Here you will find an ever growing database of song and solo transcriptions, chord charts and arrangements of contemporary and traditional music. Although this site was created with jazz in mind, all styles are welcome and uploading transcriptions is highly encouraged, no matter what genre or time period the selection belongs to.

Mind for Music is committed to the spreading of free transcriptions interpreted by musicians and music lovers to other such people for educational and personal use. All transcriptions on this site come from the hard work of individual musicians who have uploaded or otherwise sent their interpretations of these works to be shared by the world-wide music community, for the purposes of academic study, individual practice or for other personal uses. Nothing is being (or will ever be) sold on this website, but donations to keep the site running (and get more bandwidth) are always accepted (click here for more info on donations).

As of now this site is in it's infancy, but hopefully, Mind for Music will grow to be a very useful resource for the studying, working or practicing musician. All contributions are welcome and any comments, suggestions or questions are encouraged, as they will help me to make this site easier and more efficient (click here for more info). Please take the time to explore the website and check out the transcriptions! Over time, my hope is that this site will continue to expand as more and more songs are added, and more people become aware of this site's existence.

Please keep in mind that mindformusic.com is not a Tab website! Although a tablature transcription is indeed a transcription, they are specific only to the guitar (and bass guitar) and not to other instruments. This website is devoted to transcriptions from and to all instruments; so guitar players can learn a saxophone head, or vice versa. That said, all other forms of transcriptions are acceptable here; those include: lead sheets, chord charts, transcribed solos or heads and even full arrangements of any song, original or otherwise.

File types will vary from song to song but the following formats for transcriptions are preferred: pdf, jpg (or gif), finale files (.mus), sibelius files (.sib) and .doc files (as long as they're laid out correctly). Of course, not everyone has access to a computer with either finale or sibelius so if you want your transcription to reach the most amount of people possible, convert it to a pdf (click here for more information about file conversion). However if you do this, I would suggest uploading both the original program file for those who have it, as well as the converted pdf, as finale and Sibelius users may want to use the playback features in their programs to aid in the learning process. Also, Finale and Sibelius both offer free downloads of both Finale Notepad and Sibelius Scorch respectively, these are programs that will allow you to play and view files created on these programs.

Original compositions and arrangements are definitely welcome! Mind for Music claims no copyrights on any of the music submitted or uploaded, and all rights of a work remain with the original producer (s) of the work or with the legal copyright holder as per international copyright law. However, by submitting a work here you are agreeing to allow your work to be downloaded and shared by the world-wide music community. These works are not to be used to make profit in any way, and in any case involving the piracy for profit of a users original work, all legal rights remain with the copyright holder who may prosecute the offender to the full extent of the law.

Thanks again and enjoy the music!
-Steve Frise