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Orchestral Comedy is another outstanding album by composer Francisco Becker. The album’s tracks cover the gamut of comedic range, from screwball scenes to the tongue-in-cheek, and even suspenseful comedy is covered. Pratfalls? Check. Mockumentary? Sure thing. Whatever style of comedic score your scene requires, you’ll find it on Orchestral Comedy. Some of the many notable tracks on this royalty-free album include:

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Intros (which are also exits) are the bookends of a video or video game. They provide a sense of continuity, much like a fiction story in which the first line is the same as the last line. Bumps, on the other hand, serve the same purpose but are used between scenes - a hard edge that quickly reinforces that something new is about to happen. And of course, stingers are essentially 1-3 second sound clips used to emphasize what was just said in the video or game (“Doh!”)

It can be hard to find Suspenseful Intros, Bumps and Stingers, but with SmartSound’s royalty-free music search, much of that work can be done in seconds rather than hours. In seconds you can find great tracks that can be customized by length and mood to suit the needs of any suspenseful scene.

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Pop it Up

Snap, crackle, pop—that’s the sound of Effervescent Music! Check out the album GFGF—with its fantastic collection of music inspired by great food and great friends. Fun Ride is a powerful, refreshing and triumphant song with bluesy effects driven by electric guitar and a high-energy organ and piano.

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Epic Action-Drama – you know you love it. Intense orchestral tracks just beg to be released at that pivotal, story-defining moment in video games and movies alike, bringing the audience to the edge of their seats as effectively as any dialog could. With SmartSound’s award-winning technology and thousands of royalty-free music tracks, designers and videographers will have no problem finding just the right epic track for action-drama scenes.

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Oh Happy Day

Billboard music chart toppers often include music with a happy theme thanks to happy music’s ability to inspire, motivate and captivate an audience. Sensing happy music in the background allows the viewer to identify with a scene’s mood. There isn’t a movie made that doesn’t contain happy music at some point in the soundtrack.

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Smooth Music
Calm background music influences romance, western, Indie, outdoors, World and even ethereal scenes. Calm music is often serene, tranquil and relaxing. It leaves the spirit unruffled and feeling at peace. Though it’s not meant to instill suspense or intrigue, calm music can also precede scenes of absolute terror surprising viewers with the quick dramatic switch and be surprisingly effective.

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Screams Are Us
Movie producers love when viewers rip a scream or two out, grip the armrest, or otherwise squirm in their seats when viewing suspenseful scenes. And, contemporary tricks allow viewers to be more a part of the scene than ever before as special effects, 3D and more draw them into the drama, emotion and action. Suspenseful music is found in all types of productions, whether for a few moments or entire scenes. Keep your viewers intrigued with the seat-of-the-pants suspenseful music found only in SmartSound’s customizable music library.

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Consider thrilling and intense music when scoring scenes with drama and rising emotion. Intense background music offers a panorama of emotional cues as it moves seamlessly from tender, romantic intensity to poignancy and thrilling greatness.

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Sad memories are food for the soul and scoring scenes with sad music often lends an air of tragedy or depression to it. Unless there are a bunch of robots in your audience, scoring scenes with sad music might elicit a tear or two along with lonely, helpless, tender or even apocalyptic feelings.

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Slow it Down

Meditation music is ideal for creating earthy, ethereal or mystical themes for scenes needing background music specifically designed to enhance a quiet, delicate or touching moment.

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Composing a bright, cheery tune for an earthy, outdoorsy or even a world scene is a snap with Leisure Music soundtracks. Leisure music bounces along with a cool, refreshing vibe that wins the heart of all who hear it. Leisure music creates a warm, comfortable backdrop for many scenes.

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Movin’ and Groovin’
Watch people at a jam session when Relaxed Island Music is played and you’ll notice no one is sitting still. You can’t help but move and groove to the light, carefree and happy sounds of Relaxing Island Music. When you want to convey a cheerful, leisurely mood, consider adding a touch of relaxing island music and your audience will connect with it.

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Say it with Music

Upbeat Music, particularly when it features a versatile synthesizer, can knock a scene into outer space and beyond as it dials up effects that mimic horns, trumpets, grand pianos, marimbas, chimes and more. A truly talented synth player can easily imitate other instruments or generate unique new sounds. The creative facets synthesizers bring to music often enhance the overall quality of the composition as they add sounds that typical small bands don’t generally produce.

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Hearts Revealed
Calming harp music adds touches of inspiration, tranquility and heartwarming emotions to scenes as one envisions cherubic angels plucking delicate stringed harps on high. Harpists are mesmerizing to watch as they roll and sway and become one with the music they create with these beautiful instruments. Calming harp music is the ideal background for scenes of tender romance as well as tense, haunting dramas.

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Enthusiasm Squared
Unrestrained enthusiasm; that’s what exuberant music is all about. People love it because it’s joyful, jubilant and energetic; it lifts our spirits, makes us want to dance and allows us to forget about everything while we kick up our heels. Exuberant music is cheerful, lighthearted, high-spirited and enjoyed for its often vigorously animated compositions.

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