Underscore cue for drama or personal stories. Tender, thoughtful, reflective, intimate. Contemplation, perhaps memories, decision making. Has a wistful side, perhaps a missing piece or searching for hope. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 110 BPM]
A beautiful and sorrowful piano track with a historical feel. Perhaps wartime Europe, sadness and reflection, yet also beauty and hope. Played live on an old piano. In the later parts of the track, the piano is joined by soft, frail strings. Very touching piece. Mournful, thoughtful and delicate. Serious. Good for history, historical drama, documentary, film/television drama, loss and sorrow. [Tempo: Medium / 60 BPM]
Emotional and sentimental Pop-Rock Ballad with a romantic touch featuring inspiring guitar melodies, solid bass and energetic drums. [Tempo: Slow / 81 BPM]
A romantic and seductive cinematic track that will work for scenes of love and grandeur. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 65 BPM]
An emotional, instrumental guitar rock ballad. Sincere, heartfelt melodies with medium tempo guitar riffs and solos. Good for drama, tv show, personal stories, love stories, love drama, introspection and more. [Tempo: Medium / 107 BPM]
Emotional, slightly dreamy, track featuring a small, all female vocal choir with the North African / Middle Eastern plucked instrument Oud and ethnic percussion. Builds in intensity towards the 2-minute mark and features an ethnic flute in the closing section. Can be jewish/Israeli, as well as Middle Eastern, North African, Arabic, Egypt, etc. Mournful, serious, epic with a religious or spiritual feel, also depicting beauty, frailty and vulnerability. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A slowly developing film underscore track; piano, orchestra, solo violin. Later, soft clarinet lead. Pensive / apprehensive / questioning mood, slowly passing of time. Story telling, mystery, drama, gradually developing plot. [Tempo: Slow / 53 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]
A thoughtful piano solo, wistful and pretty. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Emotional and touching cinematic music track featuring piano and full orchestral strings. Beautiful melodies with deep romantic feel great for films, love and romance videos, photo slideshows and documentaries. Tender, gentle, slightly melancholic and sentimental composition with a deep thoughtful harmonic background. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
A solemn and heartfelt underscore for film / TV. Piano and strings. Fragile, tender, emotional. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A melancholic and introspective piano + strings piece. Repeating piano pattern, wistful strings and a sense of longing. Good for drama, storytelling, etc. Heartening, poignant. [Note, this track was previously titled 'Ambient Piano' but has been retitled to 'Ripples of Reflection'.] [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
A mournful and solemn, but also hopeful and inspirational dramatic underscore track. Starts with cello and gradually builds with acoustic guitar strumming and drums. Sad, but comforting and soothing. Dreamy, inspirational, aspirational. Good for commercials, drama/film and more. ('Pleureuse' is French and translates to 'mourner'). [Tempo: Slow / 78 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]
A Country song with old Country influences about loving and thinking about a girl while in battle. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 69 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]
Using elements of acoustic, symphonic and electronic sounds, this is a dark and mysterious musical painting with an element of tragedy or nostalgia. Suitable for film soundtrack or fantasy work etc. Sweeping strings. Dark electric piano. Ominous french horns. [Tempo: Slow / 87 BPM]
A downtempo / Ambient chill track with a sense of mystery and vast open landscapes. We would label this as "Nordic Ambient" with influence from Sigur Ros and from Scandinavian / Nordic dramas and landscapes. The bitty drum sounds give it a little bit of a retro / 1980's feel too. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
Downtempo Electro Chill. Dreamy / Quirky / Odd / Otherworldly. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
A slightly dark, atmospheric, downtempo chill-out track. Repeated, sultry bass line, electric piano, moody pads. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
A reflective acoustic guitar based song featuring organ, percussion, bass and male main vocal. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
Melancholic female vocals directs the emotion here. Typical instruments of the Arab and Indian worlds merge with a modern string orchestra. Multifaceted, imaginative and well suited to accompany dramatic Bollywood movie scenes. Also available as an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
Reflective / Melancholic / Touching / Fragile Music. Neo-classical, piano with light orchestra arrangement, suitable as music for film, drama, TV and other media. [Tempo: Slow / 74 BPM]
This track transitions from an acoustic guitar to a full band ending. This track would be good for anything with a sad tone. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 154 BPM]
17 parts of film or TV soundtrack, underscore music. These go well together, or separately. It provides the backdrop for suspense, pensive action, sometimes dark fused with a variety of sound effects of bell tolls, haunting pads, jailhouse door slams to complete the scene. Each piece was written with a whole film in mind enabling the user with the tools to blend tracks to their own making or for each to stand alone in its own right. Mystery, intrigue, conflict, investigation, etc. [Tempo: Slow / 58 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]
