuals and organizations who are in a situation where music education funding resources are very low or non-existant. Obviously the list here is by no means a complete one - it is merely representative of some of the many resources I found out there which I thought were particularly good. I am always interested in listing free music learning resources for everybody regardless of age or ability level, including music games for kids, sax solo transcriptions for more advanced players, or anything and everything which is free and readily available to make learning music easier & more accessible for any individual or organization who's interested.
PLEASE - if you see a website with freely available musical education resources which you think should be listed here, by all means send me an email to music4all@zacworld.com so I can check it out & possibly list it.
Also, if you have a site which is similar to Zacworld in content and interests in music education, jazz solo transcriptions, saxophone, woodwinds, etc., and you would like to like to exchange reciprocal links, please add your link to my link partners page.
Thanks!
Zac
 | Earplane.com - great online eartraining site! |
| Earplane.com |
| Here's a great ear training site which includes separate tests for harmonic intervals, melodic intervals, intonation, 4 note chords, rhythms, and many others. It tracks your score & maintains a top-10 list. Now also available for Android phones. |
| Music Trainers & Utilities from Ricci Adams |
| Music Trainers Online |
| My favorite music training and skill building site - what a terrific job Ricci Adams has done! VERY VERY COOL. You can either do the trainers online, or you can download the Offline Edition. Unlike some other sites I used to link to, Ricci still generously provides all the programs and content on his website free of charge. If you wish to support his work, he accepts donations. |
| Online Music Games & Tutorials You Can Do Right From Your Browser! |
| Java Music Theory
FUN online music tutorials - check 'em out! |
Free Music Online Games
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| Metronimo's Online Music games
Games include Hangman, Word Search, Memorization, Quiz, and Puzzle. |
| Note Naming Programs |
| BeSharp Flashcard Trainer |
| Stand alone version |
| BeSharp is a simple java program which will test and time you on your ability to read notes. BeSharp's java programming was developed by one of my students (an adult computer programmer). Requires java to be enabled in your browser. |
| Note ID 3.0 |
| Note ID |
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This Note ID program isn't a "great" application, but it is free and might be useful for those who want to learn a bit of piano along with note identification. For non-pianists don't bother with it, you're better off sticking with B-Sharp or the Note Trainer utility at musictheory.net
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| Rhythm Tapping Programs |
| Earope For Windows | |
| This is a GREAT rhythm tapping program. The shareware has some limitations, but is still well worth the download. If you are one of my students, PLEASE download and use it! |
Free Fingering Charts | |
| Free saxophone fingering chart |
| Free clarinet fingering chart |
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| Free flute fingering chart |
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| Free oboe fingering chart |
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| Free bassoon fingering chart |
Music Dictionary Online | |
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A great online music dictionary with brief definitions of the most common musical terms. |
Metronomes--for free! | |
| AN ONLINE METRONOME! Just turn on your speakers, click this link and BOOM!!! - you have a metronome! |
| YGS Free Metronome A nice freeware metronome from Yellow Gold Software. Basic metronome with tempos from 40 to 208 and includes tempo terms next to the beats per minute numbers, i.e. next to 40 it says Largo, 72 Adagio, 152 Allegro, and so forth. |
| Metronome - light edition (downloadable) PC-only downloadable shareware metronome that works really well. According to the documentation it will work for 30 minutes a day unless you purchase the full version (although it kept working for me past 30 minutes). |
Impro-visor free play-along program | |||||||
| Free alternative to Band-In-A-Box!. Impro-visor is a free program which gives you an instant rhythm section to play to. Just enter the chord symbols and Impro-visor does the rest. | |
| Download Impro-visor |
Free Music Notation Programs | |||||||
| These notation programs are all FREE. | |||||||
| MuseScore is the best *totally free* music notation program I know of at this time. MuseScore is a free cross platform WYSIWYG music notation program, licenced under GNU GPL and is continually being developed by programmers generously donating their time. If you can't afford a commercial program (such as Sibelius, Notion, or Finale) this is the one to get! | |
| Musescore |
| Noteflight is not as fully featured as MuseScore BUT Noteflight does offer something MuseScore (and no other notation software I know of at this point) does not -- the ability to directly write & save your music online -- no uploading needed. Very easy to use with many Sibelius-like features. There are some interesting options you can do there, such as composing on someone else's composition (if they let you) or let someone else compose on yours (if you're brave). | |
| Noteflight |
| LilyPond is another free notation program constantly being developed under the licensced under GNU GPL. It uses a text based input system and claims to have a more beautiful traditional plate engraving look than other notation programs. For details see their FAQ. | |
| LilyPond |
| Here's an older one for Mac called Nightlite. From it's description it sounds like it will let you edit, save, print and playback your own music files. | |
| NightLight for Mac |
Hey look - it's a free tuner! (Windows only) |
| AP Instrument Tuner |
Some more tuners from hitsquad.com |
| MANY MANY TUNERS at hitsquad.com |
Newsgroups (also called discussion forums) | |
| alt.flute |
| alt.music.clarinet |
| alt.music.saxophone |
| rec.music.makers.saxophone |
Free Sheet Music sites | |
| The Sheet Music Archive Free downloadable sheet music you can get right now. |
| free-scores.com Many links to more free sheet music sites |
| Sibeliusmusic.com Many pages of sheet music you can see & play through your browser uploaded from users of Sibelius notation software. A lot of it is free, some of it you have to buy. In order to view these pages in your browser you will need to install the Scorch plug-in |
| Werner Icking Music Archive Lots of sheet music in PDF and GIF format |
| Ralph Patt's Jazz Web Page Printable chord changes to over four hundred jazz standards |
| Ralph Patt's Backing Track Page Play along tracks for over four hundred jazz standards |
Other Music Interests Websites | |
| Jazz Handbook by Jamey Aebersold THIS IS A MUST HAVE FOR ALL LEVELS! I highly recommend saving this handbook to your computer ASAP since it has a way of disappearing from previous places where it was posted. |
| Ricci Adams' musictheory.net --- An excellent site for music education! |
| The Practice Spot --- A really well organized site for students and teachers. |
| SAXONTHEWEB.NET Awesome site! |
Why should I practice scales???Here are some free printable scales I've provided for you. You most likely have this already, but if not, to view and/or print the scales you'll need to get Adobe Acrobat's PDF Reader, which you can get from here: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
| Scales, scales, scales...view them, print them...and, by all means, practice them! | |||||||
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| Blank Music Writing Paper | |
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| 10 Staves | 12 Staves |
To make your own custom printable music staff paper check out Blanksheetmusic.net