How we choose free music

What we host

• Public domain melodies and pedagogical engravings marked PD.
• CC0 School Band Class exercises (no rights reserved).
• Mutopia full multi-staff PDF scores with their original open licenses (rolled into classical & instrument packs).

What we don’t host

• Commercial method books or copyrighted arrangements.
• Bulk IMSLP dumps without edition checks.
• Paywalled “free-looking” scores.

Quality badges

• Full melody — longer monophonic tunes suitable for performance practice.
• Melody — shorter tunes still meant as songs.
• Exercise — scales, etudes, short drills.
• Full PDF score — multi-staff Mutopia PDFs (not monophonic play-along).

Demo play-along uses instrument samples for practice — not a studio recording.