Soft, slow & emotional royalty free orchestral music track with piano. Beautifully lilting & hypnotic piano arpeggios combine with heart-wrenching strings to make a peaceful,cinematic and emotive tune that would suit serious dramas/documentaries & epic romantic projects. [Tempo: Slow / 76 BPM]
American / patriotic style track with strings and trumpet. Dignity, honor, freedom, values, and a slightly military style arrangement. There is also an alternative version with added timpani & snare drums (previews below). [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A short, romantic piece with a wistful or nostalgic tone. Highly suitable for radio commercial, TV program intro, web site and more. Soft strings and tender, melodic piano. Love, family, friendships and cherished memories. Two different 30-secs versions are available; on version 2, the piano goes to a higher octave towards the end. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
A dark, weird, ambient underscore that provides light background tension for a sad story. The vibe and feel are disturbing, depressing, and sad. The music will support episodic TV, documentaries and films that have dark drama. Eventually the tune releases and provides more hope. It's kind of like two cues in one so listen all the way through. The music is thoughtful, pensive and introspective. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A mystical world / exotic music track made with atmoshperic synths, epic drums and eastern native instruments. Dark / Hot / Foreboding Music. Can be ancient Africa or Middle East. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
Like an unfolding story, a relaxing, calm and emotional track with two acoustic guitars. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
Softly sweeping orchestral strings. Sorrowful. Acceptance of fate and destiny. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Slow swing ballad with introspective lyrics referencing alcohol, moods, and outlook on life. Male jazz vocalist and quartet featuring guitar, bass, piano, brush drums. You can’t quite put your finger on whether the mood of the singer is accepting, melancholy, a little of both, or just too drunk to care. Piano and guitar solos. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 60 BPM]
A melancholic piano and cello duet evoking a reflective and sentimental feeling. Tender and loving with a feeling of loss or sorrow throughout. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 110 BPM]
Electro-Ambient / Downtempo / Electro chill. Dreamy / floating / slow pulsating rhythm. [Tempo: Medium / 122 BPM]
A moderate tempo that matches the feel of this philosophical song. The delicate male vocals and acoustic guitar help the song along before the memorable chorus featuring concertina, banjo, acoustic guitar, trumpet and violin. Also available as an instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
A soulful ballad about a couple losing the fight of holding their relationship together. Heart-wrenching and emotional. Suitable for dramatic TV shows, films and commercials etc. Featuring vocals by Tricia Kelly. Also available as an instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
Singer-songwriter track with male and female duet vocals and emotive piano. Somber and solemn vibe about separation and sacrifice. Great for dramatic montages in Film and TV, and as soundtrack or theme song. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
Semi-orchestral track with accordeon melody. European, Balkan or Gypsy feel. Mid- to up-tempo, waltz rhythm. Good for drama, travel and adventure, exploration, holiday, film score and more. Can also be a jewish / Israel track. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
A cinematic piano track that conveys feelings of melancholy but also serenity and positivity, a smile after some tears. Delays and faraway strings and pads add to the atmosphere created by the piano slightly muted and distant sound and grow throughout the track. [Tempo: Slow / 57 BPM]
A slow, sentimental Country instrumental that features acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, drums, and percussion. [Tempo: Slow / 72 BPM]
Live performed solo piano piece - beautiful with a slight melancholy. This is a play on words -- imagine the English countryside in its full beauty at the peak of the summer -- everything is green, the fields, the hedges, the trees -- but imagine all this splendour when there is something missing in your life - love - and you cant help but feel "blue" about things. This piece depicts the beauty of the countryside, and yet the touch of sadness is never far away. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Singer-songwriter ballad with 80s vibe about a breakup and the monotony of relationships. Slow and heartfelt with a guitar focus. Great for tv/film montages, underscore, theme songs, and soundtrack. Also available as an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow / 82 BPM]
This is a cinematic composition with an Eastern European motif. Dark piano accompaniment with Duduk melodies. Great for films and videos with an eastern vibe. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
A melancholy yet heroic piece with piano, pulsing strings and drums. Supports a bruised feeling of determination. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 132 BPM]
A light pop-rock ballad, with sweeping tremolo electric guitars, Wurlitzer, bass, drums and male vocals. This song describes a couple who are sneaking around behind the backs of their spouses, and then get caught. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
Slow paced royalty-free music track with digital drums and deep digital basslines mixed with orchestral hits and strings. Broken future, bleak and ominous. The build up is slow into a melodic yet unsettling drop with strings and crushed drums that resemble a gun shot. A good track for movie and video game trailers, scenes of struggle and repression. Also for forensic investigation, crime / crime scene, spy and undercover agent, etc. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
A nostalgic song about looking back and moving on. Available as a Vocal version and an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow / 67 BPM]
Soft rock/pop song about breaking up with someone who said hurtful things. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
