Blank Sheet Music
Blank staff paper, ready to print: choose how many staves fit on the page and how tall each one is.
Blank staff paper, ready to print: choose how many staves fit on the page and how tall each one is.
Choose Blank Sheet Music from the list. It opens with the usual size already set.
Pick the paper size, the grid and the orientation. Customize holds colours, margins and more.
Download the ready PDF, or print straight from the page at 100% scale.
Everything else follows from the gap between the staff lines. A large stave — 2.5 mm or more between lines — is easy to write on in pencil and easy to read on a stand at a distance. A small one fits more music on the page but needs a fine pen and good light.
Published sheet music sits around 1.8 mm between lines. Manuscript paper for handwriting is usually more generous, which is why 2.2 mm is the default here.
Ten to twelve staves suits a single line of melody. Fewer and larger is better for teaching; more and smaller for keyboard or ensemble sketching.
Every sheet here is free, adjustable and prints at exact scale.
Engraved music is usually about 1.8 mm between lines, giving a 7.2 mm stave. Handwritten manuscript paper is normally larger — around 2.2 to 2.5 mm — because a pencil is blunter than a printing press.
Yes. Landscape gives longer staves and fewer of them, which suits sketching a long melodic line without a page turn.
Only the ones at each end of the stave, and those can be turned off. Bar lines depend on the metre, so they are left to you.
