The original post: /r/piracy by /u/The_Man_in_your_wall on 2024-07-02 00:06:32.

I have been learning piano recently, so I thought I would play some songs I enjoy. But my brother in Christ, I’m not going to pay $5 for one song. Oh boy, the amount of times I searched “[Song name]Free Piano sheet” and it’s a free trial.

Cheers

  • agentshags
    1•4 months ago

    I can’t help, but just wanted to say this is something I’m legitimately curious about.

    For a friend.

    • agentshags
      1•4 months ago

      Also, I asked my sister, she wasn’t much help, but maybe this helps:

      So classical, popular, lead sheets (melody with chord symbols)-I don’t know anything about pirating. But there isn’t “one” piece of sheet music usually-“Sheet Music” if it’s some popular/rock etc…:there may be a gazillion arrangements-if it includes voice then basically it is just covering the “orchestration” of the piece-but one might want to look for “easy piano” (which has a ton of variance in “level” as there is no solely adjective standard) or “primer” piano-there are a lot of regular people that arrange tunes. Classical music might be “free” but the “arranger” Wouk add fingering, phrasing, dynamics…especially beginning music. “Urtext” is a German edition that has a lot of classical music as “originally” notated…

      • agentshags
        1•4 months ago

        Apps are great to learn basics/cheap to free-but “pirating” may not super relevant anyway as there is so much available-but it’s a pretty (too) broad of a question…