Mood Music

I don't know whether it because I am getting older, but I seem to be getting into “Mood Music”. And what do I mean byMood music? The kind of music that is relaxing & soothing, where you wouldturn the lights down low, open a bottle of wine and relax in your favouritechair whilst listening to smooth nice music.


When I write this typeof music I start with a simple tune, add simple harmonies andcounter-harmonies, adding different instruments and gradually building it up. Itry to write original material, with an unique sound, but it’s harder to getpeople to understand what you are trying to do when you’re trying somethingdifferent.


I’m mainly inspired byBeatles and Bach: The Beatles were the first group to mix classical music withPop, with songs like Yesterday & Eleanor Rigby. But the classic style musicwas just a backing track, saying “Here!I have the simplicity of a pop tune and if you listen to the mix, there areinstruments in the background playing different melodies, blending in and out”. And Bach was very good at creating these kindof scores. If you listen to BrandenburgConcertos you'll understand whatI mean.


But as I write“Royalty Free Music”, mainly for charity, I realise that people want somethingthey can use to put on the web, or for videos - or maybe just a snippet for 20second adverts. So when I write my own versions of these types of piecesthey’re a little more simple, lending themselves quite well for this kind ofuse. It’s not expensive and most help charities such as TY GOBAITH – HOPE HOUSENorth Wales Children's Hospice, the local hospice to where I live in Conwy.





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Music For All

The Music industry is obsessed by the pop charts as that where the money is.

A fast buck, usually short lived. Mainly aimed at the very young with bubblegum music. Then there is the “artist”, the celebrity, which tends to be more important than the music.

To many people like me, who are perhaps out of touch with the modern music fashion of the day, and like writing music, we have a perception that there is no outlet for today's market. Or is there?

With modern technology today, many people are making projects either for social networking sites, personal videos and photo slideshows. Legally they are not entitled to use copyrighted music for public, educational or personal broadcasting. They therefore generally tend to require "Royalty Free Music" for them, so they are not leagally responsible for royalty feees for using other people's music.

When I look onto most Royalty Free sites they have what I call “default” music -mainly basic, unmelodic music, sounding a bit thin. With modern software, music loving-people, like me, can have a recording studio music package at an affordable price and create something with very reasonable sound quality, enabling us to make a new mix blend of sounds and music harmonies - perfect for home movies, websites, You Tube videos, photo slideshows, and so on.

I wanted some music for a family holiday themepark visit and as I could not find suitable music - so I wrote my own, which became “Funfair Fanfayre” (available to listen on www.royaltyfreemusic.me.uk).

It was ideal, fun carnival-type music for my project.I am sure that there are a lot of people like me who records there own stuff, and are not accepted by the industry elite because it not suitable for the present fashion. But I am also sure that there are many people who are (like I was) searching for music for different projects, both for business and pleasure. But with confusing royalty copyright laws, and with more and more people uploading things onto the internet - often using copyrighted material - it leaves them open to be sued, and also to be liable to pay a possibly large sum of royalty fees as well.

After all, it is only right that the people who created the sound should be rewarded.

With this in mind, I thought that the music I create (and also which others create) could be available for the use of the purchaser to use as they want, with no need to worry about Royalty laws. As they are my creations, it is therefore my right to offer this initiative to them.And so I created a new website, where people could choose to download inexpensive, well-made music pieces for a fraction of the cost that other Royalty Free sites are offering.

You can listen to the music on my webstie, and if you like them you can download from only £1.00 per track (compared with $10.00 or more on some Royalty Free sites)

The music on this site covers many genres and styles - from pieces full of fun, happy catchy tunes, to the relaxing, melancholy, soothing and also experimental. Ideal music for your projects.

Please feel free to check it out, let me know what you think - and if you're possibly inclined to do so, please get in touch if you would also like your pieces to be put forward for consideration to be added to out webstite catalogue:

www.royaltyfreemusic.me.uk

Thank you for reading.

Eirianlys.