sheet music to download. anyone have the ability?

[tinker]

Short version, my son 12 and plays alto sax. He hates jazz and his teacher trying to get him to practice jazz. After doing some exploring (he doesn't like blues so much as I do) it turns out he likes funk.

We saw on youtube a group playing uptown funk and he loved it. I went online to find a source for sheet music and all the ones I could find want you to sign up for monthly subscriptions etc. We are not going to really use it.

Does anyone on here have a source to be able to get the sheet music? I don't mind paying a couple bucks online to download one time if it's the correct music.

A group called cannonball music did this rendition.


We found a tutorial on youtube that has the right notes but he hates the notes going across the screen. That's why I am trying to find the music.

I asked the music store we go to and they had no idea.

 

[Makinchips208]

Short version, my son 12 and plays alto sax. He hates jazz and his teacher trying to get him to practice jazz. After doing some exploring (he doesn't like blues so much as I do) it turns out he likes funk.

We saw on youtube a group playing uptown funk and he loved it. I went online to find a source for sheet music and all the ones I could find want you to sign up for monthly subscriptions etc. We are not going to really use it.

Does anyone on here have a source to be able to get the sheet music? I don't mind paying a couple bucks online to download one time if it's the correct music.

A group called cannonball music did this rendition.


We found a tutorial on youtube that has the right notes but he hates the notes going across the screen. That's why I am trying to find the music.

I asked the music store we go to and they had no idea.

I use Musicnotes
I have an account obviously, but I don’t do monthly payments, I just buy as the kids want a song. Ive paid between $5 and $10 for a song and hit print.

Here is what that app shows for that song with sax.

 

[tinker]

I use Musicnotes
I have an account obviously, but I don’t do monthly payments, I just buy as the kids want a song. Ive paid between $5 and $10 for a song and hit print.

Here is what that app shows for that song with sax.

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Thank you I had not found that one. I will give it a try.

I just hope its the right one. (as in easy for him to play). I am going to download him the easy one first.

 

[n2ishun]

Shit ain't even hard to find.

Free Area | Alto Sax | WindTab

Here you can try out our alto saxophone tab for free.

www.windtabmusic.com

BTW search for "free sax tabs".
Yea they are called tabs, not sheet music, by musicians.....only high school wanna-be teachers say sheet music.
That shit went out in the 50's.

 

[tinker]

But now a little confused. It says add pdf download for 3 dollars.... For five bucks do they mail you a printed copy? I didn't want to clink on it now because I just realized my home printer is out of ink (I never print anything at home anymore). I was going to wait to use my printer at work.

The explanation on the site isn't very clear.....

 

[tinker]

Shit ain't even hard to find.

Free Area | Alto Sax | WindTab

Here you can try out our alto saxophone tab for free.

www.windtabmusic.com

BTW search for "free sax tabs".
Yea they are called tabs, not sheet music, by musicians.....only high school wanna-be teachers say sheet music.
That shit went out in the 50's.

Not going to lie, I suck at technology. I am happier at my lathe cutting metal old school.

 

[tinker]

Shit ain't even hard to find.

Free Area | Alto Sax | WindTab

Here you can try out our alto saxophone tab for free.

www.windtabmusic.com

BTW search for "free sax tabs".
Yea they are called tabs, not sheet music, by musicians.....only high school wanna-be teachers say sheet music.
That shit went out in the 50's.

tried that site and some others again by searching for it but this time as "tabs" no luck. there are some sites I found. But none that had that song.

Music score looks like a scam site. So still trying to figure it out.

 

[Makinchips208]

But now a little confused. It says add pdf download for 3 dollars.... For five bucks do they mail you a printed copy? I didn't want to clink on it now because I just realized my home printer is out of ink (I never print anything at home anymore). I was going to wait to use my printer at work.

The explanation on the site isn't very clear.....

Musicnotes not music score.

it isn’t the most intuitive app, unfortunately. Probably better ones but it works for me with lots of music available.

you don’t have to buy the pdf. Just the song, then top right the plus sign will give you options. Press print, when it’s done and it ask if it printed successfully, just say “no” and back out of there.
I had one song it only let me print once then I had to buy the pdf to reprint more. Psh.

