Music for Drama and Personal Stories is a wide ranging description, since you can arguably use anything from hard rock to solo piano or solo cello music to illustrate personal stories. But we've tried to represent tracks here that have a certain emotional, introspective, or thoughtful side to it. Be it independent rock or orchestral / classical based music, you should find music here with an introspective feel; something that you would want to use when you are telling stories about people and their lives. This music also tends to be background music / underscores, rather than up-front music, although there are exceptions as some pop/rock music go well with personal dramas (e.g. "Grey's Anatomy)"
Somewhere between Ambient and contemporary music, this track has a somewhat introspective, soul searching feel. Subtly melodic, transparent, thoughtful and insightful, and with a sense of hope and sincerity, this track will go well with many types of projects, from film & drama underscore to important messages about society, nature and more. Also for political messages, educational projects. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
A touching and tender, mellow, warm and innocent piece with piano and subtle strings. Reflection, heartening and caring. [Tempo: Slow / 127 BPM]
A heartening and warm piano solo track. Moderately busy, with arpeggiated chords and a reflective, heartfelt melody on top. Inspirational and heartfelt. Think love and friendships, community and togetherness, a reflection on the important things in life. [Tempo: Medium / 98 BPM]
A beautiful, touching and graceful, cinematic music track based on a memorable piano theme, strings and subtle orchestral brass. Poignant / Fragile / Haunting / Introspective Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 65 BPM]
An emotional, sentimental and heartfelt melody for piano and strings. Soft, passionate, delicate, heartening music. Melancholic and richly layered. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 110 BPM]
A simple track combining of an acoustic guitar, a piano and an organ. Soft, soothing and very reflective, this track has a strong sense of emotion while also being suitable as a backing for many different types of applications. [Tempo: Medium / 81 BPM]
Somewhere between classical and contemporary, this track has a sense of truth, sincerity and hope. Subtly inspiring in a somewhat restrained and dignified way. Melodic, heartening and classy. Good for messages about hope and the human condition. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
Cold, dark, damp and desolate music to accompany tragedies, mysteries and epic sadness. A choir, strings and piano pierce your heart from a distance building to a climactic farewell. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 55 BPM]
Dark and desolate film underscore. Haunting / Mournful. Quirky and unique sound design with acoustic piano and strange synthesizers. Otherwordly / Poignant / Fragile / Dark. Think Donnie Darko. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
Live performed solo piano piece - heartfelt and emotional with melancholic melodies. As the name suggests, this piece was written during the many periods when I tried to get my life in focus and deciding on a direction -- it offers a great opportunity to unwind and just 'contemplate'. [Tempo: Slow / 133 BPM]
Spacious, ethereal, edgy, tense music with a nice slow build in intensity. Atmospheric, grand, moody, dramatic, regal & engaging like a fanfare. would suit cinematic / documentary / dramatic / mystery / thriller type projects. Reflective / intelligent and thought provoking. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 56 BPM]
For extreme sports or similar productions. Progressive Electronic. Energetic, Moving/Driving, Groovy. Synth Bass, Drum Grooves, Vocal/Vox, Synthesizers. Teen/Pop Culture, Fashion/Style, Commercials/TV themes. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 129 BPM]
Solo Piano. Acoustic Piano track with a minor theme, then a major theme for before and after Positive solution. Introspective, thoughtful, developing. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
Funky smooth jazz ballad, like Randy Crawford or other blues / R&B / funk / jazz crossovers. Muted trumpet lead, soulful electric piano, jazz solo. Also available as an Underscore version, without the lead instruments. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
Downtempo, dark and sensual nightly jazz, featuring a low thumping beat and saxophone. Conjures images of dark alleys, mysterious strangers, intrigue and conspiracy in the city. Smokey, mysterious, intriguing. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
