Where can you find great music to use
in your youtube gaming videos that is
completely free to use even if you want
to monetize it with adverts
that's what we're going to be talking
about in this video.
I'm Pete, from the
Gaming Careers YouTube channel where we have
videos explaining everything you need to
do to grow your gaming passion into a
profession and today I'm gonna be
talking you through 10 websites where you
can get royalty free music for your videos.
First, it's worth explaining a little bit about
what royalty-free and copyright-free
really mean. Now I'm hoping the most of you
know you can't just take a song from
your iTunes library something from the
top ten put into your video and upload
it to YouTube. What will happen is YouTube's
clever algorithm will scan it. It's
called content ID, it will scan your
video for any copyright infringement and
if it matches with something in its
database then it will mark your video.
Once your video has been marked the
copyright owners, not YouTube, but the
copyright owners will be able to decide
what they want to do with your video and
it comes down to a choice of four
different things. One, they could mute
your video and then you just have a
video without any audio on at all. Two,
they could block your video and then it
wouldn't be available anywhere on
YouTube and a strike would be added to
your account, if you get multiple of
these strikes than YouTube can shut down
your account and all videos on it.
Three they could monetize the video, now
it doesn't matter how much work you put
into the video, you could have had fancy
graphics and 3D effects and all this
kind of stuff, but if you've used their track
they can choose to monetize the video,
so the adverts that run on that video, the
money goes to them and not to you, not
ideal. Four, they can track your video,
which basically means that they can look
at all the statistics for your video and
then a later date decide to implement
one of the other three restrictions. Now
I know what you thinking none of those
options sound ideal at all which is
exactly why we need to be using
royalty-free or copyright free music in
all of your videos. Now my last bit of
advice just before we get on to the list
of the 10 places where you can get this
music from, is that you have to be a
little bit careful about where you're
going to get the music from just purely
because technically the creator of the
music still holds the copyright license
and they can change their opinion as to
what they allow
for that music to be used on whenever they
like. So the 10 that I'm going to give you today
are trusted websites and trusted youtube
channels.
I've used music from all 10 sources and
that's why I feel comfortable
recommending it to you. It is worth noting
here I'm not a lawyer and it is always
worth doing your own research to make
sure that the track that you're going to
be using is free for you to use and to
advertise on, if you're ever in doubt err
on the side of caution and just find
another track. Now the 10 different
websites that I'm going to be talking to you
about fall into three main categories,
firstly there's free music as in you can
get it for free and use it.
The second is individual purchases so
you find a track that you want to use in
a video and you purchase a license just
for that track. And the third is a
subscription-based service where you pay
a monthly fee and you can use any of the
songs from the catalog as many times as
you want, I'm going to briefly talk about
each website as well as giving a little
short sample of some of the music that
they have on their website and I've got
links to every single website that I
talk about in order in the description
below, so check that out if any of these
websites take your fancy. First up is the
official YouTube audio library, this is a
free resource provided by YouTube that
you can get to if you log into your
account and click the create tab in your
dashboard. Now I know what you're
thinking,
all of this music is rubbish but that's
probably because you haven't looked
through it since it was released many
years ago. The library itself has gotten
lots bigger and legitimately has some
good tracks in there for you to find
download and use in your videos. Let's
have a listen to a random track in the
library,
this one is called "heavy by huma-huma"
Now if you haven't heard of incompetech
before, you most certainly have heard
some of their songs in some YouTubers
videos, this is another free resource and
they have a large library with music
from pretty much every genre imaginable.
I started to use them a little bit less
as I feel like I can find better music at one
of the other sites, but I go back to
them from time to time if I need
something extra specific, for example
I've used this track called "Funky Chunk"
when I need to fast forward a scene of
travelling to an event or unboxing a product.
