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)"
Beautiful vocal ballad / light vocal pop with male vocal. An instrumental mix is also available. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 117 BPM]
Driving ballad. Story about a girl who is clearly in love, but refuses to commit to the relationship. Modern country meets AAA singer-songwriter. [Tempo: Slow / 83 BPM]
A dramatic track featuring string orchestra, piano, choir, percussion, electric bass synth, and pads. Beginning with a flourished opening, the track is reflective and then builds with brighter harmonies and faster tempos. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
An emotional composition for string section. Wonderment and love / memories / life's big moments. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A thoughtful piano solo, wistful and pretty. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Simple arrangement but very expressive. Melancholic, emotional. [Tempo: Slow / 84 BPM]
This sentimental acoustic track will work well with footage of relationship troubles, reflective, sad, depressing, lonely, bittersweet, homesick or driving footage. Acoustic guitars, melodic piano, strong vocals, vocal harmonies, and soaring violin. The lyrics are all about coming to realization with the end. Closure on a failed relationship, learning to move on, get over it, and learn to love and trust again. Available in a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium / 123 BPM]
An ambient indie dance music track featuring male vocals. The track is arranged with Acoustic Guitar, Synths, Live Snare Drums, Synths and Piano. The four on the floor kicks, and big piano chords give the choruses an epic feel. The verses are more broken down and spacious for an intimate vibe. This is a subtle and graceful music, but passionate and epic feeling track with a lot of emotional content and contrasting sections. Also available as an instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium / 140 BPM]
Atmospheric Indie Rock starting with a single guitar note and building to a powerful climax. A sense of isolation but with an optimistic outlook, never giving up, overcoming obstacles and emotional barriers. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
A duet of acoustic guitars create imagery of walking through the darkness into the light. Feeling that there is always another chance. The two guitars play off each other pulling you into the story to be told mesmerizing the listener. Love or emotional scenes, feelings of the human condition. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
Emotional soft-rock, pop-rock. Strong bass guitar with strummed guitar and clean guitar leads, traditional rock band arrangement. Full, rich sound texture. Great for young programming, youth drama, commercials and on-screen visual media. [Tempo: Medium / 120 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]
Romantic, acoustic ballad with both male and female vocals. (Vocal duet). This track features guest vocals by Whitney Wiatt. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 76 BPM]
Mysterious, mystical and foreboding Arabian or Persian textures. Nervous underscore with a Middle Eastern flavor. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Dark ambient track for underscore use in horror, sci-fi or thriller material. Few notes, occasional reverberant metallic percussion, single deep bass note, heavily processed guitar sound in the distance. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Slow tempo, ambient guitar instrumental. Features an echoing finger picked electric guitar riff, echoing ethereal guitar melodies, bass guitar and a laid back drum rhythm. Moody, atmospheric and cranky. Dark, with a slight element of Blues. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
Moody rock piece, reflective and pensive. Good for scenes of wide open spaces, oceans, sky, flying. Echo laden guitars, pulsing bass and drums, flowing synth pads. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 92 BPM]
Feel-good vocal pop. Acoustic guitars and male vocal. Catchy and appealing. Also available as an instrumental version, which turns it into a nice acoustic guitar stroll. [Tempo: Medium / 131 BPM]
This track has three different tempo changes, from 122 BPM to 92 BPM to 170 BPM, then ending the song in 92 BPM. So the energy goes from high to low then from high to low again. A very emotional and sentimental song about a teenage suicide. A song about distance, depression, alcohol and substance abuse, and a suicide note that was left. The chorus of the song is the suicide note (i.e. The Closeness that I get from you is like the feeling of the first man to walk the moon), first sung by the boy's point of view, then sung from the girl's point of view at the funeral. A tragic Romeo & Juliet style ending to this melodramatic tale of "Alex" and "Sarah". It will work well with death, suicide, alcohol and drug abuse, funerals, emotional, loss, sad, or depressing footage. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 122 BPM]
Calm, soothing, beautiful solo piano performance by Dmitriy Lukyanov. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A sad country duet about a good relationship that went bad because of wanting more. Available as a Vocal version or an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow / 72 BPM]
An atmospheric and warm ambient track with synth pads, electric, synths and electronic drums. Reflective and hopeful, this track could be great background music, as well as something more in focus. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 91 BPM]
This track features a calm, ambient echoing electric guitar melody, reversed echoing chords and bass synth. It creates a dark, ambient, melancholic mood. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 66 BPM]
This acoustic pop track has a walk-paced tempo and features violin, piano, and acoustic guitar. A laid back, soothing, warm song about meeting a crush at a party and asking him/her to dance. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium / 126 BPM]
