In this article you’ll learn where to get free music from for your commercial video projects and how you can easily compose music yourself — even if you’re a totally unmusical person.
Let’s assume you work in the social media team of a company. Or you’re a journalist posting social media content from the road. But you don’t have the budget to shell out money for every soundtrack in every video you produce. Simply because you produce quite a lot. Then you have two options:
- make use of the thousands of soundtracks which you can use for free or
- compose the music you need yourself. You can do that even if you are totally unmusical. No joke. Because there are great and intuitive apps for it.
Let’s start with our first option.
1. The following websites offer free music
Check out the website filmmusic.io: it lists almost 3000 soundtracks for free. You can even use them commercially, but you must mention the composer and some more specific information. …
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