Top right.

Print

 

[Makinchips208]

Shit ain't even hard to find.

Free Area | Alto Sax | WindTab

Here you can try out our alto saxophone tab for free.

www.windtabmusic.com

BTW search for "free sax tabs".
Yea they are called tabs, not sheet music, by musicians.....only high school wanna-be teachers say sheet music.
That shit went out in the 50's.

Tabs are not the same as notes.
Be musically illiterate if you want by only learning tabs.

 

[Makinchips208]

Here is a YouTube version of the first result for uptown funk. I saw the name Tomas Nedoh under the title and I searched for that and found the YouTube video, so the 12 year old can hear what it is kinda supposed to sound like.




And if there is an option maybe a new teacher would be in the works? Or a talk with the teacher anyways.
Our kids piano teacher was pushing a certain type of music for a while. He is so amazing so we didn’t want to switch, so I finally had a talk with him and now he works with the kids to find stuff they liked better. It’s all good now!

 

[vh20]

Shit ain't even hard to find.

Free Area | Alto Sax | WindTab

Here you can try out our alto saxophone tab for free.

www.windtabmusic.com

BTW search for "free sax tabs".
Yea they are called tabs, not sheet music, by musicians.....only high school wanna-be teachers say sheet music.
That shit went out in the 50's.

Tabs (tablature) and sheet music are two different things. Actual "tabs" show fingering (originally designed for fretted instruments, but adapted for others), whereas sheet music shows the traditional note. Tabs were designed to show people who can't read music how to play a song in a purely mechanical way.

 

[vh20]

Tabs are not the same as notes.
Be musically illiterate if you want by only learning tabs.

Sorry, I didn't see that you had beat me to it.

Professional musicians don't use tabs. If they aren't playing from sheet music, they make shorthand "charts", like when you go into a studio session to record a song that is being arranged and recorded simultaneously, and the sheet music doesn't even exist yet and there isn't time to write it out longhand (time is $$$$ in the studio). Session players will chart it out, and the chart sometimes may only make complete sense to the player who wrote it. But none of them are using tabs.

 

[Moe Ron]

My input FWIW. As a wee lad I started taking piano lessons. When I got to junior high I started playing trumpet. Always had a sheet of music in front of me. Take away the sheet and I was lost. It became a crutch. Much later in life I started playing guitar. I learned a lot of songs by ear. Playing albums over and over, finding the notes and going from there.
My point is that sheet music is fine but encourage him to learn to play by ear. I found this video on YouTube. Didn’t listen to the whole thing but it seemed to be a good way to go. Macro Parker is the man. He played with James Brown and later on with Prince.

 

[n2ishun]

Tabs are not the same as notes.
Be musically illiterate if you want by only learning tabs.

Huh.....funny who uses tabs these days and not sheet music.

https://cso.org/experience/article/1291/musicians-know-the-score-and-its-increasingly

Of course you're certainly allowed to argue with the pros, but I doubt you'll get very far by extolling the virtues of an obsolete method of print vs digital.
You do know that you can change key, shift tempo, hell swap to another instrument......instantly.
How long do you figure that will take with printed sheet music ?

You're such a pro (or try to come off as one) enlighten us master of all.

 

[vh20]

Huh.....funny who uses tabs these days and not sheet music.

https://cso.org/experience/article/1291/musicians-know-the-score-and-its-increasingly

Of course you're certainly allowed to argue with the pros, but I doubt you'll get very far by extolling the virtues of an obsolete method of print vs digital.
You do know that you can change key, shift tempo, hell swap to another instrument......instantly.
How long do you figure that will take with printed sheet music ?

You're such a pro (or try to come off as one) enlighten us master of all.

Um, those are electronic tablets, not "tabs". And in the picture you linked, the tablet is showing...sheet music on its screen. Those aren't the "free sax tabs" you referenced before. If you follow the link in your first post, it shows what "tabs" actually are. No one is saying that musicians aren't using tablets.