Friendly and warm, strongly thematic with enough movement to propel a scene forward. Great music for Act II of a romance as the lovers get to know each other. Ideal support for a scene with no dialogue. This solo piano track appeals to the heart in a gentle, positive, understated way. Good music for drama, romance, TV, romantic comedy, family. [Tempo: Slow / 116 BPM]
Vocal pop-rock / singer-songwriter ballad from Jamestown Story. Unplugged acoustic style, with guitar and male vocal. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 76 BPM]
Contemporary jazz music recorded with piano trio, real acoustic instruments. Very slow at the begining with no rhythm, and Double Bass and piano solos with a slow and gentle Rhythm. Modern but easy listening with a simple melody. [Tempo: Slow / 108 BPM]
Mellow, hazy, reflective piano melody with an ambient, open feel. Warm / Sincere. Romantic music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 90 BPM]
Thunderous drums and pipe organs play a menacing, ominous, dark Gothic music piece. Great for fantasy, goth, horror music. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A natural and positive tune for promos and corporate music with an optimistic vibe, guitars, strings and piano used. [Tempo: Medium / 130 BPM]
Floating atmosphere topped by an emotional piano theme, influenced by Thomas Newman. Beauty and drama, loneliness and thought. This track is made to fit together with 'Transformation', 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: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
This is an emotive and strong ambient rock track which builds from a light and warm beginning to a strong and powerful ending. With a real sense of emotion, this track will add depth and meaning to many different applications. Gradually building, crescendo. Inspiring / inspirational. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 79 BPM]
A tender and emotional introduction to this rock track that builds to a strong and powerful sound later on in the piece as it builds to its climax. [Tempo: Slow / 106 BPM]
Middle Eastern, mysterious and haunting soundscape featuring pads, bells and eastern flute. [Tempo: Medium / 95 BPM]
Solo piano, delicate, with a dark side. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A heartfelt acoustic singer songwriter about love, life's struggles and hope. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 172 BPM]
A subtle, solemn and reflective underscore for film, drama and more. Understated but powerful, this is a poignant and deep composition that goes under your skin. Use also for scenes of amazement and natural beauty. True / Insightful / Emotive. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Soulful, expressive blues performed on only two electric guitars, no other instruments. Emotional, a little bit inspired by the sound of Carlos Santana or Jimi Hendrix. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Slow, deeply thoughtful, melancholic and hypnotic piano-lead orchestral piece that tugs at the heartstrings and ticks at the speed of time itself. Simple piano combines with soft staccato woodwind and atmospheric, lush sustained strings. Would suit any dramatic/romantic/documentary/history projects. [Tempo: Slow / 56 BPM]
Pure riff driven track. Double bass drums and pumping bass back the riffness as twin lead harmonies and strings bring more drama to embellish the tune. The mid breaks down into half-time before lead guitar raises the temperature to incendiary. [Tempo: Fast / 142 BPM]
Lyric about lover leaving, most of us feel this at some time in life, done in 50s style, Buddy Holly style electric guitar, acoustic bass and drums, vocal harmony, melancholic. Also available as an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow / 124 BPM]
Traditional Russian folk song in a contemporary, soft pop or easy listening arrangement. Russian folk instruments including bayan ballalayka. Oboes on a backdrop of choir male backing vocals with original Russian words. Medium tempo, romantic, nostalgic, patriotic. Good for travel programs, TV theme, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 82 BPM]
Introspective, reflective, touching, fragile and beautiful piano composition, with subtle strings and bass. Emotive / Tender / Sincere. Available also as a solo piano track, and with/without FX on the piano (prepared piano / straight piano). [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A positive and melodic pop-rock track with a live rock sound. A moderate verse section gives way to a "bigger" chorus part with a big sound of multiple electric guitar tracks. Hopeful, excited, optimistic and bright. Moderately exciting / energetic. Suitable for anything related to a positive lifestyle and joyful events. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
Piano music. A Philip Glass inspired track - dramatic and passionate, yet reflective and romantic. Perhaps depicting wwo lovers longing for each others powerful embrace, this piano duet deals with sorrow, hope, emotion, nostalgia and past events. Good film score / drama underscore for personal stories, real people and emotions. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 101 BPM]
Stately classical, piano, cello & oboe. Achievement, regal, romantic. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 89 BPM]
Emotive and warm track build on a slow and vaporous piano accompaniement sustained by strings and a touch of electronic drums. Good for Production / Film Scores. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 118 BPM]
Mellow and reflective folk/americana with piano, acoustic guitar and humming vocals. Dreamy / Nostalgic / Relaxed. [Tempo: Slow / 86 BPM]
A sad and emotional track in the style of Ennio Morricone that will work for scenes of love, yearning and beseeching. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 55 BPM]
A very positive, happy, guitar driven, contemporary pop/rock track with a universally appealing and highly commercial sound. Excellent for daytime TV, home and leisure, holiday, grown-up, teen and young adult programming and much more. [Tempo: Medium / 92 BPM]
