Reflective piano and poignant strings, a collection of emotive and beautiful music perfect for cinematic storytelling. This collection of emotional piano and strings music sets the mood for emotive, sentimental and cinematic storytelling. Perfect music for film, video, documentary, drama, romance, beauty, nature and personal stories. It includes 10 tracks that come with all versions […]
Orchestral Christmas Music to Get You in the Festive Mood
2020 has been a difficult year, so this year more than ever we are all in need of some festive cheer. Why not start by listening to a selection of our Christmas orchestral music? This playlist features orchestral instrumentals of these classic Christmas carols: The Holly And The Ivy, Away In A Manger, Deck The […]
Why Can’t You Make a Song with Royalty-Free Music?
People often ask whether they can sing over a track and sell it as their own. There is a lot of incorrect information out there regarding this. This article covers the facts and the reasons that you cannot use royalty-free music, stock music or library music as your backing track. Why do people want to […]
Christmas Brass Band Music – Traditional Festive Favourites
A festive 10 minute medley of instrumental Christmas brass band music to celebrate the season. This video features seven brass band style versions of Christmas songs: “Ding Dong Merrily on High”, “Deck the Halls”, “The Holly and the Ivy”, “O Come All Ye Faithful”, “Silent Night”, “Jingle Bells” and “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”. […]
Festive Piano Music for the Christmas Holidays
To get in the festive mood, we have created a six minute compilation of some classic Christmas music, showcased in this video. It features seven solo piano versions of Christmas tracks: Jingle Bells, O Come All Ye Faithful, Deck the Halls, The Holly and the Ivy, Ding Dong Merrily on High, Jingle Bells (Light version) […]
The Result of a Green Day in the Studio
I posted a picture of my workplace on Facebook a few days ago. This is the studio that I spend many hours in and as you can see it has mood lighting, which can help to get me into the right frame of mind for making music. This was the day I finished my new corporate […]
The Cost of Singing Happy Birthday
Due to music licensing, it usually costs money to use or perform a musical work that someone owns the copyright on. The exception to this is when a piece of music is in the public domain. This is basically when the copyright expires (copyright rules differ for different parts of the world so I won’t get […]
New Children’s Nursery Rhymes & Songs
In recent times we’ve found that nursery rhymes have become popular with YouTubers who put the music to their animation in order to monetize their video. This is fine and is covered by our license and we have a page dedicated to using our music on YouTube. However, the Content ID inconvenience can frustrate those who don’t understand it, […]
Memories of Christmas Brass Banding Inspire Royalty Free Christmas Music
Much of my teenage life was spent playing the trombone in bands. I especially recall playing in public at this time of year in a variety of brass ensembles. My passion and past-time of playing music turned into composing with sequencing software and ultimately lead me to starting Media Music Now in 2005. Since then their has been […]
What is a Fair Royalty-free Music License Fee?
It’s a tricky question of judgment and fairness with no definitive answer. Getting the right balance and charging the right royalty-free music license fee can be difficult. Make it too low, you upset composers, but make it too high, you upset clients. It is competitive out there so the temptation is to create a low […]