An orchestral piece for Piano, it's melancholic and romantic feel would give a poetic addition to a colourful video. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
This track features lyrical saxophone melody and a drone played by bass and drums to evoke a peaceful, serene atmosphere. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
An intense epic action cue with driving percussion rhythms, orchestral energy, and big drums, underscoring anything from a fast car chase to a battle between man and machine, with a riveting climax. Very much in the vein of John Powell's "Bourne" movies and the scores of Hanz Zimmer and Steve Jablonsky ("Batman Begins" and "Transformers"). [Tempo: Fast / 155 BPM]
Reflective piano and moving strings combine to create an emotional yet hypnotic sound, full of thought and introspection. Perfect for undercore, drama or anything requiring a human touch [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
A solo piano song that is reflective, nostalgic, pretty, classy, thoughtful, instrospective, romantic and tender. Very new age piano sound. Perfect for underscore in dramatic scenes or to set up a reflective mood. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
String quintet developing a dramatic theme, suited for dramatic series involving psycological or criminal content. Timeless, with a classic / classical influence music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 160 BPM]
A delicate, reflective and pensive piano piece accompanied by strings and flute. It has a hopeful air about it conveying deep thought and emotion. [Tempo: Slow / 95 BPM]
Ethereal, spacey chant-like track. Ethnic vocals samples mix with brooding synth bass notes, sitars and percussion. Very uniquely moving track full of passion and the trials of life. [Tempo: Slow / 57 BPM]
Calm, soothing, beautiful solo piano performance by Dmitriy Lukyanov. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
Smooth and orchestral Ambient / Cinematic Music crossover. Features a full string orchestra accompanied by warm piano and synth to give a calm, yet dramatic feeling. A bit mysterious / a dark undertone. Contemplative / Pensive Music. [Tempo: Slow / 105 BPM]
This beginning of this track has an 60's era feel to it (old transistor radio). It starts with a lovey-dovey passage in the vein of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles, with just acoustic guitar and vocals. The hi-def quality kicks in with the full rock band and it transforms into a modern rock version of the passage. It has strong salsa and latin percussion, which gives it a slight Mexican sound. It will work well with heat/ fire, high-energy, dramatic, epic, speed and action-filled footage. Energetic guitars with a thumping bass line somewhere between pop and indie rock. The lyrics in the chorus describe a girl so seductive and hot that she paralyzes anyone she puts her eyes on. It's about "emotions amplifying" when she's around and feeling so head-over-heels infatuated and over-powered by a crush that it makes you want to cash in your chips. Game over. Sold. The lyrics in the verse talk about being original, one of a kind, and expressing the things that you need in a perfect relationship, i.e. "If you want to be lover darling... you've got to drop the expectations". Available as a vocal version and an instrumental verison. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 126 BPM]
A dramatic, but uplifting, spirited and regal, hero theme. Full orchestra with huge percussion / drums play a heroic theme, like soldiers' homecoming, a daring rescue mission, or awe inspiring, spine tingling, heroes entry. Forces of good, rising up to battle evil or save the day. Good for disaster movie, rescue and reality TV, Hollywood style productions. (A note about the version described as 'Stage Mix': This version is recorded with the reverb/ambiance of a concert hall, making it sound somewhat more 'distant' from the listener and, some would say, more 'live') [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
Ominous, foreboding choir voices soon give way to an all-out, blazing and massive, glorifying, epic, orchestral theme. Dramatic, massive, impressive. Great for intros, trailers, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
Lyrical acoustic track featuring solo guitar. Slightly contemplative yet positive. Suitable as a film underscore. [Tempo: Slow / 95 BPM]
Driving, repetitive motif over a dreamy orchestral and synthetic music bed, filled with a discovery aura. Positive sense of motion and purpose with a think out of the box atmosphere. This music track is made to fit together with 'Transformation Prelude', also by Felipe Adorno Vassao. The two tracks share the same motif; 'Transformation Prelude' is more quiet, awaiting, pensive; and 'Transformation' is more developed, rhythmic, highly suitable for the 'next stage' in development. [Tempo: Medium / 132 BPM]
