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)"
This piece with echo like piano and atmosphere fits perfectly inside a cavernous wonder or a dream. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Lighthearted and positive acoustic tune. Strong country accent, with a lot of acoustic guitars. Beautiful melody, inspiring mood. [Tempo: Medium / 112 BPM]
This is a solo piano composition with a slightly dark and moody feel. Classical music vibe of a performance on a Grand Piano. [Tempo: Medium / 82 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]
This soft rock ballad is about helping a friend through some tough life issues. The lyrics discuss a frustration with watching their stubborn struggles and offering love and advice through their situation. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow / 132 BPM]
Starting with a plaintive echoed guitar, the tracks then progresses with synthesizer textures, electric piano and light percussion. For light, thoughtful and pensive moments. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 79 BPM]
Lyric about lost love done in a country style with Pedal Steel Guitar and b-bender electric guitar, vocal harmony, acoustic guitar, sadness, calm. Also available as an instrumental version; country ballad. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 116 BPM]
Tender and delicate, fragile, with acoustic guitar and soprano sax. Regretful, sad, longing, sorrowful. Loneliness, hurt. Also available in a version with only the acoustic guitar, without the soprano sax. [Tempo: Slow / 113 BPM]
A light dramatic track with a playful twist. This track featuring pizzicato strings and piano implies a sense of motion, curiosity, and innocence. Perfect for family dramas or documentaries featuring curious children, or busy housewives going about their daily domestics. [Tempo: Medium / 135 BPM]
A low key, sorrowful and nostalgic musical underscore. Piano and ambient texture. Good for drama and storytelling. Sad, touching. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A warm, contemporary heartfelt piano piece. In the style of einaudi, this has a strong emotive melody which slowly builds with the introduction of very subtle strings. Suitable as a documentary background piece, television or film where you are portraying life's story. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
A pretty and quaint, graceful and very slightly playful, neo-classical track based on piano and strings, with subtle acoustic guitar. Light and bright, but also with an emotional side. [Tempo: Medium / 136 BPM]
Emotional, soft and peaceful cinematic track with an ambient, atmospheric and soothing feel. Great for emotional film scenes, trailers, documentaries, and other audiovisual media. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 75 BPM]
Soft, slow, dreamy, ethereal, spacious, atmospheric, thoughtful, contemplative, nostalgic, magical, enchanted, sublime, somber, hypnotic pop piece with great sense of time, space & memory-inducing surreality to it. Float away as your thoughts engulf you. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 70 BPM]
This track is Jekyll and Hyde. The tense intro has techno beats and synth sequences which build in intensity until all hell breaks loose and the guitars enter with a hellishly ferocious and relentless riff. Contains synths, drum machines, guitars and bass. [Tempo: Medium / 127 BPM]
An orchestral string section unwinds a gentle, heartfelt harmony that builds to a single note. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 84 BPM]
A love song with catchy descending melodies throughout. The instrumental layers build up gradually and lead into a catchy chorus. Instruments include piano, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, male lead vocals and bass. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
An orchestra, cinematic film score of grandeur and amazement. Proud and soaring, with a classic Hollywood / Cinema sound. [Tempo: Medium / 74 BPM]
A melodic theme for orchestra and piano that suggests reminiscence or love. Reflective and peaceful music. Could be useful in a variety of contexts including love scenes, flashbacks, and scenes of bittersweet loss. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 112 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 melancholic and moving drama piece for strings and piano with an American folk feeling to it. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 130 BPM]
A acoustic, folk type track with a slight ethnic, mysterious, or world feeling. Perhaps something eastern, northern africa, or a far-away adventure. Great as underscore for travel, cultural program, etc [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Acoustic/Electric, light rock with emotive melodies and a melancholic, emotive mood. Heartfelt / Sincere / Hopeful. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 110 BPM]
This song is about waking up and dusting yourself off after defeat. Its about realizing who you are and who you should be. It would be suitable for an inspirational movie or tv episode on Disney, Lifetime, or other types of motivational programming. It is full band and very anthemic. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium / 86 BPM]
Calm, soothing, beautiful solo piano performance by Dmitriy Lukyanov. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
Mysterious, mystical and foreboding Arabian or Persian textures. Nervous underscore with a Middle Eastern flavor. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Orchestral piano and string with light instrumentation, guitar and light percussion, real bass guitar. This track feels emotional and positive. Expecting positive change and blends world with pop and classical elements to help put the exclamation point on your ad or product. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
