Writing stock music

I’ve been working on some stock music for a few non-exclusive music libraries. It’s not super innovative music. It’s not groundbreaking musical ideas that’ll change the musical vocabulary of the future. But the ideas work and they’ll definitely work for some specific contexts.

I’m currently working on a group of solo piano songs as well as a group of “emotional strings” songs and soon a group of solo guitar songs.

It’s super enjoyable because I’m working on writing a specific form of music and I’m working on keeping the songs as simple as possible, while still keeping them interesting. Doing those two things is surprisingly difficult.

It’s also a great way to keep myself creating and being creative, but in a lighter way than writing my own personal music. My music on Spotify and iTunes and Bandcamp and TIDAL is much more involved because those are songs that are more personal and less mechanical.

It’s almost a mechanical process for me to write stock music because I’m re-using old musical ideas that I’ve heard a bunch of times before. I’m placing specific pieces into specific places and using formulas almost.

If you’re ever feeling stuck writing some music I highly recommend writing some music to be used as stock music. It doesn’t have to be highly creative, but it does still have to be high quality. You’ll be able to practice your music production skills and mixing and mastering skills, but the actual process of coming up with ideas will be simplified.

It can be great practice.

ISJ