hey everyone this is Grace from Kapwing and today i'm going to show you five awesome and underrated
places to get no copyright music that you can use in your videos for social media if you don't know
already most popular music is copyrighted meaning that if you use it in your videos on social media
your videos could get demonetized taken down or even cause your account to receive a strike
which are all things you definitely want to avoid with that being said you can still use music
in your videos for free without these things happening as long as you use non-copyrighted
music now there are a lot of places to find non-copyrighted music but a lot of these places
won't let you access their music for free or they will have music that just doesn't sound
very modern so to make the creation process easier for you i'll point you to our recommendations for
where to get free non-copyright music that you can use easily in your videos if you're new here make
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now one thing i will say before i dive into the places you can get good free non-copyright music
is that you want to be careful when you are selecting music one place that a lot of people
tend to go to is youtube and i definitely did this in the past it's easy to search for it's
right there but the thing is that a lot of these channels and places that have non-copyright music
they get that music from artists looking to grow their platform and brand but once they
are bigger artists sometimes they do go back and monetize songs that were initially non-copyright
i've definitely been there for videos i've made on my personal channel where i thought it was
a non-copyright song and then later down the line like months or even years later i get copyrighted
and i don't get that revenue anymore and i have to switch out the song you want to avoid all of
that from the start and the places i'm about to mention for free non-copyright music will help
you do that so i'm going to first go through all the places i recommend for non-copyright music
and then at the very end i'll show you how to use this music easily to add it to your videos
all the links for everything i'm talking about in this video will be in the description below so
go check the links out so my first recommendation is stream beats by harris heller so harris heller
is a twitch streamer and youtuber he is a musician as well and he created a whole collection of music
for video creators to use in their videos because he himself has experiences with trying to find
good music that's modern for his videos too while there's only four categories i feel like this is
a good range you have more edm or upbeat songs that you can use for intros and outros and then
more lo-fi and chill songs for maybe the middle of your videos or just like more chill areas you can
just go through and browse the songs listen to them and then click download to save the actual
file to your device now my second recommendation is thematic thematic feels a little more like
spotify where artists have pages that you can browse through their songs and what i find really
helpful with thematic is that you can see actual videos that these songs have been used in so just
like previewing this to see what kind of music is used in different categories of videos on youtube
when you browse music you can also search by genre or mood one thing you have to do if you do use
thematic is connect your social media accounts such as youtube or instagram or anything else
to thematic so that when you use their music it doesn't get flagged for copyright now thematic has
a free version and then they also have a premium version i found the free version to be perfect for
my needs but if you do want the premium version we actually have a discount code provided by thematic
where you can get 10 off their premium plan using the code KAPWING10 this code lasts until january
31st 2021 so if you want to use it go for it my third recommendation is the youtube audio library
so this is a audio library that youtube has created themselves for their youtube creators
and using their music can give you peace of mind because youtube actually gave it to you
themselves they have a couple genres of music that you can sort through and preview and while
i find that these genres are generally good for background music and upbeat music sometimes i
do feel like they're lacking more modern tracks things like lo-fi but i still think they are a
good easy resource to use where you can just click to download the songs and then take note of if the
music requires attribution in the video that you publish or not my next recommendation is ben sound
ben sound has a lot of different types of music i'd say it's generally better for more
professional sounds for example if you're making a promo video for your channel or for a brand i
used a track from bensound in our what is kapwing video which was kind of just an overarching promo
for our brand and channel their platform is also very easy to use they have some tags at the top
for searching through different genres and then to download you can just click download right
there the biggest downside with benson is that a lot of their songs can sound generic it's not as
good for lo-fi or modern tracks like the other recommendations i've given are so if you're
looking for more modern sounds definitely look at the options i mentioned previously but this
is really good option to find more general music for more professional settings and then my last
recommendation is soundcloud soundcloud is last on my list because it can be hit or miss but it does
have some gems i'd recommend searching things like no copyright music in the search bar or
royalty-free music to try and find some of these the annoying part is having to look through every
single song checking what its copyright status is or if you can download it in soundcloud or if you
have to go to an external website to download it but i have found some good music with soundcloud
so it definitely still is a valid option now to actually use your non-copyright music you'll
need to first download it from the site and make sure you take note of what kind of attribution
you'll need to provide to the creators or the platform then you can take that audio track and
upload it to whatever video editing service you use to add it to videos now if you don't know
of a good video editing option or just want something quick and simple our product kapwing is
a completely online video editor where you can add music to videos and make other edits as well it
works on any device from computers to chromebooks tablets and phones so it's a versatile option
basically to add your non-copyright music to your video you can just head to kapwing which is the
first link in the description below start a new project upload your video and then go to the audio
tab and upload your audio track there that audio track will be played throughout the whole video
and the whole project then if you want to add more audio tracks or be able to trim where exactly in
the video they start and end you can do that in the timeline so in the main studio page
you can click timeline upload your audio tracks there and move them around and this works for not
only music but also things like voiceovers and sound effects you can make other edits to your
video like adding text or subtitles or other image overlays and move things around on the canvas then
once you're ready to finish up just click the red export button your video will load for a
few moments and then you'll be able to download it at the end make sure you give credit to the artist
and the platform especially taking note of their requirements for using the sounds and then you're
done thanks for watching this video let us know which platform is your favorite in the comments
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