A folk/country song about the inner turmoil after moving on from a relationship, hoping you’ve made the correct decision. Starting with gentle acoustic rhythm guitar and male vocal, building into uplifting chorus with drums, strings, electric guitar and backing vocals. Electric guitar solo at 1:30, and 3:10. Fading down to quiet ending of just strings and gentle vocal. Instrumental version also available. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 66 BPM]
An ethereal, contemplative piano based theme that slowly introduces subtle synth pads and strings - Reflective / Ambient / Peaceful [Tempo: Very slow / 75 BPM]
A mellow, reflective and warm piece of electric, ambient guitar music. Hopeful, warm, heartening, searching. You get a feeling it tells a story. [Tempo: Slow / 126 BPM]
Acoustic guitar / Dreamy. This minimalist track is very moody and reflective. The acoustic guitars create a mood of introspective dissonance and space. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
Starting small with a sense of isolation and tension, the drama gradually intensifies, ending with an epic final note. A modern combination of piano, guitar, synths, percussion and strings. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
Mellow, soothing, fantasy world. Harp and soft strings. Like a magical place, or a beautiful evening with a special friend. [Tempo: Slow / 84 BPM]
A slow and simmering blues-rock music track with emotive guitar leads. Impassioned, strong, proud and heartening music. Hints of the sound and feel of Pink Floyd / David Gilmour. [Tempo: Slow / 140 BPM]
Clean electric guitar textures. Ambient, dreamy, easy. [Tempo: Slow / 72 BPM]
Inquisitive and mildly psychedelic. This track features a bell synth as the main melody, before it evolves into a full rendition by the strings. Eerie music with a sense of something unknown or unfathomable. A great track for mysteries, investigations and strange occurrences. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
Emotive / Emotional Hip-Hop / R&B instrumental. Slow beat and lush string section with sincere melodies and a sense of melancholy, regret, love or nostalgia. Deep beat, real strings, heartfelt chord progressions. Good for urban drama / urban movie, storytelling. Personal / Introspective / Thoughtful. [Tempo: Medium / 126 BPM]
A tender, nostalgic and wistful piano solo track. Perhaps dearly held memories, endless love or personal reflection. Beautiful and melodic, but also melancholic. [Tempo: Slow / 93 BPM]
Orchestral piece that has a very tragic air to it. Waves of meloncholy violas and violins that tug on the heartstrings. A beat builds slowly and a simple piano line enters before the chorus swells. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
Underscore music for drama, poignant stories, insights, movies or nature. Sad / grief / melancholic / nostalgia. [Tempo: Very slow / 57 BPM]
Abstract lyrics.Features choral vocal harmonies with nylon string guitar and drums and bass, mid tempo indie music with an uplifting feel. Available as a Vocal version and an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
A bright, playful and upbeat piece of music. Fresh and vibrant with a real sense of positivity and fun. Playtime mixes modern electronic sounds with a great beat, warm synths and an effective piano. Refreshing, feel good modern music. Will work well with positive ideas, technology, learning, health and well being. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
An emotive, cinematic, flowing music track made with synths, emotional strings, epic percussion and more. This track has a sense of wonderment and amazement. It grows and develops over time - and then ends with a nostalgic, wistful afterthought. Epic / Trailer / Advertising Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 130 BPM]
This musical composition starts off with fragile, longing, reflective and melancholic strings, and gradually builds and grows into a more heartening, hopeful piece with piano and strings. Awakening / New hope / Coming to terms music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Bittersweet solo piano royalty free track, good for drama, introduction sequences and story telling. [Tempo: Slow / 94 BPM]
Positive, dramatic and grand stadium rocker à la U2. Clean guitars build with a driving backbeat to the epic chorus where waves of dirty guitars and strings wash over you like a monsoon after years of drought. Highly charged & emotional. [Tempo: Medium / 137 BPM]
Easy, gentle and relaxing, nostalgic msuic track made with orchestra and warm piano. Tender / Soft / Warm Music. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
