Production Music: Tips for Using Our Store
Here’s some tips for using our Production Music Online Store. We’ve heard that some of you haven’t noticed our NEW FEATURE of FREE DOWNLOADS of COMP FILES.
If you look right under the title of any song or track in the production music library, there’s a link called Download Music Preview. This will allow you to download any of our music files (with audio watermark) and insert it into your presentation, or video or film or website –so you can get your client approval (or your significant other!)
This makes life much easier so you don’t have to guess whether the timing is right or if it works well to your project. Then, when all is worked out, and the client has said “You are a Creative Genius!”
you can come back and purchase the clean version, insert it and voila, you’re done.
Here’s some handy steps:
- Search or Browse for the music based on genre, or a band or artist you like, or even by the mood of the music
- Listen to the preview music tracks
- Download the associated music preview file for comping into your design or video edit
- Show it to your client or partners and get their approval.
- Come back here and search by typing in the name of the track or the product ID (same as the file name of the music preview file)
- License and Download
Here’s a handy graphic that says a thousand words.
Great Acoustic Guitar Tracks – Royalty Free Music
Just added 7 great tracks from Nicky Needle. We are so fortunate to have so many great Acoustic and Americana options in our royalty free music library.
Check them out:
 Composer: Nicky Needle Beautiful acoustic guitar solo. Lullaby-like and comforting. Price: $34.95 |
Great Music Ideas for Podcasts
Having a piece of background music for your podcast helps you to communicate professionalism and give you another way of showing your brand. Music has the ability to give the feel of your brand rather than just the logo.
Here’s 20 great ideas for great music to use in your podcast openers and stings.
- Big Dipper - Conservative. Upbeat, melodic piano instrumental with electronic elements that give it a mystical and spacey sound. By Robert Wayne Johnson
- Biker Punks – In Your Face. Fast, rocking, punk, guitars with great upbeat hooks. Perfect for a sports or high energy corporate presentation. By Robert Wayne Johnson
- Explodopop – Energetic. Great drums on an alt rocking track. By Tom Curiano.
- High Velocity – Technology. Upbeat yet urgent, pulsing, electronic orchestral. Exciting for a chase scene without the dark tinge of so many electronica pieces. Maybe useful for a commercial – think Jason Bourne chasing someone whilst wearing his $100,000 watch. By Doug Sparling.
- New Dawn – A Powerful and inspiring rock track with layered guitars that create a passionate feel. Great for many different projects. By Dan Phillipson.
- An Upbeat Country Diddy – Americana, Down Home, Backyard, Country Living, Lifestyle. A great acoustic country hoedown. Short and sweet and perfect for a television intro, podcast intro music or website. By Mike Stidolph.
- American Reject – Quirky, modern pop rock that starts with a light and humorous vibe that leads into a big, rocking chorus. By Robert Wayne Johnson.
- Best Years of Our Lives – Instrumental. Bouncy, optimistic, bright, happy mellow rock with piano. Folky, fun and perfect for a commercial.
- Happy Cars - Bouncy! I always thought this would be great for a weather/traffic report or a return from the commercial sting. By Rob Hann.
- Hoodoo Barbecue. Fun and retro. Rootsy, old time, guitar driven rock ‘n roll. Sounds like Bo Diddley. By Robert Wayne Johnson.
- Amazon Hunt 1 – Looking for a jungle motif? The next Steve Irwin? Aggressive, Energetic, Ritual and Sacral For Film and TV Ethno drums , jungle voices , flutes
- Ingka – Jazzy and bluesy. Swinging, popping and grooving. Composer: Andrew Ingkavet
- Phi – Technology. An upbeat tempo with a distinctly technical sound mixed with good old bluesy funk on fender rhodes, acoustic bass and some hot loops.
- Signal 8 – Technology and Pharmaceuticals. Smooth, organic yet pointy. This piece may work well for pharmaceutical, technology and other business presentations.
- Bitstream – Technology, Finance. Sounds like Moby.
- Crazy Techno - Technology, Entertainment. Like the title says. Upbeat!
- I Drink The Sunshine – Technology, Art, Entertainment. Very cool.
- Current Affairs - Technology, News, Science, Entertainment.
