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5 Completely Free Programs every musician must have

I must admit that one of my favourite hobbies and ways to spend my time while I am online is checking out and trying new pieces of software due to the practicality we can find nowadays, here is a list I have compiled with great software that you can download just for free, while you may be music related and interested in the filed , you may not use any computer at all, that’s fine, but you must be a rare case then, a tuner, a metronome and some sheet music tools and an audio editor if you are into home recording are perfect tools for anyone who enjoys playing music out of an instrument.

• 1 Weird metronome

As the name suggests, it’s a weird metronome, well, it’s not weird at all, in fact it’s so functional and simple, first you can customize the sounds of the beat and sub-beats, but its best feature is that you can enter virtually any time meter and tempo and play any length of measure you want, it comes with pre-defined sounds, unlike most commercial metronome which only allow you to have simple measure with disabled functions. You can grab it and try here http://www.pinkandaint.com/weirdmet.zip or check out the web of the author http://www.pinkandaint.com/weirdmet.shtml

• 2 Musescore

Free composition and notation software.I completely fell in love with this app the first time, why? because it can do exactly the same than other programs and you don’t have to pay a penny, simple. One of the best feature I like is that it exports to Pdf , supports XML format , it’s friendly to use once you run for a few times. http://musescore.org/download

• 3 Audacity

This is an audio editor, well-know for its easy use and functionality which takes minimum resources out of you CPU, it records and edits wave files and can export to mp3, while there are other expensive alternatives , sure abit more professional, if you just use it to record clips, projects and edit basic tracks, then this is just for you. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

• 4 Functional ear trainer basic

Ear training Software.I stumbled upon this little program by reading this interesting article http://www.advancingmusician.com/hear-all-12-chromatic-notes/ some days ago and I just can say it’s excellent, if you want to take your musicianship to a decent level, then you should check this out, it’s not a commercial piece of junk, in fact it’s completely free and unlike most ear training software it’s not based on a game of simply guessing random notes but rather have a theory and scientific explanation behind, with a bit of practice in weeks you will develop  a really good ear without much hassle. http://www.miles.be/FET_Basic_Setup.exe grab it here or go to the web homepage http://www.miles.be/fet.html

• 5 GNU Solfege

Ear training Software. Another ear training software under the licence of gnu software, well known , and pretty functional, lots of features and easy to use, it’s also an excellent to learn sight reading and solfege if you are still in that stage. Grab it here: http://www.solfege.org/Solfege/Download

If you know any other little simple app which can do the job a piece of paid software can do, don’t doubt in letting us know, use the comment section below to share, many thanks

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