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Best Copyright Free Music for YouTube Videos — Top 3 Sites - YouTube
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so finding high quality music for your
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youtube videos can actually be a huge
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challenge on the one hand
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you've got copyright issues with a lot
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of the good music and then on the other
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hand a lot of the free music
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is just terrible right so what are the
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best sites
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for copyright free music and
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royalty-free music
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in this video i've got three of my
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favorites and we're gonna jump into that
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right now
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what's up sean here with think media
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notes and links in the description below
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i'll list out all of the royalty-free
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music sites as well as any other tips
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in the youtube description let's jump
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into
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the video so finding great music for
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your youtube videos is very important
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music creates energy it sets the tone it
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sets the vibe
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and it really can be the difference
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maker between someone really enjoying a
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video or leaving a video and clicking
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away
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to something else but music is tough
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on youtube specifically because a lot of
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us would probably love to use
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popular songs from you know top 40
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artists and billboard charts but the
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problem there
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is you're going to run into copyright
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issues if you upload videos with
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copywritten songs number one
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you might just lose monetization the
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monetization will go to the artist and
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so now
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that money won't be coming to you on
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your youtube channel number two
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it might not be viewable in some regions
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if it sees there's a copy written song
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on your video
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then maybe certain countries can't see
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it so that could affect your viewership
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and number three the worst thing that
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could happen is you could get a
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copyright strike and potentially get
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you know your channel in bad standing or
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even have videos deleted or taken down
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so you really want to be careful when it
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comes to copywritten
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music on youtube and so if you're
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looking for music the two terms to look
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for are
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royalty free music or no copyright
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music now there's actually a lot of good
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sites that
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you can pay money to get songs that you
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can use in your videos
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and they give you the permission and
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sometimes they can be great quality but
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this video is all about free sites so
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everything we're talking about
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is 100 not just royalty-free but also
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free in the sense that you don't
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exchange money to use those
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tracks alright so with all that said
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let's jump into the best places to get
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good music
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so my first recommendation for finding
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great music that you can use in your
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videos with no
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issues is the youtube audio library and
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if you're logged into your youtube
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channel
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you can just go inside of your creator
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studio go down to create in the lower
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left-hand section on desktop
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and just click the audio library then it
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opens it up
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and what's cool is you've got all of
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these different tracks that you can
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download
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to bring into your editing software for
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your videos and you can sort them by
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the genre by the mood in case you
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already know what kind of vibe you want
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your video
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even by the instruments by how long they
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are and things like that
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and actually youtube just uploaded a
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whole lot of new tracks which is very
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very cool now as far as the music
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quality of these tracks
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it's kind of hit or miss but there's
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definitely some gems that you can find
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in fact
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check these out
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[Music]
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and so i'd love to hear what you think
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about those tracks that we just listened
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to but those are from the youtube music
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library and again on this channel
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we do a lot of hip-hop music as well as
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kind of chilled
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laid-back kind of sample music and
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things like that
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but again there's all kinds of different
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genres here so even if you wanted more
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like a poppy happy vibe
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you've got that as well
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and then one other thing to note about
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the youtube audio library
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is they also have a lot of free sound
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effects that you can use
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in your video so if you just go to the
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sound effects tab you can look through
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here download whatever
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you want and then make your videos
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cooler than a polar bear's toenails
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that was a sound effect from the youtube
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library now the second
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set of sites that i would recommend for
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finding some great music for your videos
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are these youtube channels like no
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copyright
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sounds now this is a great channel it's
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got a lot of edm
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vibe type songs like this one right here
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and there's been a lot of high quality
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youtube channels like this that have
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been popping
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up lately including um trap nation this
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has got a great playlist of songs that
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you can use here
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again kind of more trap music edm
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there's
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bass nation so great songs on there
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and then there's also this audio library
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so some of those other sites again are
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going to be a little more edm
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upbeat which is great for maybe a lot of
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the vlogs and videos you want to edit
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but
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this audio library no copyright music
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channel
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has got a lot of cool songs for some
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variety
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of styles so if you kind of like you
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know casey neistat's kind of music vibe
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a lot of those style of songs you'll
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find in there or even just more upbeat
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poppy and not necessarily all edm for
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example i love this song called rock
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angel
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and this actually was used on a video on
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my sean cannell channel
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about my top seven personal development
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books
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so what are the best self-improvement
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books in this video i'm gonna share
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seven
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must read personal development books
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coming up
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and then another one to mention is
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called vlog no copyright so again
