Relaxed Acoustic Grooves by Composer David Bradstreet
Here’s a bunch of new acoustic grooving tracks fresh from Canada’s David Bradstreet.
Stereo delayed psaltry, synth percussion, string pad, delayed percussion groove.
KEYWORDS:percussion groove
Electric guitar picked, bass, acoustic guitar strum, strings.
KEYWORDS:pensive Strat
Solo acoustic guitar, slow bluesy strum feel, sparse ending soft.
KEYWORDS:slow bluesy acoustic
Electric piano, piano, drums, bass, relaxed groove, strings.
KEYWORDS:relaxed
Piano, string bass, soft acoustic guitar strums, strings.
KEYWORDS:melodic piano theme
Percussion, flute, bass, acoustic guitar, xylophone.
KEYWORDS:happy worldy groove
Electric piano, drums, bass, trumpet melody, soft groove, acoustic guitar strum.
KEYWORDS:slow groove trumpet
Electric piano, percussion, marktree, bass, drums, xylophone, good groove.
KEYWORDS:medium groove, solid
Jazzy acoustic guitar groove, string bass, electric piano, soft jazzy drums.
KEYWORDS:jazzy acoustic
Flutes, percussion, psaltry, bass, pan flute, bells, koto, harp, marktree, pad
KEYWORDS:world music vibe
Psaltry, bass, synth pad, electric piano, drums, percussion, rainstick
KEYWORDS:medium groove
Electric guitar, piano, bass, drums, acoustic guitar strums, synth percussion.
KEYWORDS:slow, groove piano
Acoustic guitar strums, breathy synth pad, bass, drums, percussion.
KEYWORDS:relaxed groove
Electric piano, knees percussion, acoustic guitar, bass, drums.
KEYWORDS:knees, happy groove
Strings, piano, strong groove, bass, drums, strong build, very melodic, heroic.
KEYWORDS:heroic
Acoustic guitar strum, piano, handdrums, bass, drums.
KEYWORDS:lively groove
Piano, acoustic guitar, fretless bass, sax melody. 1:47
KEYWORDS:relaxed groove
Electric piano, bass, drums, ac guitar strum, strings, acoustic lead.
KEYWORDS:soft relaxed groove
Acoustic guitar, electric guitar rhythm and solo, bass, drums, shots at end.
KEYWORDS:bluesy shuffle
Acoustic guitar, piano, percussion, bass, electric guitar melody, drums
KEYWORDS:uplifting
Synth pad, piano, percussion, bass, flutes, rain stick
KEYWORDS:mysterious
Electric guitar lead, electric piano, bass, drums
KEYWORDS:edgy
Uptempo, piano, drums, bass, hammered acoustic guitar.
KEYWORDS:uptempo piano
Solo acoustic guitar, finger picked, pedalled low string.
KEYWORDS:nice acoustic groove
Acoustic steel and nylon guitars, soft percussion, synth pad.
KEYWORDS:melodic
Kalimba, electric guitar, flutes, strings, bass, percussion, drums.
KEYWORDS:kalimba, worldy
Acoustic guitar 4ths/chorused, soft percussion, bass.
KEYWORDS:pensive guitars
Acoustic guitar harmonics, electric solo, percussion, strings.
KEYWORDS:harmonics, mildly dark
Acoustic guitars, bass, 12 string, drums brushes, percussion.
KEYWORDS:lively acoustic
Solo acoustic guitar solo, soft wistful feel.
KEYWORDS:wistful guitar
Nylon string guitar, celli, strings, string bass, heartbeat.
KEYWORDS:strong melodic theme
Solo acoustic guitar
KEYWORDS:lively strum groove
Electric guitar strum, drums, hand drums, bass, electric guitars.
KEYWORDS:travelling feel
Solo acoustic guitar, pretty picked, rubatto, bluesy ending.
KEYWORDS:solo acoustic guitar
Acoustic 12 string strum, bass, percussion, drums, strings, melodic electric solo.
KEYWORDS:nice relaxed groove
Solo acoustic guitar, big strum, relaxed groove
KEYWORDS:lively strum groove
Acoustic guitar with percusion, soft, relaxing.
KEYWORDS:relaxed acoustic
Choosing Music For A Documentary Film
Documentary Films have a different process than a fictional narrative. Most of the time, the filmmaker has a story outline they are trying to tell, but as shooting commences, life happens! Unexpected events arise and what was going to be the dramatic climax is eclipsed by something more interesting or unusual.
To use music to score the film, you can hire a composer to start developing a library of musical themes for the story. This is something I’ve done several times and it works quite well. Because of the fluid nature of documentaries, you can provide the only constant to the whole process which is a consistent emotional tone with the music. Documentaries come together in the editing process and by having a library of thought out music to tell this story is extremely helpful.
You can also do this by carefully selecting similar pieces of music in a production music library like 300 Monks. Sometimes you can get great results by using several different pieces by the same composer or even different sections of the same piece. By the way, you can tell if a piece is by the same composer by the visual icon which are assigned to each composer.
You can also wait until a rough edit of the picture is done and then score the piece with a composer or by choosing from our music library.
Ways to Use Music In a Documentary
- Create a memorable theme that becomes the audio mnenomic and branding for the film. This is what every television series and commercial tries to do, why not you?
- Create musical themes for characters to unite the storytelling
- Create musical themes for sections of the story
- Background emotional shading – music is pure emotion and can often lead the audience to a heightened feeling that was impossible without it
- Foreshadowing of something to come
- To unite a montage of pictures, video
- Covering up the sound of bad production audio
- Masking location audio which you have no rights to, such as the radio is on in the background
- Ironic or strange juxtapositions – You can do what Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese and Cameron Crowe famously do, put music emotionally is the opposite of what we would expect.
Here’s a video that goes over some of the basics of music for a documentary. He forgot to mention that you can license music through a website like ours for affordable and legal clearance.
Minimalist piano & strings cre…
Minimalist piano & strings create perfect cinematic mood. http://ht.ly/5ELc1 #cinematicmusic #moodmusic #drama
Moody dark piano evocative of …
Moody dark piano evocative of Satie and Debussy. #moodypiano #solopiano #backgroundmusic http://ht.ly/5Dw8L
Beautiful guitar oriented post…
Beautiful guitar oriented post-rock ambient like Sigur Ros or Exposions in the Sky. http://ht.ly/5ClTJ #MusicForCreatives #SigurRos #ambient