iSHEETMUSIC: REVOLUTIONARY APP
iSheetMusic App Revolutionizes Sheet Music for the 21st Century
Today, iSheetMusic LLC celebrates the launch of its new, free mobile app "iSheetMusic" in the iTunes App Store. iSheetMusic is changing how the world views and accesses sheet music, giving it the facelift its been waiting for since the advent of print. Abandoning the traditional model of notes on a page - or its digital counterpart the .pdf, which still ultimately looks and feels like a piece of paper - iSheetMusic reimagines music for mobile viewing, where the music is rendered in a way that is customizable for each user and each screen. iSheetMusic lets musicians carry their sheet music in their iPhone, iPad and Touch where it can be accessed in seconds.
Check out the app here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/isheetmusic/id432738435?ls=1&mt=8
Vast Music Libaries
iSheetMusic also offers easy, on-the-go access to the vast music libraries of Hal Leonard and Alfred Music Publishing, allowing musicians to play any song, anywhere, anytime on iPhones and iPads. iSheetMusic frees musicians from the archaic constraints of the static page, and with 98% of all sheet music sales still attributed to static, physical copies, the app stands ready to radically change the presence of digital sheet music in today's marketplace.
iSheetMusic comes pre-equipped with a collection of public domain songs, and will launch with an ever-expanding catalog of 10,000 songs, expected to reach 30-40,000 by the end of the year. This unparalleled access comes through partnerships with two of the world’s largest sheet music publishers, Hal Leonard, Inc and Alfred Music Publishing. Starting at 99 cents per song or $2.99 per pre-selected bundle of five, users can purchase additional copyrighted songs directly from iSheetMusic.com, or from within the app, and instantly download a fully dynamic display of the song's digital sheet music. With its built-in metronome, iSheetMusic counts in the song, keeps the beat, and automatically turns pages so users can simply focus on playing the music they love. The display also allows users to rotate, pinch and zoom for optimum viewing.
Inspiration
Co-founder Matt Mostad was inspired to create iSheetMusic by a time immemorial campfire sing-along. "Three of us said we could play and we started to pass the guitar around with the group singing," he explains. "Unfortunately, among the three of us, we could only manage to remember six songs. We had a group of people willing to sing into the wee hours and three reasonably good guitar players, but without sheet music our experience wasn't what it could have been." Mostad sensed an opportunity: to create an app that takes the communal experience of music and makes it more portable and more dynamic than ever before. In addition to being a hobbyist musician, Mostad also has a strong background in start-up expertise and teamed with Matthew Sutton to form iSheetMusic, LLC.
Matthew Sutton was the perfect choice to help Mostad realize iSheetMusic. Sutton’s decades-long experience starting and running businesses in the music and tech fields gave him the background to direct and design the development of the app and provide leadership for the company. Together, the duo's synergy in technological expertise and product management supports iSheetMusic LLC's mission of "letting people play any song, anytime, anywhere."
“As we’ve built and tested iSheetMusic, I’ve been reminded of how important making music is to so many people,” commented Sutton. “iSheetMusic has the power to help more people play more music.”
Stay tuned for more new features, developments, and announcements from
iSheetMusic coming in 2011.
http://www.isheetmusic.net
http://shorefire.com/clients/isheetmusic
About iSheetMusic, LLC
iSheetMusic, LLC was founded in 2010 by technology entrepreneurs Matt Mostad and Matthew Sutton. It is the world's first fully dynamic mobile sheet music app, setting the industry standard for print music in the 21st century. With unparalleled access to a catalog of tens of thousands of songs, iSheetMusic is sheet music, perfected. Any song. Anytime. Anywhere.
For more information about iSheetMusic, please contact Elizabeth Lutz (elutz@shorefire.com), David McTiernan (dmctiernan@shorefire.com), or Rebecca Shapiro (rshapiro@shorefire.com) at Shore Fire Media, 718.522.7171.
iSheetMusic Launches With Free Starter Set, Bundles Available for Every
Taste
- Michael Jackson, Radiohead, Folk Rock, others start at $2.99
Every download of iSheetMusic comes with the following free public domain
songs:
iPad:
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Amazing Grace
Danny Boy
Mazurka Op. 6 No. 1
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
The Entertainer
This Little Light of Mine
Registering on www.iSheetMusic.net allows users access to another free set of public domain selections. Additional song bundles available to purchase at launch include:
AC/DC and Aerosmith
The Bee Gees
Bruce Springsteen
Carrie Underwood
Celine Dion
The Eagles
Eric Clapton
Garth Brooks
Green Day
James Taylor
John Denver
Lady Antebellum
Michael Jackson
Nickelback
Pink Floyd
Stay tuned for more new features, developments, and announcements from iSheetMusic coming in 2011.
http://www.isheetmusic.net
http://shorefire.com/clients/isheetmusic
About iSheetMusic, LLC
iSheetMusic, LLC was founded in 2010 by technology entrepreneurs Matt Mostad
iPhone:
Amazing Grace
Danny Boy
Go Tell it On the Mountain
Simple Gifts
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
This Little Light of Mine
The Rolling Stones
Folk/Rock (Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, more)
Standards (Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, more)
Country (Willie Nelson, Alabama, more)
Classic Rock (Fleetwood Mac, America, more)
Alternative Rock (Green Day, Radiohead, more)
70s/80s/90s (Bon Jovi, U2, more)
Adult Contemporary (Elton John, Tom Petty, more)
About iSheetMusic, LLC
iSheetMusic, LLC was founded in 2010 by technology entrepreneurs Matt Mostad and Matthew Sutton. It is the world's first fully dynamic mobile sheet music app, setting the industry standard for print music in the 21st century. With unparalleled access to a catalog of tens of thousands of songs, iSheetMusic is sheet music, perfected. Any song. Anytime. Anywhere.
For more information about iSheetMusic, please contact Elizabeth Lutz
(elutz@shorefire.com), David McTiernan (dmctiernan@shorefire.com), or
Rebecca Shapiro (rshapiro@shorefire.com) at Shore Fire Media, 718.522.7171.