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sites like this are popping up if you go
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to the related channels you can find
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some other ones
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and we'll also post all the links to
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these in the youtube description
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as well as some bonus ones that we
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didn't mention
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but now here's a few important
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distinctions when it comes to these
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sites i'm on the
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vlog no copyright music site and on the
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about page it says this is great music
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that's free to download and use in your
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youtube and twitch videos
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but always give credit to the artist and
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actually specifically what you want to
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do is go into each individual video
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click on it and then look in the youtube
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description and what you'll see
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is it says you're free to use this song
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in any of your videos
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but you must include the following in
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the video description and it says copy
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and paste
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and so then what you would do is just
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select that of information and make sure
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that ends up in your youtube
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description and so that's typically what
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you need to do for compliance
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but research each individual youtube
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channel and even track individually just
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to make sure
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you get the right information put into
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the youtube description
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additionally you might be wondering how
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do i actually download the song so in
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this case
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um there is a link to the artist union
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where you can grab
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this particular song but also you might
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run into a case where they actually
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don't link to a place like that where
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you can download it directly
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and so if you ever want to download a
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youtube video
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um and actually download the video or
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just get the audio out of a youtube
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video my favorite piece of software
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is called 4k video downloader i just use
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the free version
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you know there's other few sites on the
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on the web as well
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and so uh whatever you need to do if you
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want to just pull the song right off of
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the youtube video that's one piece of
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software
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that can help you do it now what i love
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about these youtube channels is that
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there's a lot of songs especially if you
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dig through here that are absolutely
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incredible that really feel like top 40
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music
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that have a really cool vibe a unique
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vibe to them and so they are a great
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resource and not only that
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the fact that they give you permission
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for twitch use youtube use
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some of them say commercial and that's
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important to know some of the sites
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they say it's okay to use in a youtube
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video but they might not give you
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permission to use it in a commercial
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video meaning
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um you know right now omar and the think
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media team is shooting this and he'll do
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commercial jobs where he's getting paid
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and charging a client
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to shoot videos for them technically you
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couldn't use that music
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for that paid project if you don't have
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commercial rights
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but what a lot of the artists will say
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like hey if you're vlogging if you're
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just a youtuber
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you can use it but it depends so that's
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why you kind of got to read the fine
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print figure it out
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and so a lot of these sites will let you
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do you know youtube use
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commercial use and monetize your videos
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or monetize
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your twitch streams in the process but
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here's the downside
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the one risk you take with this music is
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that if someday
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the artist you know stronger by
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lemonfight here
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wanted to add their song to soundscan
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which is how youtube
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hears music in your videos if you upload
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a video with a beyonce song or
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macklemore song and it's like you've got
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copyright music it's because youtube's
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listening
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if any of these artists ever uploaded
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their song to that
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all of your past videos with their music
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could potentially
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be demonetized or rather they would take
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the monetization over to that artist
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so again it's not really a huge risk i
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don't want you to worry about that
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but if there was a piece of content you
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wanted to put out that you know would be
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yours for life that
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you would always get the youtube revenue
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off of it it would never have any issues
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these you're probably fine like i
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wouldn't want you to worry
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but you're you know you are putting your
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their music on your videos
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and they could shift those terms later
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you'd never have any legal issues
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they would never be able because you're
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like i got it off a free site i put
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these things in the description
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you don't have to worry about like
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getting probably copyright flagged or
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anything
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but again specifically from a
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monetization point that's happened to me
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before i used some music that i had
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permission for
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and then actually a couple years later
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sound scan i got some emails and they're
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like your video actually has some
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copyright music
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the video didn't get taken down it had
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no limitations but now the
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monetization was going to the other
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person and if you follow think media for
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very long
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we actually don't rely on youtube ads
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too much we focus on monetizing in other
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ways in fact if you want to see our
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video on
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you know some of the best ways to make
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money on youtube without
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adsense we'll link that up on the
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youtube card and put in the description
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below
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but again i just want you to be in the
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know when using this music i don't think
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you have anything to worry about i think
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these sites are awesome
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but if you use like the youtube library
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never have any problems
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if you use these you might you probably
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won't but you could have issues
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in the future but the other thing i've
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done for a lot of projects and a lot of
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videos is actually reach out to the
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artist directly now again
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keep in mind the difference between some
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of these independent
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rising artists versus mainstream artists
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again you can't really
