Listen to our Best Royalty Free Guitar Music
We know the right song can make or break your project. That’s why every track in our library is vetted by award-winning producers. Hear for yourself. We've curated a playlist with our best royalty free guitar music.
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How To Create Any Mood Or Tone With Royalty Free Guitar Music
Almost every YouTube channel has videos with guitar-driven music. It’s a pretty popular style for a reason — the instrument has a long history, a lot of ethnic/regional diversity, and the ability to be both complex and simple.
But when we talk about royalty free guitar music for videos, you probably think of one of two things: beachy acoustic and classic rock.
That couldn’t be further from the truth.
Well, technically, those are two directions you can go with it. But the guitar is perhaps the most adaptable instrument in use today, and knowing how to create different moods can help you get the most out of the music you put in your video projects.
Evolution Of The Modern Guitar
The history of the guitar is almost as long as recorded human history, which means there’s too much to cover here. But the important takeaways are that the oldest stringed instruments date back around 3,000 years to the Middle East (specifically Mesopotamia and Babylon), and that the modern concept of a “guitar” first started to take shape in Middle Age Spain.
Back in the mid-1800s, a man named Antonio de Torres Jurado first started changing the size, shape, and structure of guitars to get away from ye olde medieval lute. And once famous musicians like Andres Segovia (another Spaniard) started performing with the new and improved instrument, guitars joined the classical music family.
You may not have time to watch a full history lesson, but this video details (and illustrates) the evolution of stringed instruments
All it took was a little bit of popularization and suddenly the instrument took off. But even before those developments, the guitar family of instruments was already an important part of human history.
As a folk instrument, guitars are used around the world in some form or another. Whether you listen to Chilean music, Irish music, or Mongolian music, you’ll recognize variants of the guitar. That extends to country, blues, reggae, and flamenco — all cultural music styles that rely on the guitar because of its simplicity, its versatility, and its portability.
Guitar Uses Across Music Genres
If you’re looking for royalty free guitar music for video projects, you probably don’t want international music or cultural guitar performances.
(Although, to be fair, you’re missing out on some of the most intricate guitar performances, but that’s more a YouTube rabbit hole than a resource for your filmmaking.)
Here’s a look at how guitars are used in music genres around the world
Moving away from classical and folk music, guitar is just as well-represented in other more modern genres. Jazz, ska, and big band music all leverage stringed instruments and helped guitar stay relevant even as the world transitioned to our current pop music era.
And of course, we can’t look at the influence of guitar on music without pointing out rock and roll. Rock music may have begun as a collective of different genres, but there’s no room for doubt or debate: the guitar has come to define rock music, and much of American culture as well.
All of this accentuates why the guitar has stayed relevant: It’s sound quality has become more and more versatile over time.
Modern royalty free guitar music takes advantage of things like electric guitars, effect petals, digital editing, and percussive elements. A single guitar can craft just about any kind of mood you might want, and it can do that without any additional/supporting instruments.
One guitarist can craft a melancholy dirge that brings you to tears, a calming melody perfect for the beach, or a filthy solo that makes you sweat just from hearing it. That’s part of why the instrument is so popular around the world, and why guitar music is such a valuable tool for content creators looking to build a specific “feeling” with their videos.
Where To Get Royalty Free Guitar Music
Guitar music is a great fit for most video projects. But the reality is that finding high-quality songs can be a real pain for creators and filmmakers.
Even if you know exactly what you’re looking for, you might spend 10 hours browsing different sites and listening to terrible songs that might as well have been recorded in your neighbor’s garage. Or worse: You find the perfect song...but you don’t have the budget for licensing fees.
That’s a reality that too many creators face.
Unless you’re a music producer in addition to a filmmaker, licensing music for your video is a necessary part of the job. So if you want to protect your work from DMCA strikes and copyright infringement claims, you absolutely must license other creators’ work that you use.
Even if it’s a legal download, you’ll need something to prove you’re okay to use it. That’s why you need royalty free guitar music.
Rather than wasting your time or money negotiating a license from an independent artist, royalty free music companies — like Soundstripe — do all that work for you. All of our songs are wholly owned, meaning that any license from Soundstripe will protect your work forever. No haggling over fees, no delayed royalties, and no license expiration dates.
It really is that easy. You browse our library, find a radio-quality song you love, tell us about your project, and get a license. After that, all you have to worry about is dropping that song into your project timeline.
Accessing those songs is easy. By signing up for a Soundstripe subscription, you’ll get access to thousands of songs immediately. More importantly, you’ll have unlimited access — you can license, download, and use as many songs as you need for your projects.
You already know how great guitar music is, and why you should be using royalty free music in your video projects. Using a resource like Soundstripe is a simple and affordable way to get music you want without sacrificing sound quality or copyright reliability.
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