 

[tinker]

My input FWIW. As a wee lad I started taking piano lessons. When I got to junior high I started playing trumpet. Always had a sheet of music in front of me. Take away the sheet and I was lost. It became a crutch. Much later in life I started playing guitar. I learned a lot of songs by ear. Playing albums over and over, finding the notes and going from there.
My point is that sheet music is fine but encourage him to learn to play by ear. I found this video on YouTube. Didn’t listen to the whole thing but it seemed to be a good way to go. Macro Parker is the man. He played with James Brown and later on with Prince.

I play guitar and can't read sheet music. I do read guitar tabs of course. I do know my 5 positions of the pentatonic scales and recently tried to make time to learn some major scales. But I found not being able to read sheet music holds me back a lot. Someday when I retire I will have time.

He has only been playing a couple years in school. I can't get him to practice as much as I would like. But he recently played with the high school marching band at the homecoming game and he loved it. That I think is making him practice more. He didn't play out on the field with them at halftime but he played during the game in the stands. Him and some of the other middle school kids got to go.

 

[tinker]

Musicnotes not music score.

it isn’t the most intuitive app, unfortunately. Probably better ones but it works for me with lots of music available.

you don’t have to buy the pdf. Just the song, then top right the plus sign will give you options. Press print, when it’s done and it ask if it printed successfully, just say “no” and back out of there.
I had one song it only let me print once then I had to buy the pdf to reprint more. Psh.

Top right.
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Print
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What I find odd about that is if I can print as a pdf why would it cost more to download the pdf...

 

[tinker]

Here is a YouTube version of the first result for uptown funk. I saw the name Tomas Nedoh under the title and I searched for that and found the YouTube video, so the 12 year old can hear what it is kinda supposed to sound like.




And if there is an option maybe a new teacher would be in the works? Or a talk with the teacher anyways.
Our kids piano teacher was pushing a certain type of music for a while. He is so amazing so we didn’t want to switch, so I finally had a talk with him and now he works with the kids to find stuff they liked better. It’s all good now!

It's funny, I have to talked to the shop owner already about switching teachers. The teacher is a young (mid twenties I think) arrogant little prick with an attitude. There is a guitar player there that I talk to (works behind the counter not a teacher) and he is friends with him and convinced me to give him a chance because apparently he is supposed to be a good teacher but not good with people.....just once in a while he makes me want to punch him in the face so I think a new teacher will eventually be happening. The only reason I hesitate is I don't want to make it about me. If my son gets along with him and is learning.....changing could be bad. He is on the autism spectrum so change doesn't usually go well. Plus my schedule is tight and if I switch teachers he may not be able to get private lessons anymore.

I was surprised when my son was falling behind in music in his second year.....the teacher said he needed private lessons and I asked what was going on in class...? The teacher said they don't teach except 4th & 5th grade.....he skipped a grade halfway through 4th so he only had one year of being taught in school.

 

[Emerson0311]

It's funny, I have to talked to the shop owner already about switching teachers. The teacher is a young (mid twenties I think) arrogant little prick with an attitude. There is a guitar player there that I talk to (works behind the counter not a teacher) and he is friends with him and convinced me to give him a chance because apparently he is supposed to be a good teacher but not good with people.....just once in a while he makes me want to punch him in the face so I think a new teacher will eventually be happening. The only reason I hesitate is I don't want to make it about me. If my son gets along with him and is learning.....changing could be bad. He is on the autism spectrum so change doesn't usually go well. Plus my schedule is tight and if I switch teachers he may not be able to get private lessons anymore.

I was surprised when my son was falling behind in music in his second year.....the teacher said he needed private lessons and I asked what was going on in class...? The teacher said they don't teach except 4th & 5th grade.....he skipped a grade halfway through 4th so he only had one year of being taught in school.

Tight schedules, extracurricular programs, and kids on the spectrum is a tough thing to navigate. We just had to switch jujitsu schools for one of our kids. The process was no fun, but often kids are more resilient than we give them credit for, especially when they know we care about them.

