Background music for videos on social media in YouTube is one of my favorite
topics because there are so many confusing options out there and most
people think that what you're looking for is free background music and I get
that but if everyone keeps using the same free songs over and over again for
their background music then how do your videos stand out and establish you and
your brand as the go-to Authority and influencer in your niche they really
know
that's why most successful content creators on YouTube and social media
including myself are using affordable background music options instead my name
is Meredith Marsh and if you're into creating better videos so that you can
grow your audience and income online then give this video a big thumbs up by
hitting that like button down below and I'm glad that you found me because
that's exactly what I talk about here on this channel and in this video I'm going
to divulge all the gory details of using background music in your videos on
YouTube and social media so we're talking free background music sources
inexpensive affordable sources for your royalty free background music plus how
do you actually use popular songs in your videos and how do you actually use
the music in your video editing software basically we're talking how to use
background music in your videos for YouTube and social media without
breaking the law and without breaking the bank now I want to let you know Wow
oh my gosh look at all this crap behind hang on a minute
now I want to start right off by letting you know that for this video I've
partnered with one of my all-time favorite sources of background music
epidemic sound and if you're at all familiar with epidemic sound you know
they have a pretty generous 30-day free trial for new users at least that's
usually what they give new customers but as a friend of vid pro mom that's and me
they're letting me give you a three month free trial two epidemic sound as
their Black Friday deal and we're going to talk about exactly what that means
and what you can do with your free trial - because there are a lot of common
misconceptions about how epidemics sound works so if you've ever been remotely
interested in a using epidemic sound for your background music or if you're
totally new to this whole background music royalty-free stuff to begin with
then keep watching now I mentioned the term royalty free background music what
the heck does that even mean right well royalty free background music is
basically music that you can acquire the right to use for YouTube and social
media for example so it may be free to get the right or you may have to pay
money to get the right to use the music now like I already mentioned a lot of
people are looking for a free background music and I totally get that I mean who
wants to spend money on something if you could get it for free from another
source but if you're creating videos as a means to build your personal brand
your business your authority online even if it's just a hobby it makes sense to
invest in a couple of areas and if creating videos is like your main
platform your main medium then background music is one of the least
expensive things that you can do to invest in your brand but if you are
still genuinely interested in free background music sources there are two
places that I highly recommend you check out one is YouTube's audio library and
the other one is incompetent calm and as you browse those audio libraries
you likely start to hear some music that you've heard before the free music is
all over YouTube so just be mindful of that as you're kind of going down that
rabbit hole and I put links to both of the things I mentioned down in the
description below now a lot of people wonder what about popular music can I
use a song that I purchased from Apple through iTunes or Google Play or
something I mean I paid for it so shouldn't I be able to use it in my
youtube videos and many people are shocked to learn that the buck 29 that
they paid doesn't give them exclusive rights to just do whatever they want to
do with that song actually your dollar 29 gave you the right to listen to the
song on your devices if you wanted to broadcast it or use it in a movie or a
YouTube video or even perform it in public you have to have a special
license for that you know music creators are artists just like painters designers
authors video creators and so as the copyright holder they're the one that
gets to make decisions about how that piece of media is used by the way I'm
not an attorney and this is not legal advice it's just common sense and human
decency now if you did want to use popular music in your YouTube and social
media videos like songs you hear on the radio you could check out song freedom
so if you hear some popular songs in YouTube videos oftentimes their creators
who have a very large following there's a good chance that they simply paid the
licensing fee and they probably paid a pretty penny for it too now luckily
there is a happy medium between the free overused background music in the
expensive licenses and that's where my pals over at epidemic sound come in
because for a low monthly subscription you get access to their entire library
of songs all genres all types even sound effects there's over 30,000 songs so
whether you take advantage of their normal quite generous 30 day free trial
or you hop on the Black Friday deal and get a three month free trial all of the
music that you use and publish to social in YouTube during that trial is covered
with your license even if you never pay them a dime so let's say you sign up for
a free trial today and you publish a video next week and the week after and
the week after that any time within your free trial and then you decide not to go
with a paid subscription to epidemic sound your videos are still good to go
you don't have to take them down you're not gonna get a copyright strike they're
not even gonna be demonetised and if you do want to use their music moving
forward when you publish new videos their Creator subscription is only 15
dollars a month so it's a complete no-brainer
especially if you jump on that Black Friday deal using the coupon down below
and even after that I mean a 30-day free trial it's still a no brainer now like I
said I put the Black Friday coupon code down below this video
along with the link that's traced back to me so use those together to make sure
that you get those three full months of your free trial I also put links down
there to some other favorite sources of background music like audio jungle
Shutterstock music fine sound stripe and audio box some of those services have
subscription models and other ones have like a one-off system where you can buy
the right to use a song for as little as like 10 or 20 dollars and of course I
put links to all of those down below as well so what do you do once you find a
song that you like and you want to use it in your video what you need to import
it into your video editing software so when it comes to epidemics sound well I
keep a collection of some of my favorites here on epidemics sound now
epidemics sound is just releasing a brand new interface for searching for
all of the different genres and moods and everything but up under my account I
can go to my music and I have a collection of songs that I just keep as
my favorite so I can always come back to them and sometimes I come across songs
that remind me of something else so I put them under sound-alikes and then for
example we have stranger things here so if I ever need a song with that like 80s
sci-fi vibe then I'll know where to find it but
usually I'll find songs that I already like and if I want to look even further
and I'll just find one of these and I can actually find similar songs to it so
let's just look at what does power walk in satellite so let's say I like that
song and I want more like that I'll hit this little find similar button and
we'll see what we can find here so using the beats per minute and the genre and
all that stuff epidemic sound will find similar songs so when you have a really
great list of songs you really like all you have to do is go find similar songs
to that and I find that saves me a ton of time when I'm choosing my background
music so let's download one of these here to use in our project now normally
I download the full mix which means I'm just downloading the song as is so let's
do that and you also have the option to download this stems and this stems are
where you get the separate instruments completely like on their own track so
you have a drum track for the melody and so you can mix these any way that you
want but like I said I'm usually just using the full mix I keep all of my
background music on an external hard drive it's this G G Drive mobile C is
one terabyte they keep it on there so that I can take it with me wherever I
take my laptop all my background music is on there so I'm going to drag this
over put it in my epidemic sound folder which is inside of my assets folder and
if I come over here to Premiere Pro and then all I have to do is drag this over
into my epidemic sound bin in Premiere Pro and then drag it down to my timeline
here and then I'll come in and just fine-tune it usually I have to turn it
down and I'll use keyframes here so we can we can do that so that's how I
import my background music from epidemics sound into
premiere pro it's different for every single video because my intros are
different now I've actually used the same outro music because I just like it
and it works for me so in Premiere Pro I just basically
bring the volume up as I'm telling you hey thanks for watching give this video
a big thumbs up if it was helpful for you and run and grab that Black Friday
deal from epidemic sound grab your three free months and then come back here and
leave me a like a turkey emoji or something in the comments to let me know
that you did it is there even a turkey emoji yes there is
thanks epidemic sound for working with me on this coupon and I hope you have an
excellent Thanksgiving