About syncopate

syncopate is free public-domain music for every instrument, with a piano that plays along in your browser. It started with low brass, the instruments that get the least music; today it has music for flute, clarinet, alto sax, tenor sax, trumpet, horn, trombone, bass trombone, euphonium and tuba, and more will follow. It is made by a tuba player in Austria with more than ten years of experience.

How a piece is made

Nearly every piece starts from an old edition in the public domain. We write it out again for each instrument, in a range that instrument plays well. Most piano parts come from old accompaniments, by the composer or an arranger of the time; where none exists, we wrote our own.

Levels

Every piece has a level from 0.5 (first notes) to 5 (virtuoso), in half steps:

• 0.5–1: Beginner
• 1.5–2: Easy
• 2.5–3: Intermediate
• 3.5–4: Advanced
• 4.5–5: Expert

The level comes from the piece as it is. We don’t change notes or tempos to make a piece easier.

What’s free

Everything: the player, the PDFs of every part and score, the piano recordings, the practice tools and Stage. No accounts, no ads, nothing to buy.

Licences

• The compositions, and the notes we take from old editions, are in the public domain: free for anyone.
• Our own work (the arrangements, the parts we wrote and our PDFs) is under CC BY-NC 4.0. You may copy, print, share and change it, as long as you credit syncopate (wesyncopate.com) and don’t use it commercially.
• A few pieces use someone else’s work under CC BY 4.0; their pages name the author.

A wrong note?

Write to feedback@wesyncopate.com with the piece, the instrument and the bar. The same address for anything else: questions, ideas, or something you think shouldn’t be here.