[douglas englund]

does anyone know of a site were you can get free notation sheet music. i just cant get up to speed with tabbs. i wish Kirks lessons where in notaton. any help will be appreciated. thanks

[guttertrashsingalong]

all i could find was just a bunch of endless links for sites that kept dragging me on and on and on and on and on and on Good Luck

[allthumbs]

They are really hard to find. So many people play tabs and write tabs for posting. The same can't be said for standard. It is also more common to sell sheet music than make it public domain. Good luck.

[Fretsource]

Apart from classical guitar music, I don't know any free notation sites. It's understandable I guess. Tab is easy to write and post (like here for example) but notation requires special notation writing software as well as some expertise in writing it.
There was some classical stuff at http://www.delcamp.net/ but I just checked it now and the site's down. Hopefully it's only temporary.

Which brings me to plan B
It's worth investing in a Tab/notation writer such as Guitar Pro. It can convert midi files to notation. Very useful as it's much easier to find free midi files on the net than free notation.

[guttertrashsingalong]

any free notation software that maybe he can transfer himself?

[slejhamer]

Originally Posted by guttertrashsingalong

any free notation software that maybe he can transfer himself?

Powertab is free and shows both tab and standard notation, but I believe you can only input in the tab lines (not sure 'bout that though):
http://www.power-tab.net/guitar.php

[cshude]

Well, there's some work-arounds if you're willing to spend a couple bucks- like Fretsource said above, you can do something like Guitar Pro- another way is through some of the recording software out there. I use Powertracks 10 (www.pgmusic.com) and one of the fieatures is a notation window that will put any midi tracks into notation. One thing to be aware of, however, is that the software will typically put everything into C unless you go in and change it. Otherwise, it works pretty cool. Plus you get some really good recording software, all for about $50. Tough to beat.

[namiguShin]

Originally Posted by douglas englund

i wish Kirks lessons where in notaton.

But they are... GuitarPro files have both tabs and notation, don't they? So, you should search for GP files... But you cannot download them from the official GP files site... Same reason as Kirk's for not doing covers anymore...

[tcliff]

Also, if you look at Kirk's lessons, you'll find a lot of them have an attachment that includes both tab & notation.

[BENharperROX]

i can't read music for anything...

[Bob Wolford]

TablEdit files contain both tab and notation as well

[737blues]

Originally Posted by tcliff

Also, if you look at Kirk's lessons, you'll find a lot of them have an attachment that includes both tab & notation.

That's because he uses Guitar Pro, which automatically produces both TAB and conventional notation. It is a bit pricey, but worth the dollars IMHO. Got a really good chord generator coded into it too, I discovered the other day.

[douglas englund]

thanks for all the great information.I will look for the site kirks lesson are in both and buy the porgram that converts tab to notes. thanks

[Kirk Lorange]

Hi Douglas ... I started including notation in my lessons a few months ago, so the lessons from Classical Gas on (the lessons are in chronological order with the newer ones on page 1) have the notation attached.

[guttertrashsingalong]

i like our tabs,only we understand them...and um when i say we i mean guitarist in general.