Online Copywriting

When it comes time to wrap your video production and add the soundtrack, you have three different options. The first is that you can try to get in contact with Sony BMG and license a popular song for thousands of dollars, and then spend hundreds more on royalty fees every single time you post the video somewhere else online or try to sell it on DVD. Second, you can spend roughly the same amount hiring a group of studio musicians, and then rent out a studio, and then learn how to produce music in a studio, and then keep working with them until you get what you’re after, and then still have to pay royalties to the musicians. Lastly, you can spend a few bucks flat on library production music, and then you can have a song that is legally yours to use wherever you want, however you want to use it.

You can also use public domain music, but this is a tricky way to go. It’s difficult enough finding out which songs are in the public domain in the first place, and if they’re not, you can get sued for more than it would ever cost to license any song. Luckily, Youtube usually just mutes the audio in your video before anyone can press charges, but do you really want to risk your video getting muted? That is, if Youtube doesn’t just take your video down altogether.

With all that in mind, here’s how to go about finding great music for your production:

Search it
Google it up and see what you can find. These music sources can be found all over the internet as there are literally thousands of undiscovered artists trying to just make a few bucks on their music. They’re not greedy, and the cost of their songs are little more than a token offering with the real reward being that their music is featured in a hot viral video (hopefully. That’s up to you).

Hear it
Most of these musicians will provide you with samples of every song before you buy it. Obviously, you want to listen to all of these songs and just pay for the one you like the best. You want music that’s well produced, that sounds good, and of course, music that actually fits what you’re trying to do in your video production.

Keep Your Options Open
Even if you find exactly the kind of music you’re looking for, you might find something that’s not exactly what you were looking for, but which actually fits even better. Watch a movie by Martin Scorsese or Quentin Tarantino and take note of how they use music. For example, the Layla scene in Goodfellas. Some of the best music moments in film are the ones where “the wrong song” is used in a certain way that really alters the meaning and feel of the scene. So be imaginative and see if you can use music counter-intuitively to great effect.

The 5 Alarm library production music brings you the latest music that’s out in the market today.