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email g-eazy and be like yo can i use
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your music keeping in mind that not only
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is he not going to see that
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but actually his music is also owned by
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record labels and
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different people so you actually would
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have to get rights from multiple
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different people
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in the case of a lot of these
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independent artists they own the music
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themselves and if you ask
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a lot of times they'll be pretty
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agreeable to let you use their music if
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they see your inquiry
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so for example one of the artists i like
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is peter cooley or
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cully and you can see his uh soundcloud
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page here
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and he's got an email it says um you
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know all inquiries and so he lets you
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know where you can email him but he's
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also got a twitter account so i actually
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tweeted him and i said you know hey
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peter love your music what are your
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terms of use on social media he replied
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to me
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just tag me somewhere and um in the
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tweet for credit and you're all set and
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i was actually asking about doing it on
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a twitter video
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so you could fire off an email reach out
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to that person on social media
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and i found that a lot of these artists
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that are kind of on the climb and
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wanting to get exposure for their music
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will a lot of times be willing to
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collaborate especially with content
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creators like
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yourself and so again i asked for
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permission talk to the artist and once i
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got the approval i was able to make a
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super cool video and in this case
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we used one of peter's tracks in this
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video that we did at the seven magic
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mountains
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here in las vegas
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[Music]
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so i think that this method of finding
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cool music and really unique music for
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your videos is great as far as reaching
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out to artists goes
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but again the downside there is that the
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same thing could happen
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yes you get permission yes maybe they
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just say put my link in the description
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below
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and you may or may not know if it's
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going to be again in sound scan or not
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so
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again if i go down this path i'm usually
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not wanting to bank on being able to
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monetize the videos
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typically there's no issues but there
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might be and it's that artist's
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prerogative of whether or not they
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upload that to youtube's
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you know sound scan or not and so again
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if you don't want to bank on any
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monetization
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you get permission from the artist
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incorporating your video and you're good
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to go and you've got some great
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music so really quick let's recap what
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we've covered so far but i also have a
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few other tips and things you might want
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to consider
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when it comes to finding great music for
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your videos so the first one is
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again if you want complete no strings
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attached
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no worries about any issues at all and
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the guarantee that you'll be able to
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monetize your videos
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really for life then the youtube audio
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library as far as free sites go
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is probably your best bet not the best
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music necessarily but there are some
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great tracks there
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and so something to consider secondly
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those other sites
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offer a lot of great music or asking the
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artists themselves again
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really cool music probably no issues and
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it's something i would definitely
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recommend
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but you might encounter encounter some
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problems later
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which brings me to my bonus tip and that
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is actually that
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if you want some great unique music that
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also has no copyright issues
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and that can be used in your youtube
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videos you actually might want to pay
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for it and i don't mean again
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downloading a popular song on itunes for
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a couple dollars but typically
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you will pay either for individual
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tracks from a
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royalty-free music website or you'll pay
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for a subscription service now we're
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gonna actually do a full video
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about this in the future but just to
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touch on it really quick
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my personal favorite site is actually
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audio jungle
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and there's a lot of great um music here
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there's music packs a lot of the music
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that you hear in think media videos on
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video influencer videos
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came from audio jungle so i definitely
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recommend checking out their library
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i'll link to that in the description
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below
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and then another option that is really
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popular with a lot of youtube creators
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is epidemic sound and again a site like
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that's pretty cool because you can
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actually license tracks individually and
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a lot of times
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they'll be like about a hundred dollars
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each but you get the you get the rights
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to use that song in your videos
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but they also offer subscriptions to um
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youtube creators
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depending on the size of your channel so
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if you have less than 500 000
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subscribers a month it's 15
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a month and then it goes up to 30 or if
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you had a huge channel
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150 would be the most you pay per month
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so again a pretty big investment
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but if you're really taking youtube
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seriously and you want some high quality
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music that you know
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you aren't going to have any copyright
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issues with and basically
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makes you immune to what potentially
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could happen dabbling in some of that
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free music
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using paid music is definitely a great
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solution and again if you want to check
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out a free trial with that or check out
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audio jungle we'll post links to
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everything in the description below
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question of the day we discovered some
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of my favorite sites for royalty-free
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music but i'd love to hear from you
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if you have any recommendations for
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great places to get great music that you
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can use in your youtube videos
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so definitely post those in the comment
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section below and remember some of the
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best tips and feedback
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come from you the think media community
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so definitely connect with everybody
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in the comments section so thanks for
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