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)"
A mysterious and deep cinematic track featuring piano, synthesizers, atmospheric pads, guitars, bass guitar and percussion. Great for trailers, drama, movies and documentaries. [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
Pensive and thoughtful, reflective and emotional. Underlying anxiety in the first half builds to large emotional payoff and peaceful introspection at the end. Good for drama, romance, teen romance. This track is recorded with a real live philharmonic orchestra. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A very slow solo piano track, played live on an old upright piano with a nostalgic, aged sound. Melancholic but comforting, easy and relaxed. Introspective / Reflective / Dreamy.
[Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 54 BPM]A dark and pulsating blockbuster track, combining synth sounds with orchestral music. Suitable for movie scenes, thrillers, blockbusters, intense scenes and epic material. Cinematic / Heroic music / Amazement. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 125 BPM]
A dreamy, warm, heartening and delightful new-classical piece with harp and ambient pads. Beauty, grace, melancholy and tender emotions. Love / Family / Bedtime Music. [Tempo: Slow / 79 BPM]
Hopeful and positive music, with a strong achievement vibe. Track develops from a simple piano ostinato into a light-hearted confident vibe. Repetitive pulsing structure evokes a sense of purpose and progress. Great for corporate, advertising and storytelling. Very inspiring. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Meandering and reflective, gentle and still, calm and relaxing piano music with soft pads. Soothing, tender, touching and contemplative. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
A graceful, elegant neo-classical piece for storytelling and emotive content. A sense of movement, progress, motion. Timeless / Classic. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
A wide open musical soundscape featuring ambient guitars and textures. Pensive and thoughtful. Introspective. Intimate, but also with a distant feel. Good as an underscore for drama and film. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 86 BPM]
Beautiful, magical, spacey, calm, dreamy, surreal, hypnotic, trippy, ethereal and peaceful. Ambient pop instrumental, using piano, synths, strings and drums. Floaty momentum which transports you high, above the clouds. This track has an airy, summery feel to it. Would suit mystery / romantic / dramatic projects. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
Beauty / Grace / Flow. Heartening and warm music. Neo-classical, light orchestra arrangement, suitable as music for film, drama, TV and other media. [Tempo: Slow / 68 BPM]
Delicate and beautiful piano music, with a strong classical influence. Emotional and hopeful lullaby, with lots of heart-warming vibe. [Tempo: Slow / 69 BPM]
Cinematic pop / classic music crossover, with a somewhat mysterious feel, of intrigue and drama. Secrets and emotions. Classy, luxurious strings combined with piano and subtle electric guitar, big percussion. Understated, yet lavish and passionate music track. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 92 BPM]
Semi-orchestral, neo classical track with a sense of expectation, something stirring, something coming this way. A very cinematic and inspiring track that gives the listener a sense of something happening, a story unfolding, a new thing arriving. Positive and developing. [Tempo: Medium / 98 BPM]
An emotional, cinematic / pop musical piece, with dramatic strings, airy vocals, and marching drums. Builds strength and power to a intimate finish. Love / Glorius / Hopeful Music. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A touching, delicate and elegant 'noir' solo piano piece. Delicately flowing, with a sense of warmth and melancholy, tenderness and reflection. We have this as a normal clean piano version, and as a 'dusty old nostalgic piano sound' version. [Tempo: Slow / 72 BPM]
An orchestral cinematic mystery background track. Classic movie soundtrack / film score sound, with piano and orchestral elements create an eerie, suspicious, investigative feel. This rather dark and foreboding background music will go well with drama, mystery, crime, detective investigation, solving riddles, finding clues, or just following a developing story of intrigue and enigma. [Tempo: Slow / 78 BPM]
A developing, unfolding track that starts quietly and builds, builds, builds. A feeling of activity, awakening, springtime. Something stirring, growing, approaching. A great sense of amazement and wonderment. Piano, harp, strings and bells. [Tempo: Medium / 168 BPM]
A pretty and quaint piano piece, performed live on an old upright piano, with a nostalgic sound. Delicate and happy, in a relaxed way. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 59 BPM]
A light, mysterious and easy track made with percussion, in a style and sound similar to Thomas Newman. Will work well for scenes of the passing of time, or a story developing, progressing. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 110 BPM]
Atmospheric and Epic Chill-out / Progressive Ambient, with beautiful melancholic sound textures driven by a march like drum groove. Uplifting and inspirational. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 105 BPM]
Positive and emotional film score track with acoustic guitar arpeggio overture evolve into an epic orchestral chorus. Natural-sounding instruments with some electronic soft percussion groove and orchestral timpani hits and rises. Fantasy / Adventure / challenge / drama music. [Tempo: Slow / 67 BPM]
Reflective and intimate, cinematic ambient pop music, semi-orchestral, neo-classical. For film, video, stories and storytelling. Sad / Contemplative / Thoughtful / Memories. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
Harp, piano and cello work together to make this mysterious track come to life. Moments of wonder and magic simulate occasional discoveries. A mix of light and darkness, somewhat neutral; general background. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
