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 warm, intimate music track full of reflection appropriate for love, sadness, wandering, inspiration, or soul-searching. Captures warmth and grandeur. [Tempo: Slow / 130 BPM]
Slow tempo, ambient indie rock track with an uplifting and ethereal feel. Features an epic echoing guitar riff, backwards guitar lines and driving bass guitar and drums. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
Delicate, quaint, lightly romantic / nostalgic piano. Great as underscore for family oriented film/video. Comforting, warm, kind-hearted. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Soft and sweet solo piano. Innocent and emotional. Great for children and new borns, nature, family, togetherness, love, kindness. Works well for wanting to bring happy tears to the eyes. [Tempo: Slow / 62 BPM]
Warm and cosy Acoustic Guitar track. Friendly and relaxed, wholesome and homely. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 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]
Positive, feel-good guitar rock. Good forward drive, but not too heavy. Some passages include a celtic sounding, cheerful melody line. Appealing, projecting high spirits and great adventures. [Tempo: Fast / 125 BPM]
A very warm and touching, understated, graceful music track of melancholy and warmth. Heartening / Tender Music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 66 BPM]
Reconciliation, forgiveness and hope. All these emotions are here in this track. Originally written for a scene in which a father visits the grave of his wife and son in a bid for atonement. A slow and touching piece that blends electric guitars, thick pads sounds with strings to create a powerful wall of sound. Great for montage sequences and for moving the story along without being too intrusive. The slow, gentle nature of the music makes it well suited to work underneath dialogue too. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
A suggestive track for mystery and intrigue. Piano and strings give this track a classic mystery feel, and can also work for contemporary drama. A story unfolding… all is not what it seems. [Tempo: Medium / 81 BPM]
Nice and catchy melody, piano, tambourine, female voice, ethno. [Tempo: Medium / 104 BPM]
Enchanting Mystical background music, suitable for background or underscores. It is slow-moving with a transparent sense of intrigue and mystical magic. Subtle music that you don't notice too much. Features rich soft chords on the piano with long floating clarinet melodies against harp and strings. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Lonely and exhausted - a feeling of hopelessness in the face of an unending challenge. But, will there be a breakthrough? [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
Tender yet with growing excitement, this track exudes innocence and nurturing. [Tempo: Medium / 96 BPM]
This is a haunting piece featuring 2 electric guitars. It is deliberately sparse to evoke feeling of isolation and despair. Hard to place this track in a specific "music genre". Folk? Ambient? Film score? Rock? Either way, it's an atmospheric piece, suitable for film and other media. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Retro early 2000’s style American girl pop/rock. Female vocals, pop rock instrumentation. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 110 BPM]
This track has an exponentially-rising energy level throughout, starting with low energy (just vocals, strings and piano) and working its way into a full band rock ballad. It will work well with reflective, sad, depressing, lonely, bittersweet, homesick or driving footage. Energetic guitars with a thumping bass line somewhere between pop and rock. The lyrics are all about losing control of yourself, feeling like you've turned into a monster, hating yourself and the choices you've made. A negative, evil or peer influence taking over the person you used to be. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
A romantic piece that suggests a feeling of determination. Features piano, strings and choir creating a lush texture. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 67 BPM]
Acoustic guitar composition, available with or without subtle percussion. Easy-going, relaxing and pastoral. Good for many types of media or background use. Has a sense of the natural world, nature and earth. Nice and easy, moderately positive in a relaxed way. [Tempo: Medium / 73 BPM]
Acoustic guitar mood music. Warm, impressionistic, relaxing with a slightly folky feel and a sense of the natural and true. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 81 BPM]
