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There's very little - it seems that the IP holders are quite fierce about protecting proper sheet music. Even the stuff I've bought is marked up with my name and that it's for a single print only.
Sometimes they come up on ebay (usually an entire arrangement from Hal Leonard etc) but it's not much cheaper.
Occasionally the stuff I want matches up with the stuff the local music trust band (that I play in) wants and then I can get them to buy it and I store the back ups.
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It's not that I'm not prepared to pay for it, I just can't afford a minimum of a fiver per piece before I can even see if I can play it or not. I used to do that with guitar books, and spent hundreds on a huge pile of stuff I've never been good enough to play, so I don't want to do that with the piano, too.
I used to be part of sheetmusicdirect.com, and that charged a variety of prices from as little as 99p, but from what I could see when I was on, that was 99% guitar based, which is why I haven't gone back for piano.
You tend to have to trawl a lot of search results for things like "Elton John Your Song pdf sheet music free" or whatever it is you're looking for, hopefully at some point you find some random Russian who's uploaded loads of pdfs that you can download but you have to be careful as a lot of the sites like that have dodgy links on them as well
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Often If I'm not sure of a piece I will look on Youtube for "example piano cover or lesson " .... then you will generally get a hit. With so many ways to voice the same chords though you might need to trawl through a few before you get one that's very accurate indeed.
Nothing wrong with classical music, I'd just like to do other stuff instead.
How do any of you who are keyboard players in bands go about finding what you need? Or are you good enough to work it out for yourselves?
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One of the reasons big band leaders create their own arrangements is to highlight their featured instrumentalists. Another is that they no longer need to hire the standard sheet music.
I'm not against paying for sheet music. It's copyrighted material, the creators need and deserve to earn a living.
What I'm trying to do is avoid paying 20 quid for a book of songs that I only have the ability to play 2 or 3 of, or that only had 2 or 3 songs out of, say 15, that I even wanted to play. I have an entire library of guitar tab books like that. I've spent hundreds on music beyond my limited scope.
So I'm not trying to avoid spending money, I'm trying to avoid wasting it.
I'd just like to find some music that's both playable and affordable.
Oh, and I have nothing in particular in mind, just a site that I can look through and think "Ooh, I quite fancy having a go at that..." now and again.
The other option is Scribd. This is a paid for service (costs about £8 a month) but you get access to oodles of sheet music as well as audio books, ebooks, magazines etc. I've been using Scribd for about 3 years now and love it.