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3:43 video on Dano Songs, a GREAT source for high quality Royalty Free Music on a budget. All of us interested in creating online videos are looking for good sources of royalty free music. Of course music is one of the best and easiest storytelling elements at any video makers disposal.
Royalty free music is a type created specifically for people doing lower-budget video productions and other multimedia projects that benefit from the addition of music. Music you hear on the radio can’t be used unless you pay licensing fees which can be huge, especially if the song is popular. Cadillac can afford to license Led Zeppelin for their commercials but most of us can’t! Royalty Free music is what’s used. Royalty free doesn’t mean fee free though, some R.F tunes can run 60 bucks or so for a basic track.
Today’s blog post shares a wonderful royalty free music resource online that comes to us from a gentleman named Dan O’Conner who lives in New York. He’s dedicated to helping online video producers with their music needs for much less than the standard prices.
A multi-talented musician and composer, Dan has about one hundred royalty free songs he’s composed on his blog right now that you can download. He tells me he’s adding more every day! Now, Dan offers them with a very liberal, user-friendly license. Basically, to use his songs in any video, podcast, game or whatever, commercial or personal, all you need to do is either give him credit in your production plus a link back to his site, or if you want to use it without doing that, pay just 10 bucks per track. Either way, it’s a great deal!
I must confess that I had a great time making this video today about Dano Songs because it was so much fun listening to the music. If you watch the video, you’ll get to hear about twenty examples of Dan’s fine work.
I’m sure this awesome resources will help you make better videos.
I asked Dan in an email interview what motivates him to do this.
I want to help people, organizations and businesses who are doing YouTube videos, apps, indie films, self-producing games, etc. and can’t afford the very high prices of stock music.
I started this site several years ago as a place to post a few tracks I recorded as a singer/songwriter. Then one day I added some instrumentals I created for fun. Since then the requests from visitors for music for YouTube videos, games, indie films, and slideshows has been non-stop.
Now I post new MP3s on my blog every day. Since I was a Music Business major in college I knew just what to do to set up a very user friendly license. If you have questions about using the music you can read the License FAQ on my blog.
Dan is a graduate with a Bachelor of Music, Music Business, from the Hartt School of Music, Professional Degree, Jazz Guitar and Vocals, Hartford Conservatory of Music.
I appreciate Dan letting me review his site.  I truly had fun listening to all the great music. I am glad to be able to pass excellent resources on to my readers so please enjoy!
Lorraine Grula
Internet Video Gal
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