Free LDS Sheet Music

My life has been so blessed by free LDS sheet music. Sally DeFord is the reigning queen of the genre. Her work, because it is free and because it is very good, is becoming a staple of ward choirs wherever I look. I totally love her Easter cantata from last year. It is amazing and I feel so blessed that she is in a position to share her talents with the Church for free.

Last Sunday I was asked to perform a musical number. I decided to play an arrangement of Praise to the Man. The arrangement by Craig Petrie is so much fun. Craig doesn't seem to be as popular as Sally DeFord for some reason. Perhaps it is because he doesn't have as much music up, but he's been online for a long time too. I really love his music and I have several of his pieces that I play regularly. This arrangement of Praise to the Man is intended for a really good choir to sing, but the piano part is rich enough that it served well as a piano solo. I just announced the order of the verses (1, 4, 2, 3) for those that wanted to follow along in their hymnal. I thought it went very well in spite of my weakness as a piano player.

I debated between playing that piece and a piece I just found recently by Aaron Waite. Aaron's arrangements have copyrights from a couple of years ago, but I'm not sure how long he's been giving his music away on the internet. I actually found his site when I did a Google search to pull up Craig Petrie's site. Aaron had purchased a sponsored link. That's an ambitious, if possibly expensive, way to help people discover you.

Aaron's arrangements are a lot like the way I improvise when I'm playing from a regular hymn book. That makes them pretty easy for me to play. Of all the pieces from his site that I've tried, my favorite is I Believe in Christ.

Update August 2012
There are so many other great sites out there and since this post continues to get traffic, I thought it worth highlighting them, including those mentioned in the comments below.

• Free LDS Sheet Music
• Look at this phenomenal index! This is the site I'd wished I'd created, but now someone else has so that I don't have to! They link to lots of individual site, including music published on the Church web site. 
• Andrew Hawryluk
• We've used some of his Christmas music in our ward choir
• Joan Sowards
• There is a lot here. The first one I tried I really have fallen in love with. It is an arrangement of O My Father with melodies from two different composers mixed together. It really adds a fun twist to this favorite.
• LDS Music Now
• They mostly have stuff for sale, but you can sign up for their newsletter which will tell you when they have new free sheet music or MP3 files available. 
• Ashley Hall Music
• I haven't tried any of these yet.
• Garrett Breeze
• He had a bunch of links on his site that helped me expand this list. Thanks! His music has been used in a lot of BYU productions, but there isn't much focus on simple piano arrangements which is what I'm usually after. The samples sound awesome.
• Jason Tonioli
• These solo piano hymn arrangements are gorgeous. He has a few of his songs available for free download. Be sure to check out We Thank Thee O God For a Prophet which he wrote as a tribute to President Hinckley and which I really enjoy playing. 
• CompleteLee Music
• I haven't tried any of the music here. I was going to try today, but I didn't want to fuss with a shopping cart to download them, even though there is free stuff there. Lots of music for kids and helping them memorize scriptures!
• Faithsong Music
• I don't know why I haven't tried any of these. I've just printed a few of them out that looked really promising. 
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