Sheet Music Covers for Downloaded Music

Now that we have digital sheet music downloads so readily available, the music we want is at our fingertips 24/7. It's great! But I miss one thing: those cool sheet music covers.

When I was a kid, I loved sheet music. And the art on the cover mattered to me! Check out some of my old faves:

You can still get traditional sheet music with spiffy covers at your local music store, but when you download from sites like musicnotes.com, you don't get art. Sometimes I make covers for sheet music if a student is really into it, or if it's a first experience with pop downloads. Here's a cover a student and I did today. We decided to use her own picture as well as the artist's and some piano clipart. The font for the title is called "Bleeding Cowboys." Can't get cooler than that, right?

Cover for "Keep Breathing" by Ingrid Michaelson

Another student worked on a Paramore song that we found on the Internet. She LOVED that song. So, obviously, it needed an amazing cover:

Cover for "The Only Exception" by Paramore

One of the fonts I used on this one was actually called "The Only Exception," which is the title of the song. Ha!

Anyway, I think kids miss out sometimes when they don't have interesting covers for their sheet music. They can make their own, of course, and it adds an element of interest and fun...the importance of which should not be overlooked!