A warm and reflective piece performed on clean electric jazz guitar. Elements of jazz, pop ballad and blues. A poignant, thoughtful, nostalgic, emotional and comforting track, highly suitable for film and media. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 92 BPM]
Stunningly simple and enchanting piano, choir and strings. Magical, wondrous, awe-inspiring and heavenly emotions throughout great for commercials, movies and documentaries. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 45 BPM]
Melancholy and reflective, this piece is perfect for a documentary or a quiet scene in a film or show. It’s mostly piano and strings, playing a simple sad melody. The final moments are reflective and moody. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 90 BPM]
Traditional tango. Passion, excited, retro atmosphere. Medium tempo. Violin, acoustic guitar, accordeon. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A solo female voice hums a love theme in a slow, solemn manner. The style of singing generates a heart-breaking ambience that also still has an air of romanticism about it. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Tender and sorrowful, cinematic film/drama underscore. Sweeping strings, light orchestra. Touching, emotional, sad. [Tempo: Very slow / 0 BPM]
A pensive, broody and mystical musical backdrop, perhaps of an ancient time or a mysterious, forgotten place. Very highly suitable as an atmospheric background for a dark fantasy world. [Tempo: Slow / 104 BPM]
Mysterious and dreamy, electric guitar gently plays over a rich soundscape. Perfect for creating a mood of mystery, intrigue and sadness. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A beautiful solo piano ballad. Tender, understated, poignant, perhaps regretful or vulnerable music track. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 56 BPM]
A percussion driven cinematic track with an epic feel and a dark edge. Suitable for war, conflict, rise of soldiers or warriors. Also good for movie trailers, product trailers, adventure and fantasy etc. This track can be said to consist of three movements; the first and the third parts are rhythmic, dramatic, epic, where as the middle part is more creepy and suspenseful, with twisted soundscapes and murmurings with heavy percussion slams. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
This track has a prominent brass theme that inspires unity and calls to battle. Orchestral theme filled with rising strings and huge drum hits. The song builds to a digitally distorted drop with gritty synthesizers and gliding melodies. Good for movie and video game trailers as well as action sports and battle sequences. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 65 BPM]
Solemn, proud indie rock instrumental with a touch of sadness. Dramatic sounding with knowledge, acceptance, and heartbreak. Clean guitar strums chords for the first :35 and then band joins in. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 80 BPM]
A fragile, pretty and melancholic piano & strings piece. Touching / Emotive / Passionate. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A melancholic and emotive film / drama underscore track with piano and strings. Hopeful / fragile / reflective / true. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A dark Irish lament on solo fiddle. Authentic Ireland. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Dreamy, film like peace with a very dreamy, haunting sound. Distant, touching, contemplative music. Vocoder processed voices, piano and strings. Contemplative, melancholy Americana influence. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a sudden kidnapping. Orchestral with piano, with electric bass and percussion, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
Slow, sad and very beautiful piano-lead track with a tragic air. Would suit romantic/dramatic/documentary type projects. [Tempo: Slow / 66 BPM]
Eerie vocals, in the vein of Danny Elfman. The slow pace, child-like rhythm and spooky vocals give the track give it a darker edge. Other instruments include the celeste, harp and synths. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 83 BPM]
Movie soundtrack featuring acoustic piano with delay fx, electric guitars, strings, electronic elements. Melancholic and thoughtful, sad. Will work with love, romantic, dramatic movie and as a video background too. Solo piano version is also available. [Tempo: Slow / 62 BPM]
Haunting and mysterious Middle Eastern instrumental for exotic movie scenes, documentaries, trailers or any project in need of a dark, ambient eastern soundtrack. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A dramatic, emotionally uplifting and moving composition for string orchestra with a powerfully developed theme, underscoring anything from an epic farewell to an ultimate heartfelt redemption. [Tempo: Very slow / 110 BPM]
Beautiful, yet melancholic acoustic guitar piece, with a feeling of Baltic winters and icy landscapes. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
A sad and emotional, epic drama soundtrack piece. Softly swaying string sections backed by a full philharmonic orchestra get the goosebumps out. Melodies full of emotion, between dark and light. A sorrowful, single soprano voice occasionally sings out, giving the track an angelic, heavenly, otherworldly feel. Great for fantasy, sci-fi, drama, grand adventures, epic love stories. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 106 BPM]
