Product Review: Musicnotes downloadable sheet music

About the company: Musicnotes.com offers more than 45,000 pieces of instant digital sheet music from major publishing companies such as Warner Brothers, Universal, BMG, and EMI. Their online store features over 260,000 books, CDs, and videos, and recently the site passed the one-millionth download mark in the summer of 2005. The Rolling Stones even used their patented MusicNotesXtra technology in their newly released singles box-set to teach fans how to play “Sympathy for the Devil” (the official theme song for aging rockers).
The big pitch: Printable sheet music that is instantly accessible at more than reasonable prices.

Buying sheet music is now easier than purchasing a book online. Can’t remember the title or artist behind your favorite track? Just make like the La-La Lady from “Name That Tune” and type in a few lyrics, and the advanced search engine will tell you what you're looking for. It also allows you to look for songs by instrument, style, scoring, level of difficulty, composer, or lyricist.

The instant download, purchase, and print technology bheind Musicnotes is perfect for professional musicians, teachers, or anyone who wants to learn a new tune right away - but doesn’t want to schlep to the music store or wait for a snail-mail order of sheet music to arrive. Download the free viewer and player to see what your music looks like before you purchase - it couldn't be simpler!

Indulge your inner rock star and learn the guitar with Musicnotes' online help. The guitar guru section provides instruction as well as virtual fret boards, adjustable tempos, CD-synch technology, and printable tab for beginning students. A recent tie-in with Guitar Player magazine also gives their readers the chance to pick one free download per month from a list of fifteen selections.

As an amateur musician, I was amazed to find sheet music for the trumpet as low as $1.95 (“Stairway to Heaven”), and the site offers an amazing genre of music - everything from Christian pop to classical to AFI’s 100 best movie songs. Whether you play piano, drums, bass guitar or the harpsichord, Musicnotes' books of sheet music are much cheaper than my local music store, and the selection is much larger.

And that's not all - Musicnotes also offers a discount card for 10% off all purchases, and they offer monthly specials to keep things fresh and inexpensive. If you play any sort of music instrument, you really need to take a look at Musicnotes today!

The Product Trends rating: Five stars! Incredible catalog of music, free software, well-priced sheet music books, one of the best music search engines on the web, and complimentary customer service for all services. Musicnotes doesn’t need to blow their own horn - there are already too many fans willing to do it for them with their own downloadable sheet music. ---Reviewed by Teresa Wentz

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