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If you the kind that just can?t stop yourself from playing along with the likes of Aerosmith and Lenny Kravitz, your waiting days…
If you the kind that just can?t stop yourself from playing along with the likes of Aerosmith and Lenny Kravitz, your waiting days are over. You?ll soon have access to EMI Music Publishing’s sheet music library online. Net4Music will post 1,000 titles on its site by the end of April, and then will add 10,000 songs each month until 100,000 songs are posted. It?s the first time a major label has taken steps to have its entire catalog encoded and sold in digital format. ?It’s tough to find a music store that sells sheet music,? says Martin Bandier, CEO of EMI Publishing. ?Now all you have to do is have a computer terminal.? Net4Music will offer single songs for $3.95 per copy, but the downloads will feature encryption that limits the number of printouts that can be made. Francois DuLiege, CEO of Net4Music, said his encryption system will not discourage consumers. ?You will pay less for five copies of digital sheet music than you would for one copy of sheet music if you went to a retail store,? he said. ?Most songs in retail stores don’t sell single sets of music, so you have to purchase the whole package. This, I believe, is much easier for consumers.? Bandier believes the Net4Music deal will expand demand for EMI content. We at ninfo are just worried that the move will vastly increase the amount of terrible guitar music being reproduced in bedrooms across the globe.