what's going on everybody welcome back
to another video today we're talking
about something I easily get asked the
most out of any question that's ever
come up in my youtube channel and it is
how I find music for my videos
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alright guys so before we get into
today's video a couple of quick updates
you might want to skip through this if
you don't really care about me and what
I've been up to but the month of
December has been absolutely crazy
unfortunately I was sick for like a week
week and a half but the issue was that
my voice was just gone for a good
portion of that entire time so I
couldn't really talk I couldn't make
videos and then to follow that up just a
few days ago my main desktop of my
editing workstation just crashed on me I
had this really nasty Windows Recovery
error where when I booted the computer
up it said Windows needs to be recovered
insert the windows media installation
and I did a ton of research and I talked
to a lot of very smart people a big
shout out to Jeri aka barnacle ease if
you guys haven't seen his YouTube
channel he has almost a million
subscribers he's been doing tech videos
and tech related videos for ton of years
now definitely one of the kind of og
people I started watching way back in
the day but he helped me out and
basically just we came to the conclusion
I had to fresh install Windows I was
able to get my files backed up off of my
boot hard drive long story short it was
a mess and it took a few days to get my
workstation back up and running which
was quite a big setback now on the topic
of computers you guys might have seen in
my last vlog I picked up this guy which
is the Lenovo yoga 720 I picked up that
laptop specifically because 2018 is
looking to be a year hopefully packed
with travel which is going to be
exciting and they need something to work
mobile e so pick that guy up and a lot
of you guys are right off the back of
you
why didn't you just get a MacBook well
I've had my run around with mac books
and I'm gonna be doing a full video on
that laptop soon talking about why I
chose it why I think it's good why it's
potentially better than a MacBook in
some cases - stay tuned for that
but with that being said the topic of
today's video which is where I find my
music for my videos now everybody knows
how important music can be especially
when you're trying to make cool
cinematic videos it's easily one of the
biggest factors in how your audience or
your viewer is going to receive your
visuals more often than not when I'm
creating a cinematic sequence or I'm
creating a short film I'll actually use
a song sort of as like the bass I'll
find a track that I like and kind of
build visuals around that now not
everybody makes content this way
me personally I love finding songs and
piecing together the visual design and
what kind of a story I want to build
just based off of hearing the music now
some people don't do it this way some
people will go kind of the opposite
direction they'll have the visuals and
have the story ready to go and they'll
find a track that fits now more often
than not when you're picking a song for
a video almost everybody's gonna run
into this at least at one point and that
is copyright we've all had that struggle
of finding the perfect song somewhere we
download if we you know throw it in the
video we start editing to it we go to
upload our video and then YouTube's like
no go copyright trust me I've been in
that boat multiple times and had to
pretty much completely restructure and
re-edit a video because of that it's no
fun now the solution to that right off
the bat is royalty-free or copyright
free music no me personally I've never
really been a fan of the way
royalty-free music sounds it always just
sounds royalty-free it's just kind of
sounds clunky like it just never really
has a good flow good pacing or good
rhythm it just doesn't sound whole it
doesn't sound like a legitimate song but
for the greater part of the last year
I've been using a service called
epidemic sound it's super popular and
I'm sure you guys have heard of it and
in fact you've probably seen the link to
it down in my descriptions I think it
says the music I use in my videos
epidemic sound is a royalty-free music
service that has a massive expansive
library but here's the kicker music that
they have is actually good you guys have
heard it and tons
tons of my videos and I'm constantly
constantly getting asked what's that
song where'd you find that song where
can i download that song it's all come
from epidemic sound fun fact the song
that I use in my outro
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that is attract from epidemic sound it's
easily one of my favorite ants why it's
in almost all of my videos for the outro
song I love this service for the fact
that the music actually sounds good like
it sounds like not copyright free music
but the other really great thing is the
way they build their search engine you
could not only search for songs by genre
but you can search by mood by place by
energy tempo just all this stuff to
really dial in exactly what you're
looking for you plug all these things in
and the huge list of songs pops up you
start clicking through them and seeing
what sounds good seeing what might fit
your idea for your video and then the
cool thing is is once you find a track
that you like but maybe it's not quite
right there's a button you can click
that is find similar songs then that
will pull up an entire other list of
songs that are similar to that one that
you selected this is honestly probably
my favorite feature out of the entire
service all like randomly come across
one song and I'm like this is dope I
need more songs like this I'll click
that button and then BAM there's like 20
and then I just download them all and
then they get used in my videos the
music you guys hear in my videos from
the background music to the music I use
in my short films to the music I use in
the cinematic sequences almost all of it
comes from epidemics sound now another
question I get asked is how did you not
get copyrighted for this song a lot of
my older vlogs did have music that was a
little bit more like mainstream Duff
you'd find on iTunes so this is
something not a lot of people know about
YouTube's music policy in their
copyright policy not every song that you
use in a video is blocked for example
you can get copyrighted for a song
however it simply means you can't
monetize that video basically that I
can't make money off this video if I use
this song YouTube has something in there
creator studio called music policies
where you can basically go search for
just about any song that's out there
today you put in the name of the song
search it up and YouTube will tell you
its policy on that song if you don't
happen to find it in the music policy
list you're more than likely not going
to get copyrighted for it if you do
you're probably just going to not be
able to monetize your video the video
will become monetize
by the owner of the track now in some
cases YouTube can be a bit more strict
about the songs for example if maybe
it's like a top 100 song you might
actually have the song blocked in
certain countries which therefore you
probably shouldn't use because the audio
is going to be muted or people just
aren't going to be able to see your
video so that's something to avoid so
when people ask me how did I use this
song in my video how did I not get
copyrighted the answer is that I did get
copyrighted but it's simply that I can't
make money off the video which in
perspective I don't really make a ton
off of the monetization from my YouTube
videos in general I'm not getting
millions of views so it's not really
that big of a deal to me if the song
fits and it's just perfect sometimes
I'll just take it but the great thing is
that I don't really have to worry about
that anymore because epidemics sound it
generally has pretty much any type of
song that I'm looking for whether it's
some really slow kind of gentle piano
ballad like I used in my in my own world
short film
or if it's something that's a little bit
more blight future bass & EDM and just
loud and bright dubstep it's all there
an epidemic sound has so many options
it's seriously a service that I don't
think I would have made as many videos
or as good of videos if I didn't have in
2017 so that being said there is a link
down in the description if you guys want
to go sign up and start a 30-day free
trial after that there is a couple of
membership tiers that starts at $15 a
month if you're getting less than
500,000 views per month which i think is
going to be the majority of us and then
above that I think it goes up to 30 and
then something like a hundred dollars a
month it all kind of just depends on how
much traffic your videos are getting but
for the most of us $15 a month is a
seriously good price considering you
don't have to worry about any copyright
and there's pretty much an endless
selection of songs so if you guys have
been looking for the music that I've
been using in my videos look no further
than epidemics sound by the time you
guys are seeing this it is already into
2018 so I hope everybody had a good
holidays and I wish everybody a Happy
New Year hopefully you guys are going to
come into 2018 strong and ambitious and
create some badass shit because I'm
planning to do that myself I'm super
excited to share my journey along with
you guys so with that being said I'm
gonna go in the video here thank you so
much for watching guys really set it and
make more content 2018 is gonna be whoop
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