Good Website Vs Bad Website

 Here we have Free-Scores.com which is a free sheet music website that allegedly allows you to open hundreds of music libraries for free. Upon further inspection, the website only allows you to access about twenty five of the free scores without watching video ads. This would have been something I could deal with if there wasn’t a pop up ad covering the entire page every 5 seconds. The functionality of the website lacks smoothness, there’s 3 different options to get to the same page and when you get there it just displays more ads. So in addition to being hard to access and pumped full of ads, the website is just hard to use and navigate, especially for someone who has never tried to look up sheet music before. They also claim to have free notation software but I was unable to find notation or scoring options anywhere on their website.





Now we have MuseScore, a free and easy to use online notation software that allows you to access thousands of online sheet music libraries for that same free price. The homepage is easy to navigate and once you make an account, the home page is music curated to your instrument or interests with no ads! Not only does MuseScore deliver on it’s promise of notation software but it also walks you through scoring and allows you to teach yourself. MuseScore follows the 3 click-rule and allows you to contact support within the click of a button.



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