Singer Songwriter Music with Intimate Vocals

Singer songwriter music is a genre defined by the performer writing and singing their own material, usually with the voice and lyric out front and a guitar or keyboard arrangement supporting rather than dominating. It is a broad label: in this collection it stretches from contemporary folk and alt-country to pop and contemporary R&B shadings, with acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards and percussion under nearly every vocal. The common thread is intimacy, not a fixed sound.

Almost none; nearly every track in this collection has a lead vocal, with only about two percent instrumental. That is deliberate: the selection exists for creators who want a sung song with a person in it, not a bed. If your edit needs a wordless section, cut around the vocal using the intro, breakdown or outro of a song, or draw on instrumental collections elsewhere in the catalog for the underscore portions.

The artists are emerging independent singer songwriters such as Jetty Rae, Stephen Kellogg, From Indian Lakes, Brother Wild, St. Paul de Vence, and Lerin Herzer and Andrew Joslyn. Reference points tagged across the tracks include Colbie Caillat, Sara Bareilles, Jason Mraz, Ingrid Michaelson, Ryan Adams and Lorde, which places the collection between warm acoustic pop and moodier alternative writing. The dominant moods are love, happy and chill, with a smaller run of sad and dramatic songs.

Use the songs where you are not talking, and keep them low elsewhere. Tracks here average around three and a half minutes, so an intro verse can open a vlog, the chorus can lift a B-roll montage, and the outro can close it, with the level pulled well down under speech. Because acoustic and electric guitars and keyboards carry most arrangements, they sit under a voice more comfortably than dense production would.

These songs can be licensed for a client's lifestyle brand video: every track is cleared for commercial use under the license purchased, including client work, ads, monetized YouTube and social. Tiers run Individual, Indie Film, Small Business and Large Business, on Personal, Commercial or Music-as-a-Service plans, so a brand deliverable falls under a Commercial plan at the tier matching the business. Each license issued is perpetual for that finished deliverable, so the client keeps the right to run the video after your subscription term ends.