A contemporary, cinematic music track with an intriguing and captivating vibe. Featuring piano, strings, glockenspiel, atmospheric pads and orchestral percussion. Great for dynamic action scenes in films, TV and documentaries. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
A friendly and wholesome pop-rock track. Melodic and heartfelt, with acoustic and electric guitars. Great for popular media, film, drama, and much more. Happy, joyful and bouncy with a funky bridge. [Tempo: Medium / 91 BPM]
Erik Satie Gnossienne no. 3. Solo piano. Performed live in studio by renowned concert pianist Vadim Chaimovich. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
This is an upbeat indie/folk song about feeling lost and hoping to find something better in life. This is a male vocal driven song with lots of harmonies and catchy acoustic/banjo lead line. Also available in an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 165 BPM]
A slow and beautiful Folk song about a child's journey through life. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
Ambient, fragile, reflective Piano & Pads. Emotive, Passionate, Soaring. Wonderment / Epiphany / Awakening. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A delicate, atmospheric track of pads, piano, and strings and driving celeste, suitable for contemporary dramas like American Beauty. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 64 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]
An uplifting atmospheric track with piano, orchestra, pads, and melodic percussion. Great for inspirational family dramas, commercials, or corporate videos. [Tempo: Slow / 74 BPM]
Beautiful, moody, mellow, soothing guitar piece with an emotional air of nostalgia and positive memories to it. Tranquil, sentimental, serene, serious, epic, moving, heartwarming & passionate. Would suit cinematic / dramatic type projects. Powerful, inspiring, touching, atmospheric & spacious. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 137 BPM]
Romantic, slow and relaxed piano piece. Reflective, peaceful, dreamy, easy, romantic. [Tempo: Slow / 55 BPM]
A quirky, laidback and moderately happy Folk / Americana track. Relaxed, easy-going and wholesome, based on acoustic piano, acoustic guitar and soft pads, with simple percussion. Warm, simple, charming. [Tempo: Medium / 150 BPM]
Folk music from Argentina, in a jazz piano arrangement. Contrabass and piano duet playing an easy melody in a 3/4 rhythm. Acoustic, instrumental, Easy listening, hopeful feeling. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
A touching, warm and goodhearted composition with a mellow, close, reflective feel. [Tempo: Slow / 78 BPM]
Sombre Americana / Folk featuring acoustic guitar, piano and subtle strings. Haunting, thoughtful, solemn. [Tempo: Slow / 63 BPM]
Mellow and melancholic, loving and tender melody with soft soprano saxophone, piano and harp. Delicate, touching, highly suitable for use in drama, personal reflection, story telling. Nostalgic, beautiful, caring. [Tempo: Slow / 63 BPM]
A track someway between R&B and Hip-Hop, with a dramatic and romantic undertone. Perhaps a bit sad and melancholic, but hopeful at the same time. Sexy and sensual. Gated synths, beautiful melodies, soft drum beats. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
A dramatic and quietly commanding track that will work for scenes of conspiracy, suspicion and contemplation. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Op. 65, No. 2: Bondens Sang (Peasant's Song). Classical music performed and recorded by concert pianist Zelimir Panic, exclusively for Lynne Publishing. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Solnatt is a Norwegian word that means 'Night Sun' (roughly). Inspired by the northern midnight sun, this is a fragile and reflective piano piece, with hope and light mixed with melancholy. Highly suitable for use in film or other media or art, this track is somewhat inspired by the tender film music style of Thomas Newman. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A swaying, sensual surf rock / latin rock track with a Mexican or Southern Californian feel of the 60s-70s-80s. Influenced by Carlos Santana. Moody, surly, exotic, emotional and slightly mystical. Trumpet enters around 01:40. [Tempo: Medium / 108 BPM]
A dark and poignant underscore for film / drama. Gloomy, but with hints of hope. Touching, personal and introspective. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Very peaceful and relaxing track using soft piano, lush strings & spacey synth sounds. Has a gentle air of mystery & suspense to it & also slight melancholy but with hope. [Tempo: Slow / 55 BPM]
A creepy and eerie mystery/horror cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to an evil presence. Orchestral with piano, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
