Christmas Music and Video Resources
Christmas Audio Round-up
It is never too early to get started on your Christmas marketing campaigns and with that in mind we have created this year's...
Free Christmas Music: Public Domain Bach and Verdi... Just in time for your Christmas multimedia projects we have made available for download the Bach Brandenburg Concerto 6 mvt 1, Bach Three Part Inventions Sinfonia II, III,...
12 Websites with Free Stock Video Footage Free royalty free stock footage is hard to find but we have compiled a list of some of the better sites that are offering a selection of video clips available for download...
Christmas Audio Round-up It is never too early to get started on your Christmas marketing campaigns and with that in mind we have created this year’s list of Christmas audio resources from Partners In Rhyme to will help you get your yuletide projects done quickly, legally and inexpensively during this holiday marketing rush.
This list includes all of our free resources as well so read carefully.
You get a variety of all-time classics including Away In The Manger, Little Drummer Boy, Joy To The World and many more plus a bonus track of the Wedding March. Full length tracks are provided as well as a variety of short loops edited from each of the tracks.
This is a huge collection of royalty free Christmas music. We have gathered all types of genres from hip hop and techno to full symphony orchestras and choirs.
Available in NTSC and PAL these background video loops are perfect to use in the background of your Christmas video intros or as video background to voiceovers.
They are all free for you to download and use in your commercial projects.
Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic liturgical chant in Western Christianity that accompanied the celebration of Mass and other ritual services.
These 4 beautifully performed chants are available for free on my blog and will give your project a distinctly religious feel.
Just wanted to send out a big thank you to the Partners In Rhyme programming team at Harvest Technologies.
We’ve come to rely on Guru and the team to realize all of our ideas and help update our websites and keep things running smoothly. Whenever we receive a feature request from our clients (which we do quite often) we immediately contact Guru and see if we can implement the idea.
We’re particularly proud of our latest website at http://www.naturemusicdownload.com/ which the guys did a great job from design and functionality to coding and implementation.
A friend of mine sent me a link to Finalight.com which is a new website that sells VFX stock footage. For those of you that may not be familiar with the term VFX is short for ‘visual effects’ and is used to describe all the computer generated effects you see in films these days.
Finalight.com sells elements like smoke, fire, shockwaves and explosions that you can use to add to your video or film project. You need basic compositing knowledge to add the effects to your project but the guys at Finallight have made it pretty easy by providing masks and well-filmed or computer generated elements.
They have three elements available on their site here http://www.finalight.com/-/maindir/webpages/STHANKS.php
So you can test them out to see if you want to purchase anything from their library.
I purchased a flame effect and added it to a quick VFX test I am working. Take a look here
Adding audio to your website or blog post isn’t always as simple as it sounds. I put together a quick tutorial using my favorite little plug ‘n’ play flash embed code for adding a nice looking audio to player to a web page or blog post.
Here is an example of the player:
Instructions:
1. Upload the music to your server in MP3 format. If the MP3 file exists on a server somewhere else you just need to grab the URL of that file (but remember if the owners of the server change the location of that file your embedded music will no longer work).
There’s a very funny and very informative conversation going on regarding performing rights organizations like BMI, ASCAP and in this case PRS going after people singing to themselves at work (?!?!?).
Halloween Music and Sound Effects Here’s a quick list of our scariest audio resources for any of those last minute Halloween type projects you might be working on.
Happy Halloween!
Mystery & Suspense Mysterious pads and voices, exotic percussion and instruments fill this royalty free music collection called Mystery and Suspense.
Check out ‘I’m Watching You’ for a subtly suspenseful background track or ‘Unclear’ for mysterious underscore using harp and strange swelling pads.
Horror! A royalty free collection of horror background music, horror hits and scary sound effects.
Use this horror background music library, halloween sound effects and scary Sounds to make your website, film, video or Halloween party a big, scary sounding event.
Scary Sound Effects Alien Monsters breathing, groaning and sneering plus creaky doors and recordings of ghosty ectoplasm (these are really hard to find let alone record)
This collection of 93 high quality horror sounds effects includes monsters, bats, creaks, heartbeats, soundscapes and screams.
260 Horror Music Soundtracks Download individual music tracks from our Horror and Suspense genre on www.musicloops.com. There’s a huge variety of scary music here.
Human Sound Effects Screams, grunts, coughs, sneezes, eating, chomping, breathing, vomiting, kissing, it’s all here for you to download and add to your projects.
An incredible collection of 445 human sound effects for you to use in your music, films, TV, video, websites or just about anything you can think of.
We have uploaded two new pages of free video background loops to our growing collection of free video loops. The new pages include 12 romantic video loops with lots of hearts and flowers plus 10 corporate video background loops with lots of charts, globes and team building images.
They are available in full rez and in both NTSC and PAL formats. You can use these video loops as backgrounds in your personal and commercial projects completely free of charge (you are not allowed to repost, redistribute or resell these clips without syncing them into your own projects first).
Sound design your fake street fights with Punch ‘n’ Stab
Have fun with your friends and frighten complete strangers with these powerful sounding punches and super-gory sounding knife wounds.
The sounds are triggered by throwing ‘air punches’ and ‘air stabs’.
Simply hold your iPhone sideways with the screen up and thrust forward to trigger the power punch sound effect.
Then hold your iPhone forward, like a knife, with the screen up and thrust forward to hear the steal-y slash of metal connecting with a gory flesh wound.
The punch and stab sounds alone are pretty cool but what is a good street fight without some great action music?
The Punch ‘n’ Stab app also comes with a music soundtrack menu to choose from a list of real action movie soundtracks.
You get:
’70’s Cop Show’ for that Starsky and Hutch type TV drama
‘Mission Incredible’ for that super-spy action movie vibe
‘Heavy Rock Action’ soundtrack for all you metal-heads out there.
We’ll be adding more functionality and music choices in future upgrades.
Besides all of the free royalty free music we give away for personal and commercial use here http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/free_music_loops.shtml
we also like to point you to other websites and blogs that offer free royalty free music. Here are three composers that I ran across today:
Taylor Howard http://www.taylorhayward.org/recordings.htm
Some very nice ambient / classical piano recordings from Taylor Howard with wide-open, copyright-free terms for use:
“The music on this site is: free to download and play, free to rebroadcast in any form for any purpose, free to play in public, free to publish for profit, and free to sample.
There is no copyright on this music.
If you can think of a creative way to use this music, you have my full support.”
Bill Cushman http://ghostnotes.blogspot.com/
This talented is offering his beautiful piano pieces for free use in personal and commercial project. You need to contact the composer before using music.
Derek Audette http://derekaudette.ottawaarts.com/music.php
A collection of free royalty free music from Derek Audette. Although most of the tracks are very midi sounding there are some interesting and usable pieces here:
“There is no charge or licensing fees associated with the use of any of these songs for any reason. I only ask that if you use them in a production in which you are able to give credit, (such as closing credits in a video or film production) that you do provide the proper credit in your production. ”
We have uploaded two new pages of free video background loops to our growing collection of free video loops. The new pages include 
