Music Resources
Music for Multimedia Videos:
Premium Beat: Royalty-free tracks include shorts, loops, and stems for maximum customization. Super-flexible, unlimited use licenses.
Music Bed: Hundreds Of Real Artists with a plethora of styles: Ambient, Cinematic, Indie, Folk, Hip Hop, Rock…
Audio Jungle: Royalty-Free Music from a Global Community of Musicians.
Jamendo Licensing: 200,000 royalty-free tracks Music library for any project, all rights included.
YouTube Audio Library: "The YouTube Audio Library provides free music for videos you create. Some of the music is licensed under Creative Commons and requires attribution, but much of it does not. Click on the particular audio track you’re interested in to get the full details. All of the tracks are completely free to use in your church’s YouTube videos. The track owners have given YouTube full rights. You’ll need to go through the YouTube Studio to access and use the tracks. Remember, if you create a video on YouTube, you can embed it on your church’s site. This allows you to use the tracks on your website without violating any of YouTube’s rules." (YouTube Audio Library)
Free Music Archive: This royalty-free music collection allows searching by genre or popular music for the last week, month, or all time.
Ben Sound: Royalty-free music includes a free license with attribution.
ccMixter: Features samples and acapella vocal tracks from musicians, with free tracks for commercial use.
Incompetech: musical sound effects and longer samples of music by composer Kevin MacLeod. Collection is searchable by genre, feel, tempo, or length, or browsable in collections based on genre and mood.
Freesound: Free Sound includes a large collection of sound effects, including some licensed under CC0.
FreePD: This collection includes public-domain music as well as music and sounds from Kevin MacLeod, the composer behind Incompetech. In this collection, crediting MacLeod is not necessary.
Musopen: This collection of public domain music is searchable by composer, performer, instrument, style, or century.
Partners in Rhyme: This collection of royalty-free music and sound effects is available for commercial use, including a printable license.
Soundstripe: Royalty-free music with over three million songs available. Membership costs cover the price of licensing.
Premium Beat: Curated music library with free video assets and motion graphics.
Melody Loops: Find melodies for videos, presentations, and podcasts.
Hymns
Small Church Music is a compilation of copyright-free music. What is unique is that resource, Hymn Books, which allows users to choose from hymn books for different denominations. Many songs include lyrics, MP3 and/or MIDI files, and the score for a piano or organ. There are no copyright issues as all songs are public domain, and all performers have surrendered their copyright performance rights, so you can freely stream this music or utilize it in your videos.
The Hymnal Project - "In early 2017 a group of artists, arrangers, and liturgists, led by Peter Prochnow, was commissioned through the Michigan District, LCMS to create several new hymn arrangements based on the original music. These are intended to facilitate enhanced worship in a multitude of modern musical contexts. The spirit of the project is simple: Hymns are arranged with various instrumentations and made available free of charge, in the form of a lead sheet and reference recording, so whether you learn by reading or by hearing, you can easily implement these arrangements and modify for your context without cost." (The Hymnal Project)
Worship Workshop includes a list of hymns and songs as mp3 files, with performance rights waived. Songs can be filtered by theme and by church year season. The Worship Workshop also includes a useful section of resources on prayers and liturgy.