Imagine sitting at the window of a trans-world train watching many different cultures, flavours and atmospheres go past you. A real journey of a piece. You never know quite what will happen next. Contains synth bass and pads, drum machines, ethnic percussion such as tabla and bongos and african voices. [Tempo: Medium / 126 BPM]
A very old Irish folk piece composed originally by Turlough O'Carolan between 1670-1738. This is a sad and longing piece played by fiddle, with guitar accompaniment and later joined by Irish flute. Sombre and slightly mournful, this melancholy piece is beautiful. [Tempo: Slow / 86 BPM]
A progressive and inspiring rock track with multiple interweaved guitar parts and driving drums combining to create a warm and climactic sound. Heartening / Inspiring. [Tempo: Slow, Very slow / 87 BPM]
A heartfelt, melodic pop/rock crossover track that starts softly and then grows to a sweeping, emotional chorus part. Intense, romantic, with rock band plus orchestral strings in an arrangement similar to Coldplay etc. Heartbreak, young people, first love, loss, sorrow or just personal stories, soul searching. Would go well with youth drama, scenes of inner turmoil, thoughts and perhaps personal conflict or great love. [Tempo: Slow / 74 BPM]
Accordion piece with a Paris / France / Europe feel. [Tempo: Slow / 99 BPM]
An emotional journey. Cold synths create a lonely atmosphere and percussion hits accentuate great space. A forlorn solo cello states a desperate theme as tense strings build to the end. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 84 BPM]
Singer songwriter folk track about settling for an imaginary love. Male and female vocals with acoustic guitars, solemn and heartfelt country pop ballad vibes. Suitable for film/tv montages, soundtrack, and theme song. Also available as an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow / 112 BPM]
A fragile, melancholic solo piano piece, recorded live on an old, upright piano with a nice, nostalgic sound. Poignant and emotive.
[Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 70 BPM]Jazz ballad about remembering an old love. [Tempo: Slow / 106 BPM]
An introspective, haunting, film / drama score with a sense of loss, longing and desolation. Cold and dejected. Use for Drama, History, Storytelling. Perhaps true stories, courtroom drama. [Tempo: Slow / 88 BPM]
A hauntingly beautiful solo piano piece for scenes of lost love, sorrow, loneliness, funerals and other tragedies. [Tempo: Slow / 76 BPM]
A relaxed acoustic guitar based song with a Classical guitar intro. Featuring a male main vocal and a female backing vocal. Other instruments include Hammond organ, drums, and fretless bass guitar. [Tempo: Slow / 76 BPM]
Reflective and melancholic, slow and nostalgic music, this track has a slow tempo and a sense of sorrow, but also of hope. Perhaps personal reflection, a new beginning and saying goodbye to the old. Fragile and beautiful, this track uses an unusual, slow and swaying 5/8ths rhythmic pattern. Heartwarming / Nostalgic / Hopeful Music. [Tempo: Slow / 111 BPM]
Emotional and melancholy piano with slow moving, close strings, creating a sad and thoughtful mood. Very minimal sound overall that's warm and tender, yet sad, pensive and reflective. [Tempo: Very slow / 59 BPM]
This track features Piano melody with orchestral symphonic elements in the style of Chopin/Beethoven and the turn of the century mood in the eastern Europe but done in a Tim Burton orchestral fashion ala Danny Elfman. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Reflective Piano piece. Touching, Wistful, Graceful, Nostalgic. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Dark ambient, Horror underscore. Mystery / Eerie / Creepy / Cold. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 60 BPM]
A reflective, emotive and tasteful rendition of the classic Irish folk tune, arranged for piano and violin. Danny Boy is one of the most famous and most loved piece of music in history. With its origin in Irish folk lore, this track is today used in many settings such as St. Paddy's Day, wedding ceremonies, films / movies and more. Recorded exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com by F Hegedus. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 100 BPM]
This is a very powerful acoustic/alternative song with male driven vocals about a rough breakup and the pain someone is going through. The song builds from start to finish and has a very big and dynamic bridge & ending. Also available in an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Overcoming the darkest hour. This is an inspirational and motivational track. It bursts light into the darkness - giving power to the powerless, and hope to the hopeless. [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
Traditional Polish song performed with female vocals, violins, accordion and frame drum. Available as a vocal version, and an instrumental versions with suka biłgorajska lead. [Tempo: Slow / 73 BPM]
Propulsive rhythm pulses from orchestra, synth and percussion ramp up the tension. A tragic melody comes in and out, performed by female vocals. Ethnic instruments like duduk give a mysterious, ancient, middle eastern feel. For modern thrillers, perhaps for the opening credits. Also great for promos and trailers. [Tempo: Medium / 95 BPM]
A rich and soaring, tender and wistful orchestral / cinematic track, featuring a rich orchestra sound and an emotional, touching melody. Grand and passionate. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
A subtle and reflective underscore for film / TV. Piano and strings. Gentle, innocent, fragile, pretty. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Solnatt is a Norwegian word that means 'Night Sun' (roughly). Inspired by the northern midnight sun, this is a fragile and reflective piano piece, with hope and light mixed with melancholy. Highly suitable for use in film or other media or art, this track is somewhat inspired by the tender film music style of Thomas Newman. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A soft piano-led emotional track with bursts of cinematic orchestral stabs and swells to accompany this dramatic piece. Perfect for trailers and emotion-driven visuals. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