 

[n2ishun]

Um, those are electronic tablets, not "tabs". And in the picture you linked, the tablet is showing...sheet music on its screen. Those aren't the "free sax tabs" you referenced before. If you follow the link in your first post, it shows what "tabs" actually are. No one is saying that musicians aren't using tablets.

Please inform as to where I used the word "tablature" ?

You said that, not me.

Tabs are downloadable files for free.....sheet music isn't......unless you like shitty .pdf's.

 

[vh20]

Please inform as to where I used the word "tablature" ?

You said that, not me.

Tabs are downloadable files for free.....sheet music isn't......unless you like shitty .pdf's.

I didn't say you said "tablature" either. You said "tabs", which is short for "tablature". Then you posted a link to them, and what you linked was tablature. That's why it said "free sax tabs", because tabs ARE tablature, hence the name. Google "guitar tabs", "sax tabs", even "piano tabs" and see what you get - a graphic depiction, not music.

 

[tinker]

Tight schedules, extracurricular programs, and kids on the spectrum is a tough thing to navigate. We just had to switch jujitsu schools for one of our kids. The process was no fun, but often kids are more resilient than we give them credit for, especially when they know we care about them.

we also have kickboxing in there too a few days a week. Luckily it's a great school. They do jujitsu too but he tried it and couldn't handle the grappling......yet maybe someday.

 

[n2ishun]

I didn't say you said "tablature" either. You said "tabs", which is short for "tablature". Then you posted a link to them, and what you linked was tablature. That's why it said "free sax tabs", because tabs ARE tablature, hence the name. Google "guitar tabs", "sax tabs", even "piano tabs" and see what you get - a graphic depiction, not music.

You
Are
Dumb

 

[tinker]

You
Are
Dumb

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Weird....doesn't look like uptown funk....

 

[Emerson0311]

we also have kickboxing in there too a few days a week. Luckily it's a great school. They do jujitsu too but he tried it and couldn't handle the grappling......yet maybe someday.

I’ve got one that can’t handle the grappling either. He does classic karate.

 

[Makinchips208]

Weird....doesn't look like uptown funk....

Good luck with the music for your son. Band is really cool!

 

[vh20]

You
Are
Dumb

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I appreciate the commentary on my intellect. I’ve been respectful to you so far. If you’re name-calling, you’re losing.

How’d that Google search work out for you? (No actual musicians call music “tabs”…at least not in the Nashville or local studios I’ve worked in. Maybe you have a local colloquialism in your area?)

 

[tinker]

I appreciate the commentary on my intellect. I’ve been respectful to you so far. If you’re name-calling, you’re losing.

How’d that Google search work out for you? (No actual musicians call music “tabs”…at least not in the Nashville or local studios I’ve worked in. Maybe you have a local colloquialism in your area?)

I have to agree with that. I can't really read sheet music. For guitar I use tablature. I barely have studio time with a band (like literally only two sessions). But I still only read tab and it is definitely not sheet music.

 

[CaptArab]

You
Are
Dumb

Tablature (tabs) are a fretted instrument thing. No sax player calls a music sheet a tab. The websites are using the word "tabs" because it drives a lot of traffic and they can sell more ads that way.

 

[mrdrar]

Nashville Number System - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[CaptArab]

I appreciate the commentary on my intellect. I’ve been respectful to you so far. If you’re name-calling, you’re losing.

How’d that Google search work out for you? (No actual musicians call music “tabs”…at least not in the Nashville or local studios I’ve worked in. Maybe you have a local colloquialism in your area?)

The Dunning-Kruger is strong in here tonight

 

[CaptArab]

He has only been playing a couple years in school. I can't get him to practice as much as I would like. But he recently played with the high school marching band at the homecoming game and he loved it. That I think is making him practice more. He didn't play out on the field with them at halftime but he played during the game in the stands. Him and some of the other middle school kids got to go.

