1.) What exactly is a musical transcription?
A musical transcription is the result of a person (usually a musician) transferring the performance of  another musician or ensemble from an audio recording or live performance on to sheet music to be used for study or to share with other musicians. Transcribing is one of the best ways to improve your musicality and grow as a musician. If you talk to any good musician they will certainly tell you about all the time they spent transcribing solos of their favorite players, and how much they benefited from doing so.

2.) Who made all these transcriptions?
Any one can submit a transcription if they feel it is accurate enough to be shared here. Most transcriptions on this site come from people all over the internet who wish to share their hard work and dedication with other like-minded musicians. As this site is still in its early life, the first transcriptions that were posted on the site were those created by myself and by fellow musicians whom I know well and play with frequently.

3.) Why aren't their tabs on your website?
Tablature is a great way to learn music for the guitar and bass guitar. Unfortunately tabs only apply to those two instruments, which leaves plenty of other instruments out in the cold when it comes to finding transcriptions. Furthermore, tabs (usually) don't contain any rhythmic or time feel indicators, which is so crucial in most form of jazz and improvised music. There are plenty of great tab website out there if you search them out, but sorry you wont find any tabs here.

4.) Is sharing transcriptions legal? Does this violate any copyright infringement laws?
According to the copyright laws in most countries, sheet music may be shared in an educational context. This is so that professors at music universities can copy music for their students (and vice versa) without having to obtain specific permissions from copyright holders. The purpose of this website is to share unofficial transcriptions for the same purposes. Copyright law and so called "fair use" regulations fall into various grey areas around the sharing of sheet music over the internet. For example, no artist can copyright an improvised solo, so while a musician might own the rights to a specific piece, they do not own the rights to the notes in their solos, which makes it ok for us to share them freely. Also, a chord progression cannot be copyrighted as no one can possibly claim ownership of something like that (maybe Metallica). However, copying a song transcription from another source and claiming it as your own does infringe on copyright law, so don't do that. If the works you submit are you own interpretations, there is no infringement on any copyright law.

5.) Who makes "official transcriptions"? How much more accurate are they than the ones on this site?
Artists seldomly have the time to publish their own transcriptions of their own works. Most of the so called "official" transcriptions you will see are done by musicians who are sanctioned by the artist (or publisher) to transcribe their work, for the purpose of distributing it for profit. The quality and accuracy of the vast majority of transcriptions on this site can easily be compared to any official transcription. If a transcription makes it to this website that is not considered by the to be accurate, it will receive negative comments and will be either removed or updated. This insures the quality of most of the music on this site. Still, I do highly support the buying of official sheet music as most of the time the artist will see some money from the sale, even though publishers receive most of the profit.

6.) I am having trouble uploading/downloading/any other possible thing.
If you are having any recurring troubles with the site, please contact me!

7.) I get taken to an error page whenever I try to download a Finale or Sibelius file.
This is a recurring problem with these types of files in certain browsers. If this is happening to you, simply right click on the link you wish to download and select "save file as". Hopefully I will be able to remedy this problem very soon (as soon as I figure out how that is).

8.) What do the abbreviations next to some of the files stand for?

Arr. -> Arranged By (this is used when the file differs or has been arranged differently from the recorded or official version).

Per. -> Performed By