- Dinner With Dave - Retro, Funny, Old Fashioned, Silent Film, Newsreel. This is a great solo piano piece.
- Macondo. Latino. Energetic, bouncy, short, horns with percussion.
And you can always just search royalty free music using keywords here.
5 rocking punk royalty free music tracks to stir up the board room
Wake up the board room and get your ideas amplified with a soundtrack for your Powerpoint or Keynote presentation. These 5 tracks all by Robert Wayne Johnson are perfect.
Fuzz Attack - Energetic and great in your face rock track. Sounds like Blur’s song 2.
Eat My Dust - Fast and furious rock. Sounds like the Offspring, Motorhead, Sum 41, Green Day, Blink-182 etc. Nascar, extreme sports, action-packed determination. Rock Music, Speed Metal.
Bitter Pill - Modern rock track with lots of attitude, emotion and teen angst.
Off The Hook - Melody meets mayhem in this fast and intense pop punk track. Perfect music for a chase scene, big road action scene or any production that needs a shot of adrenalin. Sounds like Green Day, Blink 182, The Buzzcocks etc.
Biker Punks - Fast, rocking, punk, guitars with great upbeat hooks. Perfect for a sports or high energy corporate presentation..
And lots more where these came from – Music for Sports Themes, Punk Rock, Rock and Heavy Metal and the entire Robert Wayne Johnson catalog.
Need to use these music tracks on the company website too? How about on YouTube? Or on a corporate sales DVD? We got that covered too – just select the usage at the bottom of each track description.
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The Right To Profit From Your Ideas
Everything is Intellectual Property
All around you it’s there. Physical objects, systems, organizations, processes, buildings, machines – all manifested from ideas. And the originators of these ideas are blessed with profits, security, fame, glory, awards and a golden retirement.
That’s the ideal at least. For those who create things that are less than concrete, it gets tricky.
I was reading this morning’s NY Times and came across this article about inventors and auctions. The main focus of the article was about the difficulties of the little guys to compete with the big guns. Sounds just like the music business! There was also brief mention of a new company called Rational Patent Exchange.
“The long-term vision at Rational is to become a marketplace or clearinghouse, perhaps the way ASCAP is for copyrighted music, collecting fees and distributing payments to artists.” says Randy Komisar, a partner at venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Whoa. That’s a big idea. The article also talks about how big guns can also buy up competing patents as a defensive mechanism. This too sounds familiar - like the Hollywood producers who option a screenplay and shelve it for years so they can bring out their own pet project that bears an eerily similar plot to yours!
“The goal is to be a place where the patent-holder is fairly compensated [hmm, just like the music biz?] but the corporate users have access to technology with minimal transaction costs. It has the potential to make innovation more efficient and less risky for both sides.”
I’m all for innovation and friction-less commerce and heartily applaud this idea. In fact, I would love to see this idea applied elsewhere as well. How about visual designs? Logos? Animations? But here’s the caveat. The concentration of power in a new organization may not actually help ALL the “little guys.”
Even though composers/ writers have 3 performing rights organizations in the USA (ASCAP, BMI & SESAC), collecting performance royalties and distributing them to its members – how this done is far from transparent. In any organization there’s a concentration of power at the top and the “members” have very little say over how much or how little their royalties should be. How any clearinghouse organization distributes its funds needs to be transparent. For example, commercial soundtrack composers, have little or no representation even though our music is used for television commercials, web spots and more. In my experience as a BMI member, I have to jump through multiple layers of bureaucracy to ensure I get paid for performance royalties on music composed specifically for use in a commercial. There are many that just give up. And yet, the clearinghouse organizations go out and routinely collect multi-million dollar fees for blanket usage of ALL the music in their catalogs. They’re supposedly looking out for their members, but try calling any of these organizations unless you already have a hit record. At ASCAP, I’ve heard that the pay-rate on underscore is much less than for music with lyrics. Why would that make sense if the organizations licensing the music pay one blanket rate?
I’m not asking for a government bureaucracy, but some kind of decency/moral standards? As we continue to move to a society of “knowledge workers” (thanks Peter Drucker) intellectual property is increasingly what we ALL do.