Good teachers know how to sneak the vitamins in with the ice cream. I had a music teacher in highschool that taught me music theory while breaking down Hendrix and Steely Dan guitar solos. I actually didn't realize it until I was able to coast through advanced music theory classes in college while others were working there butts off studying (and I wasn't a straight A student).

If your kid doesn't connect with an instrument or teacher, honestly I'd find one he did connect with. Learning music is too hard to make it work if you don't enjoy it.

Good on you for trying to help him out.

 

[vh20]

Nashville Number System - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Those are one way (a very good way) of “charting” a song, which I mentioned earlier. Players would refer to that as a chart (but never a tab). Almost every blues player knows what a I, IV, V (or 1,4,5) progression is, which is a basic version of that.

 

[vh20]

Good teachers know how to sneak the vitamins in with the ice cream. I had a music teacher in highschool that taught me music theory while breaking down Hendrix and Steely Dan guitar solos. I actually didn't realize it until I was able to coast through advanced music theory classes in college while others work working there butts off studying (and I wasn't a straight A student).

If your kid doesn't connect with an instrument or teacher, honestly I'd find one he did connect with. Learning music is too hard to make it work if you don't enjoy it.

Good on you for trying to help him out.

That’s an awesome teacher right there.

 

[n2ishun]

I appreciate the commentary on my intellect. I’ve been respectful to you so far.

No, you most certainly have not

If you’re name-calling, you’re losing.

How’d that Google search work out for you? (No actual musicians call music “tabs”…at least not in the Nashville or local studios I’ve worked in. Maybe you have a local colloquialism in your area?)

And there is the proof, dumbass.

I intentionally did not search for ghetto ass music that ain't worth a flying fuck in a sand storm.
I won't offend my computer by typing that assholes name into it.
Shaneequah, LaShonda, Tyrone....whatever.....Diddy probably had his way with that one.

 

[vh20]

No, you most certainly have not

And there is the proof, dumbass.

I intentionally did not search for ghetto ass music that ain't worth a flying fuck in a sand storm.
I won't offend my computer by typing that assholes name into it.
Shaneequah, LaShonda, Tyrone....whatever.....Diddy probably had his way with that one.

I've gotta admit... I have no idea what any of that means.

You claim I've disrespected you, but all I have done is point out what you are mis-stating (no name-calling, etc from me).

And that last paragraph is total gibberish. I have no idea what you're talking about. I simply suggested you search for what the word "tab" refers to in the music world, which will show you it certainly isn't what you stated. That is all. Your argument has really gone off the rails now, with trying to connect that to ghetto music, some "a-hole's name" that I never mentioned or would even know who you mean, and then a bunch of ethnic-sounding names culminating in Diddy somehow controlling it all. You've entered another dimension that I simply can't follow you into. What it has to do with anything I've said is beyond me.

Continue to call me "dumbass" all you want. I'll stick to the facts I presented, and remain unaffected by your rants.

@tinker : My apologies for my part in derailing this thread into where it has lead. At least (I think) you were able to get some good leads for what you were looking for.

 

[n2ishun]

You, have presented zero facts.

I showed how easy it is to get what the OP desires, YOU did not.
You contradict everything in this thread from what you post.
You said tabs are for stringed instruments and are finger placement charts for same.....

I post a tab showing....
wait for it.....
wait for it....

The literal definition of sheet music for alto sax with no finger placement charts.....huh.

You seem to not have noticed that, OR.....you are in denial because everything you have posted so far is incorrect.
Yet you still think somehow whatever you've said is gospel.

FUCKING PROVE IT







dumbass.

 

[vh20]

You, have presented zero facts.

I showed how easy it is to get what the OP desires, YOU did not.
You contradict everything in this thread from what you post.
You said tabs are for stringed instruments and are finger placement charts for same.....

I post a tab showing....
wait for it.....
wait for it....

The literal definition of sheet music for alto sax with no finger placement charts.....huh.

You seem to not have noticed that, OR.....you are in denial because everything you have posted so far is incorrect.
Yet you still think somehow whatever you've said is gospel.

FUCKING PROVE IT







dumbass.