A soaring, touching and emotional orchestral / film score type track. Full orchestra, growing to a crescendo / climax at 1 minute. Heartening, touching, emotional. Good for drama, personal stories, history and culture, and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 55 BPM]
A beautiful solo piano version of this classic composition. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A peaceful and sentimental piano track tinged with sadness. A heavenly sounding intro combines Harp and piano as the tempo descends to give a feeling of falling into peace, followed by bittersweet Piano chords that ebb and flow with light strings and harp effects. Great for use in daytime TV drama and also spiritual/religious scenes, especially anything heavenly - but equally well suited to triumph, gives a feeling of having overcome or to come through something. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
A beautiful uplifting track with piano lines, orchestral strings, guitars in the background. Starts warm and romantic, gets more dynamic and motivating at 0:40. [Tempo: Medium / 189 BPM]
Minimalist piano and synth, emotive and poignant, great for scenes of intense love and oneness. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 88 BPM]
Atmospheric indie music track with urgent sounding guitars that build into the chorus. Acoustic and slide guitars in the verse give track a thoughtful light feel. Looking back on Holiday / family / friends and memories. Country feel music. [Tempo: Slow / 115 BPM]
An emotional soundtrack piece, with dramatic strings, cinematic drums, and delicate synths. Dramatic, Raw, Powerful Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 83 BPM]
A cinematic pop music track, with a heartening, spirited, uplifting feel. Full of hope and heart. Inspirational / Motivational / Romantic Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 88 BPM]
An emotional and pensive piano track accompanied by violin, strings, cello and flute. It has a heartwarming and reflective mood with a hopeful feel. Emotive, delicate, nostalgic, deep in thought. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
Orchestral, cinematic, background music for drama and storytelling. Contemplative, questioning and mysterious. Thoughtful and introspective. Great music for a mystery drama, fantasy, crime drama, searching and contemplation. A brooding and intriguing story evolves. [Tempo: Slow / 79 BPM]
Emotional piano playing arpeggios throughout with subtle strings and synth pad. Great for projects of a serious and dramatic nature. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
A calm acoustic guitar lead track available with or without drums. Smooth, west coast / driving / summer sound. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 102 BPM]
Cutting edge collides with traditional sounds in this glitchy, dreamlike fusion of styles. Old meets new. Quirky. charming & poignant, it would suit science & technology, green issues, environment and modern drama. Similar in instrumentation and mood to the Dream Valley Music tracks, Speed of Night, Metallic Wasteland and Grace & Harmony. Please note: This track features deliberate digital glitches, odd scratchy sound effects. This is for effect, is done on purpose, and is not an error or problem with the file. A "no glitches" version is also available if you prefer it clean. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
Frederic Chopin Mazurkas, Op. 24 No. 1: Lento in G minor. Classical music performed and recorded exclusively for Lynne Publishing by concert pianist Želimir Panić. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Piano solo, an elegant waltz with an air of mystery. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
An uneasy, ambient rock music track with noir and electronic shades. Obsessive piano theme is gradually enriched with synths and groovy drum pattern that lead to a nervous and restless outro. [Tempo: Slow / 138 BPM]
A slow and beautiful song about a flourishing relationship. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 85 BPM]
Soft, ambient, beautiful relaxation music. Warm and soothing. Comforting and peaceful. Yoga / Mind Focus / Work Focus / Study Music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 70 BPM]
A lush, introspective piano track. [Tempo: Medium / 127 BPM]
A beautifully haunting, ambient track in the style The Dead Texan or Sigur Ros, featuring dreamy, hazy organ and vocal textures. Reflective, dreamy, heavenly, emotive. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
This electric piano based, self-reflective music track is slightly melancholy with touches of tender healing and inspiration. It has a vintage feeling conveyed with softly played electric and acoustic guitars, bells, bass, percussion, synth pad, and drums. Great music for body and mind wellness, recreation, relational drama, and intimate themes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 127 BPM]
Woodsy, swampy, emotive and funky, this slow-burn rock music track sounds loose and spontaneous, featuring a great example of in-the-pocket guitar playing. Joining this 4-string acoustic guitar, is electric slide guitar, drums and claps. This is a great bed for rural/country life programs: dramas, lifestyle, docs, cooking music, vlogs, voiceover, etc. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Giovanni Sgambati, Melody in D minor after 'Orfeo ed Euridice' by Ch. W. von Gluck. Performed live in studio by renowned concert pianist Vadim Chaimovich, exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A laidback pop / RnB track. Piano and acoustic guitar in this soft and thoughtful piece. [Tempo: Medium / 87 BPM]
A track with an open feel and bright strings. The track builds with staccato arpegiating strings to the main part with big yet open and distant drums and piano. Piano chords hit to and build to an even larger part with more big drums and sprinkling of high piano notes throughout. The track doesn't have a strong melody or definitive voice, which gives it a more open and airy feel. Great for commercials or scenes of transformation or accomplishment, perhaps everyday heroes, new hope etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 66 BPM]
A powerful male country song about learning life lessons in different ways. Available as a Vocal version and an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow / 76 BPM]