Lighthearted pop tune. A cello, a nylon-string guitar and a piano take turns in playing the main melody, over drums, acoustic guitars and fretless bass. Ideal mood for nature, travel, health, children and other light, fresh and positive videos. [Tempo: Medium / 93 BPM]
Fast tempo cue with a nod to the non-stop action-filled cartoons of yesterday. Full orchestra with standout playfulness. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 120 BPM]
A warm and progressive royalty free music track which mixes elements of ambient electronica with rock. The track builds from a gentle start to a full and edgy climax which is then followed by a softer ending. Emotional and hopeful, perhaps feelings of love and reflection. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 113 BPM]
Stately classical, piano, cello & oboe. Achievement, regal, romantic. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 89 BPM]
Beautiful, magical, atmospheric, dreamy & tranquil piano & strings track. Soft, simple, calm, relaxing, reflective, soothing, wondrous with a slight air of melancholy, nostalgia & longing. Would suit cinematic / dramatic / romantic / documentary type projects. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
Magical harps and strings elevate a simple woodwind melody. A gentle transition or revelation. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow / 96 BPM]
Smooth and relaxed, solo piano jazz. [Tempo: Slow / 93 BPM]
Soft, soothing, mellow, atmospheric, slow, calm and beautiful. Like floating on a bed of clouds high above the earth, not a worry in the world. Sounds a little like Jeff Beck crossed with Pink Floyd. Contains guitars, bass, drums and strings. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 93 BPM]
This song is told from the perspective of a wallflower. This person witnesses two potential lovers, neither one has the confidence to approach each other. This is a reflection of all the potentially life changing situations we often pass up due to our lack of faith in ourselves. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 175 BPM]
This is a progressive and climactic rock track that gradually builds from the sound of clean, sparkly guitars to a big and building climax. Packed with emotion and warmth. [Tempo: Slow / 93 BPM]
Pensive, sinister, apprehensive, sneaking, waiting. Dramatic underscore that provides nerve and tension to film, crime, investigation, stakeout, horror or dark mystery. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
An upbeat, contemporary Rock / Singer-Songwriter song about always being there for someone the singer loves. Available as a Vocal version and an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Soft, thoughtful, delicate, spacious, sedate, dreamy & beautifully atmospheric track blending plucked strings, piano, cellos & violas. Calm, sublime, peaceful, ethereal, mysterious, moody & reflective. Slightly melancholic and with a hint of winter. Would romantic / dramatic / spy / cinematic type projects. [Tempo: Medium / 126 BPM]
A fresh and uplifting pop-electronica crossover track. Very gentle and friendly with appealing piano melodies and an upbeat but fairly soft electronic drums rhythm. An ambient mix is also available, without the drums for a more floating background feel. A wonderfully positive, feelgood track. [Tempo: Fast / 134 BPM]
A sweet and bitter piano solo piece with an intimate feel. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
A reflective and thoughtful underscore for drama and storytelling. Just the slightest hint of melancholy behind an essentially hopeful and touching piano theme; with strings and subtle percussion. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
Don't look behind you! A very dramatic piece. Wave upon wave of synths and sequences....All interwoven together to make one rather dark and stormy soundscape. Small pulsing verse section then a major dynamic lift-off for the chorus parts. Contains synthpads , effected drum kits , drum machines , synth basses and intense guitar melodies in the final section. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
This is an upbeat electronic, male vocal driven pop song about knowing someone who is hooked on drugs and needs to stop. Very emotional lyrics and catchy melodies. Also available in an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium / 115 BPM]
Romantic, poignant, reflective R&B piece, played with piano, strings, synthesizers and drum beats. Good for drama, personal reflection, sadness, lost love, perhaps regret or memories of loved ones, all with an urban touch. [Tempo: Slow / 95 BPM]
An ambient and chilled out track with a cool acoustic drum beat. This track has a sense of purpose and builds towards a more emotive climax with a moving string section. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 76 BPM]
A slowly swaying guitar rock ballad. Moody, atmospheric, rich and with a blues music feel. Introspection, reflection, contemplation music. Kindness, connection. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 60 BPM]
Mid 2000’s style female singer/songwriter style track. Obsessive love leads to a bit of temporary madness, just a little. Acoustic guitars, drum loops, half time shuffle feel. Keywords: Addiction, relationships. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Romantic and sentimental composition with piano and atmospheric pad. Emotional music track with an inspirational touch. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 75 BPM]
