Part of our series of articles on how to create a guided meditation

Unless you are fortunate enough to be a music composer yourself, you will need to either:

a. Select some royalty free music, or
b. Have original music composed and produced for you.

Read on as I explain the pros and cons of these two options.

Quick reminder: As I mentioned in this article about recording your voiceover, whenever possible you should organize background music for your guided meditation BEFORE you visit a recording studio. This will save you plenty of hassles (and repeat visits to the studio) when the time comes to record your guided meditation.

Royalty free music is a popular choice for guided meditation productions.

What is Royalty Free Music? "Royalty free" means that when you purchase the music you need for your production, you pay a one-off fee only. You can then use that royalty free music to create and sell as many guided meditation CD’s or MP3’s as you like, without ever having to worry about paying any ongoing royalties.

The company or person that you bought the royalty free music from retains the copyright to the music (but not to your guided meditation - that's all yours) and can sell the same background music to another person.

Where to find Royalty Free Music
There is plenty of royalty free ambient music and royalty free new age music on the internet these days. Unfortunately, much of this music is not really suited to the needs of professional meditation and hypnosis productions. Why? Well there are three main reasons:

1. Quite often this music is only available as short loops (anything from 90 seconds to 5 minutes or so).

2. The person(s) who created the music usually have no experience in meditation themselves, and;

3. The music is part of a library of tracks that are destined for use in a wide range of generic applications, such as TV, radio and online video productions.

As a result, most of the royalty free music that is listed under the categories "meditation" or "hypnosis" is really just short tracks of new age music that would probably be more at home in a TV commercial than as background music for a professional guided meditation!

As you and I both know, when it comes to guided meditations and hypnosis productions, a nice long piece of super relaxing music is usually required.

With that in mind, please allow me to introduce you to Royalty Free Meditation Music.com. This website showcases a wide selection of music compositions that I have created especially for meditation, hypnosis and relaxation. You'll find plenty of soothing tracks in lengths of around 15 minutes, 30 minute and 60 minutes.

As a long time meditator and meditation music composer, I take great pride in the music I create for guided meditations. It’s something I am very passionate about, because I know that my music becomes a part of a healing experience that may touch many lives. I've helped many meditation teachers, holistic healers and hypnotherapists create guided audio productions over the years.

Click here to visit Royalty Free Meditation Music.com and explore my range of soothing background music.

Perhaps you want to have sole ownership of the music that is used in your guided meditation.

If so, then original music composition is for you.

Original music composition costs quite a bit more than royalty free music, but for many people the feeling of exclusivity and uniqueness that comes from having music composed just for you is very hard to beat.

It can also make your guided meditation come across as being more authentic and attractive to potential customers if you are able to print the words, “With original music composed by...” on your CD.

It’s an exciting and rewarding experience to work with a composer, and to hear your own guided meditation music come to life.

As an ambient music composer, I specialize in composing music for guided meditations. So whether you are looking for deep meditation music, nature meditation music, general ambient music, spiritual meditation music, hypnosis music or healing music of any kind, it would be my pleasure to compose the music that you need. Click here for more info about music composition...



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