You posted what every musician everywhere calls sheet music on a tablet, and called it a "tab", which no one else does (including all the musicians who have opined on this thread), and claimed none of us know what we're talking about but you. (And I still have no idea what all the gibberish in your last post was about). The burden of proof is on you, but I really don't care if you do or don't. Then you challenged me to "prove it" and I suggested that rather than believe me you could do a simple internet search and prove it to yourself. You refused to do it, because "Diddy", or something... I think we need to let the OP have his thread back.

In the meantime, go argue with Fender, and tell them they're dumbasses too:

How to Read Tabs

Tabs are shorthand charts that document music for instruments like guitar and bass. Learn how to read tabs so you can play riffs and chords for your favorite songs!

www.fender.com

From that article:

WHAT ARE TABS?​

Tabs, short for tablature, are shorthand charts that document music for stringed, fretted instruments like guitar and bass.

Tabs make it quick and easy to learn songs by telling you which strings to pluck and which frets to place your fingers on. If you’re familiar with guitar chord charts, they are really similar

TABS VS. SHEET MUSIC: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?​

Traditional sheet music is much more detailed than tablature. It will tell you the time signature, key signature, tempo, and dynamics. It will include the notes on bass and/or treble clefs that indicate both pitch and precise rhythm. If you know how to read music, all that detail is great.

If all of that sounds foreign to you, don’t worry. Learning a riff with sheet music requires you to be able to read music — but tabs don’t.

 

[tinker]

Good teachers know how to sneak the vitamins in with the ice cream. I had a music teacher in highschool that taught me music theory while breaking down Hendrix and Steely Dan guitar solos. I actually didn't realize it until I was able to coast through advanced music theory classes in college while others were working there butts off studying (and I wasn't a straight A student).

If your kid doesn't connect with an instrument or teacher, honestly I'd find one he did connect with. Learning music is too hard to make it work if you don't enjoy it.

Good on you for trying to help him out.

My son actually gets along fine with him as does my daughter (she is 9 and started flute this summer).

He (the teacher) acts like a dick to me because he is a whiny liberal and I own a gun shop. The kid behind the counter talks guns with me sometimes and if the teacher hears it makes passive aggressive comments. I just laugh it off usually.

 

[tinker]

No, you most certainly have not

And there is the proof, dumbass.

I intentionally did not search for ghetto ass music that ain't worth a flying fuck in a sand storm.
I won't offend my computer by typing that assholes name into it.
Shaneequah, LaShonda, Tyrone....whatever.....Diddy probably had his way with that one.

Racism too???? Dang who knew asking where to find music would anger so many.

I love the blues. MANY great black and white artists.

 

[tinker]

I've gotta admit... I have no idea what any of that means.

You claim I've disrespected you, but all I have done is point out what you are mis-stating (no name-calling, etc from me).

And that last paragraph is total gibberish. I have no idea what you're talking about. I simply suggested you search for what the word "tab" refers to in the music world, which will show you it certainly isn't what you stated. That is all. Your argument has really gone off the rails now, with trying to connect that to ghetto music, some "a-hole's name" that I never mentioned or would even know who you mean, and then a bunch of ethnic-sounding names culminating in Diddy somehow controlling it all. You've entered another dimension that I simply can't follow you into. What it has to do with anything I've said is beyond me.

Continue to call me "dumbass" all you want. I'll stick to the facts I presented, and remain unaffected by your rants.

@tinker : My apologies for my part in derailing this thread into where it has lead. At least (I think) you were able to get some good leads for what you were looking for.

I was able to get some good leads. The free tab sight honestly wasn't much help mostly because it is suited to more beginner stuff and doesn't have a big selection.

But this thread provided some leads as well as interesting perspectives. I know I am no pro musician. I make good barrels and do ok cerakote. I do know a 1,4,5 and my pentatonic scales. So at least I have that going for me

 

[W54/XM-388]

https://imslp.org/

A good place to look around and explore and such.
Free downloads are a bit clunky and sometimes not the best quality, but it will give you a good idea.