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Step by step, I provide this website with scores that could be useful to teachers and musicians. I select the sheets music among those I initially created for my students, and shape them into their final versions using LilyPond.

Here’s what I have at heart/here are my objectives:

  • Create efficient scores that are easy to understand and pleasant to the eye,
  • List them in an adapted search engine,
  • Share them for free.

I wanted to test what could be constructed in a system based on gift and counter-gift, rather than a commercial one. I thought through every aspect of the project to that end, from the creation of the scores, the fonts, the visuals process, the links to the videos, to the operating system of my computer. These reflections have led to convincing results, as well as a choice to concede to the YouTube system that enables the listening of the tracks while you are still on the website.

After ten years of tests and learning, the website was inaugurated in April 2026. Through this adventure, I can confirm that mutualism definitely exists on the internet. It is bubbling and efficient.

On Drumscore.net, you will find free software. They were developed by open communities that can help you learn how to use them, out of mutual assistance spirit. That is the help I received and that is why, in return, my scores are free too.

Experiences like mine show – in so many fields – the benefits of a non-commercial circulation of knowledge. Some people give personal time and energy with no commercial purposes, but they draw undeniable individual and collective advantages.

Drumscore.net is a contribution to this virtuous circle. It also seeks to take part in the enrichment of cultural and educational public policies.

Thomas Ballarini
State-registered Diploma in Musiques Actuelles Amplifiées
Tenured teacher at the Conservatoire de Claye-Souilly

France, April 2026