Sheet music costs about $4 per song. But, as with audio or video files, these documents are easy to pass around online.

At Musicnotes.com, we have the piano sheet music you’re searching for. From the latest radio hits to opera and Broadway classics and through Disney essentials, we have hundreds of thousands of professional, officially licensed digital sheet music arrangements, all available for immediate digital download.

The Best Places to Buy Sheet Music Online

• Sheet Music Plus.
• musicnotes.com.
• Piano Pronto.
• Sam Ash.
• Amazon.

7 Websites to Find Free Sheet Music

• IMSLP. IMSLP is a library of public domain music.
• MUSOPEN. MUSOPEN also has a library of public domain sheet music and recordings.
• 8Notes. 8Notes site is organized by instrument and they have a everything.
• MuseScore.
• Free Scores.

So why is sheet music so expensive? Sheet music is expensive because it costs a lot of money to produce. Composing, engraving, editing, publishing, printing, shipping and selling at stores drive the cost of sheet music up. Often there must also be money left over to cover ongoing royalties, too.

It is illegal, as you do not have permission from the copyright holders or the label to publish those. You may have to pay royalties if you do choose to do this, especially if there are no previously published sheet music for the pieces you are working on.

Remove paper clips, rubber bands and other foreign objects. Repair tears and reinforce the fold with reversible heat-set tissue or Japanese paper and wheat paste. Binders provide protection for sheet music; binders with pockets will help to keep the parts together.

Selling sheet music is another way to make money from your music, and allows you to reach an audience anywhere in the world. You can start with even one composition, working on generating a steady income stream by selling it multiple times.

If you follow any prominent YouTubers, you’ve probably noticed that they take to Twitter a lot to do Q&A’s. This is a great way to market sheet music by asking your followers to Tweet you which songs they’d like to see you arrange. You can ask them to tweet you directly or by using a hashtag, for example, #AskJohnDoe.

Where to sell your music online

• Your own website.
• Online music stores.
• Bandcamp.
• Music download sites: iTunes, Google Play, Amazon.
• Streaming platforms: Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music.
• SoundCloud.
• Phase 1: Engaging your fans.
• Phase 2: Launch a crowdfunding campaign.

6 Ways to Get Paid For Your Music

1. Join a Collection Society. Every time you hear music in a lift the artist who made it is getting paid.
2. Syncs / Placements.
3. Invest in Yourself.
4. Use YouTube Content ID.
5. Create Merchandise.
6. Fandom.