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Singing About Our Relaxation Music Library

June 30, 2014 by Guy Lewis

The largest focused relaxing music library available in today, all cloud based ready to download and play with our unique innovative download music player. The 'iTunes'® of the business background music market.

The largest focused relaxing music library available in today, all cloud based ready to download and play with our unique innovative download music player. The ‘iTunes’® of the business background music market.

Melody Pods has more relaxing music than any other royalty free music library available for background music in businesses.

We have a great collection of artists and also produce our own music to enhance the library and make sure there is a good mix of music to meet client’s needs.

With commissioned music we can give clients a far deeper connection to the music that works within their business. If you find a piece of music doesn’t fit for any reason, we have the ability to feed that back to the artist and where available, we can have a track remixed or re-arranged to meet your needs.

This level of fine tuning isn’t available to libraries who’s aim is to maximise the number of tracks available. Maximising the number of tracks in a library only means you spend more time finding the right tracks to meet your needs. Why not turn it around, define a music collection based on your brand values and your target market and lets then get that collection together for you to leverage your brand further in its sensory connection to your customers.

Do you have a music design in mind? We would be pleased to chat through your requirements.

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Filed Under: Music Production Tagged With: Music for massage, music for meditation, music for spas

Remastering and Topping Up With New Spa & Massage Music

August 17, 2013 by Guy Lewis

Music Production With Logic ProAt Melody Pods we go the extra mile for our clients. We have our heads down right now (hence why we’ve been quiet for a while with posts and new articles) whilst we remaster and top up our library with a few more spa massage music productions of even more relaxation music for a new client.

Melody Pods has more ambient relaxing music than any other royalty free music library available for background music in businesses. We have a great collection of artists and also produce our own music to enhance the library and make sure there is a good mix of music to meet client’s needs.

If you have a network of locations you need a simple and affordable background music solution for, please get in touch with us now. We would be pleased to chat through your requirements.

Filed Under: Music Production Tagged With: Music for massage, music for meditation, music for spas

The Art Of Creating Relaxation & Meditation Music

August 8, 2013 by Guy Lewis

Relaxing Spa Album ArtworkRelaxation and meditation music is one of the most important music styles available to us today. Quite simply, this music is designed to help people relax and in some cases assist in the healing process. Arguably, no other genre or music style creates  as much of a healthy affect on the majority of people. Styles differ within regions and cultures around the world however the principle same guidelines below will suit most needs.

Whilst each of us chooses the type of music we love and in some cases people choose energetic music, and even styles such as heavy metal as their relaxation music of choice, in general we tend to find soft sounds with slow tempos work better for us.

In a four part series I want to set out how to create relaxation music. Through licensing thousands pieces of relaxation music to therapists and businesses in the wellbeing markets I have learnt what features of music work well to assist relaxation.

Part 1: Getting Started; Themes & Resources

Themes for inspiring the composition

Like with any music, a theme or idea creates the driving force for the creativity. Emotions and feelings tend to be a common driver for musicians composing for pop and rock tracks, if you think of many of the well know tracks over the past fifty or more years, love along with the ups and downs of relationships always provide a great resource for composers.

So for inspiring relaxation, essentially a mood or physical state itself, a composition needs to be driven from similar feelings and experiences. Clearly a composer who has just been involved in an argument of some kind isn’t going to be in the best position to create relaxing music. Likewise, someone who has just heard sad news perhaps will be feeling too melancholy to create relaxing music and will instead create something melancholy even if it is slow and soft in nature.

So if they are not good sources or drivers for relaxation music, what are? Feelings and experiences associated with relaxation can for many include happiness, but not excitement, nature, calm weather, bright sunny days, peaceful environments and situations, friendships and harmony in many situations and environments from a simple situation such as a quite café to a field of grass gently blowing in the wind. Nature of course is a great source for relaxation.

Resources for creating the music

Creating relaxation music requires instruments that lend themselves well to forming sounds and melodies that inspire relaxation. Obvious examples will include the flute that can create floaty natural sounds as opposed to a guitar set up to create distorted ‘abrasive’ sounds.

In addition environmental sounds such as wind, waves, water and animal sounds may be useful as long as they don’t too startling. Also see the composing section about the careful use of nature sounds that may not be as useful as you might think.

Examples of instruments that can be the core to a relaxation composition include:

Instrument Press play to listen to sample:
Soft Piano: https://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/soft-piano.mp3
softer piano: http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/softer-piano.mp3
Bass: http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/simple-bass.mp3
softer bass: http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/softer-bass.mp3
Strings http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/strings.mp3
Tuned Percussion: Marimba http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/marimba.mp3
Chior: “ohhhh” http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/oohhhh.mp3
Chior “haaa” http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/haaaaa.mp3
Guitar: plucked http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/plucked%20guitar.mp3
Guitar: Strummed http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/strum%20guitar.mp3
Tuned Percussion: Chimes http://www.melodypods.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/chimes.mp3

Instruments you will less likely see within a relaxation track include the following although there are always exceptions and ways in which a sympathetic musician can make almost any instrument create a relaxing sound.

Violin: because it is more likely to produce high frequency sounds that don’t feel relaxing.

Brass: because brass often is deep and ‘ominous’ sounding, or is lively, Sure there are many examples of chilled trumpet playing but this tends to engage the mind rather than relaxes.

Drums: because a beat, again, will tend to engage and stimulate rather than relax. Of course percussion and drums are often used in chill out and downtempo music styles in great ways to form the backbone of relaxing music but for here we are focusing on very relaxing music, rather than music to chill to.

Next in the series is part 2 which covers composition and arrangement requirements for our relaxation music.

Filed Under: Music Production

The Myth Of Musicians Earning From Background Music In Business

July 31, 2013 by Guy Lewis

I recently commented on an article at CD Baby which is a business set up to resell independent artists’ music to consumers. Their article mentioned how musicians should sign their music to performing rights societies to collect earnings from licenses for use in businesses as background music.

However the reality is very different for independent artists.

Performing rights organisations simply make the best guess they can on what is being played within hundreds of thousands of businesses to distribute the net earnings of licenses. They make an assumption that the top popular artists are most likely being played and pay them the majority of the earnings.

So if a smaller independent artist even knows their music is being played in a local retail store for example it won’t make much of a difference because there isn’t a way to feed back accurate usage reports.

The best thing artists can do if they want to earn from background music is to deal with a business such as Melody Pods who can be sure of where their music is used for valuable commercial
background music usage.

Filed Under: Music Production Tagged With: background music, Cd baby, PRO

Music and Learning: Infographic

July 11, 2013 by Guy Lewis

With the publishing of our background music licensing infographic I have come across a few interesting music related infographics on the web. Here is one relating to how music can aid learning.

Music Influences learningThis interesting infographic was sourced from The Plaza College.

Please click on the image to view the full sized version. The infographic details the research on how the brain responds to music and thus how music can benefit an education environment.

In the context of a business environment this information can show how, if you have products and services that require explanations to clients, such as services or technology, then music can help customers be in the right frame of mind to absorb more detail about their purchases.

Filed Under: Music Production

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