Epidemic sound is the
subscription-based website that I was
discussing earlier. It has an absolutely
massive library, you pay a monthly
subscription fee which is currently
around £10 per month if you're in
the UK and you can use any of their music
completely royalty-free. It's also
worth noting that if you're partnered
with a separate network MCN such as
Curse, TGN or Freedom or any of the
others that you see in this list here,
you may have a free Epidemic Sound
subscription, so it's definitely worth
checking if you do. You can quite easily
browse by genre, there are absolutely
loads or even mood or energy level and
even select "find similar" if you found a
song that you like but it doesn't quite
match the one that you actually want.
One of the most advanced features on
this site, is the ability to download
individual parts of the song. So you could
download the bass or the drums or the
instrumental or the melody separately if
you want to play around and be a bit
more creative.
Let's have a quick listen to an epic
orchestral track.
Audiojungle is part of the Envato group
of sister sites, so if you've ever used
Themeforest or Videohive or one of the
other sister sites its part of the same
company. Audio Jungle has a reasonably
large selection and you pay for each
song that you want to use, they're typically
priced around $10 to $30
but they do vary. You may need to
take some of the license information
that you get on purchasing and put it
into YouTube since contact ID may find
the song and you just need to prove that
you own the correct licence. I've used
songs from Audio Jungle for loads of
different projects and I've never had
any issues. I've often gone to
Audio Jungle if I need to find some ambient
music, so let's listen to one that I've
used before.
Now the last six places to find
copyright free music that I use are all
YouTube channels that are solely
dedicated to providing royalty free
music. I've picked my favorite six channels
which also cover a wide spectrum of
genres. One of the main questions I get
on my channel is where do I get my intro
and outro music from. Argofox is the
answer. Argofox in my opinion is one of
the best YouTube channels for electronic
dance or house music. They upload music
frequently and their tracks to the
highest of standards. The genres might not be
everyone's cup of tea but if you like
that kind of music that's absolutely
loads to choose from. At the time of
recording this video they require that
you link to the YouTube page of the song
that you use so it's all very easy,
although that might change. Let's listen
to the most recent upload, "Timber by Render"
Next up we have the "audio library
no copyright music" channel and as you'll
see later in this video
these channel names don't get any better.
This channel is one of the more popular
channels on YouTube, having over
1000 videos and 200,000 subscribers
at the time of making this video. They
cover a few more genres including some
more chilled out and generally uplifting
music. I haven't used them for a little
while but listening to some of their
recent uploads they still sound very
decent. Here's one that I've got saved to use an
upcoming videos, that's called "Those Nights by DJ Quads"
Chucky music is relatively new
but rapidly growing hiphop instrumentals
channel. Instrumentals are great since
there's no lyrics so they wont clash
with your voiceover or commentary. Again
hip-hop might not be everyone's taste of
music but if it is Chucky music is
definitely a channel you want to spend an
evening sifting through. Let's listen to
the latest upload.
How have I got this far into the video and not mention
NoCopyrightSounds. NCS is a 9 million
subscriber strong YouTube channel with
uploads in various genres such as house,
dubstep, trap, and drum and bass. Their most
popular upload, "Fade by Alan Walker" has
200 million views and it honestly been
featured in so many videos now I can't
imagine anyone in the gaming world
hasn't heard it.
Another creatively named channel
"Copyright Free Music" has uploads mainly
in the dance and electronic genre. If I'm
being honest I haven't spent much time
browsing the library but from the handful of
tracks that I have heard, they seem
pretty decent and definitely worth
checking out.
Here's a snippet of their most popular
upload "Ride or Die by Jabby"
The final channel we'll look at is called
"Audio Library - Free Music" and it's
another fairly new library which covers
many different genres of music. For
example they have playlists for romantic,
inspirational and dramatic moods. As well
as playlists for classical, rock,
cinematic and dance music. So if you need
a certain genre or mood of music, here would
be a good place to start.
Let's listen to one of the more epic
feel tracks "Are You With Us by One Toller"
Hopefully with those 10 websites you'll
be able to find a track that is useful
for your video or your channel as a
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Question of the day, the question of the
day is: Where else have you found
copyright free music from, have I missed
any channels that you've used frequently?
Have you ever had any issues with
copyright infringement on YouTube. I'd love
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