- Finding music that you can legally use in your videos
is enough already, let alone trying to figure out
which websites to use, and if they're legit or not.
In this video, I'm gonna give you three free
and two paid options to find that royalty-free music
that you can put in your videos.
Don't worry, I'm not being paid or sponsored
by any company in this video.
These are websites that I use for my videos.
Let's get into it.
First, let's start with some of the free options.
At number one is YouTube's Audio Library.
You can get to it, by going into your creator studio,
then clicking where it says Create in the sidebar,
and going to Audio Library,
or you can go to
youtube.com/audiolibrary/music.
You can preview any of these songs in the browser.
You can then, download them to a computer
to use in your video-editing software.
You can Favorite ones you like,
and they even have some ad-supported music,
as well as some sound effects to use in your videos.
Now, at number two, we have
Free Music Archive.
This one is a little bit harder to dig through
because you have to find the right genre you want
and sub-genre, and sorting through
by most interesting is what I found
really helps me find songs that have risen to the top
and other people are interested in.
Once you find an artist you like,
you can end up using a bunch of their songs.
Broke for free.
At number three, we have SoundCloud.
SoundCloud is great because
there's so much out there.
The one thing you have to be careful of
is not just taking someone's song
and using it in your video without their permission.
I'm gonna show you how to contact someone
on SoundCloud and see if you can use their song
in your video.
After you log in, go search for music that you like.
If you want Dubstep, for some reason,
you can click Dubstep
and then it'll pull up a bunch
of different genres and individual tracks.
Let's say I really like this song, Fool's Gold, by The Brig.
All you have to do is find the artist's name,
click on it, and then, over on the right here,
next to the Follow button, is a contact,
like send a message to them,
and write 'em a little message.
This'll be sent through SoundCloud.
If they're a heavy SoundCloud user,
they will see these messages.
Just say something like,
"Hey, I love your track.
"I'd love to use it in one of my videos.
"Let me know if there's a way I can license it from you,
"or, if you're okay with just an attribution."
That is all you really need to say.
As long as they respond, and say,
'Yeah, go for it.",
you can use these songs in your videos.
Now, let's go into some of the paid options.
Up at number four, is Musicbed.
Now, this is my favorite option for licensing music.
Some of the things I really like about this site
are their curated playlists, that they continually update.
They also have really good playlists
for, what they call, vibes or genres.
They also are always updating what's new
and whatever artists are putting out music
on the site, the most recently.
If you want something that nobody else is using,
go to this What's New section.
Also, you can just search by a specific
genre or mood or characteristic or instrument.
They have a ton of options to go through
to find the exact music that you want to use.
Another thing I really like, is their music specialists.
Now, in the lower right-hand corner,
it'll say Chat with a music specialist.
This isn't some automated thing,
if you click this, it opens a live chat
with someone on their team,
after you've logged into Musicbed.
I've gotten great recommendations for videos
that I've made this way.
They even have a great mobile app
that you can listen to potential music using, then Favorite.
Add those songs to Wishlist,
and then, you can always license those later.
All music I bought for client projects this year
has come from Musicbed, including the four-part series
I did over at Smart Passive Income TV, for Ghana,
all those songs I worked with a music specialist
to get a good feel, so that over the four videos,
the videos all had similar music,
but not the exact same song.
Up at number five is Marmoset,
which is another great option.
They have a huge library and they have really good
search tools to use.
My favorite part is when you go to browse,
you actually fill out a formula for what kind of video
you're making.
You could say that your project is bouncy
and angelic and is a journey.
It'll specifically pick songs that fit in
within those mood words that you're using.
You can also still use things like energy,
whether there's vocals or not,
instrumentals only, and my most favorite part of Marmoset
is the Arc section.
You can specifically look at songs
and see whether or not they build
toward some grandiose moment in your video
or short film or whatever you're using this for,
or if you have something that you just
want in the background that's chill
and it's just going below a tutorial video you're doing
or some other talking head video,
then you just get one of the flat arcs,
which I guess isn't really an arc 'cause it's flat,
but you know what I mean.
That's it.
That's five different places that you can check out
to get music and put it in your videos.
You might want to start with the free options
if you're not making any money for your videos,
but if you're doing a video that is going to be
a little bit bigger, maybe it's a little bit more
professional and you're selling it to a client,
then you're probably gonna wanna go
with one of the paid options.
Music can really make or break a video,
so take the extra time to look through a bunch of songs
and figure out what would be the best fit
for what you're doing.
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Also, let me know, in the comments below,
where you get music for your videos.
Do you have a talented pet that plays ukulele?
Do you beat box on the side?
Let me know in the comments below this post
where you get your music from.
Coming up, over the next few weeks,
I'll be making a lot of videos about
Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro X,
because I'm coming out with
an online course about each,
and I wanna help you figure out
which software you should be using to edit,
or if you're already using one of those,
how you can use it as best as possible
and as fast as possible
to get through the edits of your video.
That's it for this video.
Thanks so much for watching
and remember, if you're gonna do it,
might as well do it on video.