Need musical help

[blown motor]

My daughter, her boyfriend and I spent two and a half hours today shooting video with my car. We will edit it down to a few minutes. It will end up focusing as much on the road as it does on the car. It's a cool piece of road! The car just takes advantage of the character of the pavement. I'm struggling to come up with music for the video that will fit the focus of the video. I'm not into heavy metal. I'm looking more for something that would connect the twists and turns of life to the twists and turns of the road. Any ideas?

[Cuda Cody]

@ViperMan  is good with this sort of thing.   

[benlavigne]

I'd suggest a couple of nice pieces of canadian music, Life is a Highway, by Tom Cochrane, or Let it Roll, from BTO... ;-)
Unfortunately, you would not be able to post the video on YouTube with those songs...
Ben

[blown motor]

I'd suggest a couple of nice pieces of canadian music, Life is a Highway, by Tom Cochrane, or Let it Roll, from BTO... ;-)
Unfortunately, you would not be able to post the video on YouTube with those songs...
Ben

That brings up another point. What are the legalities of attaching a song to a video and putting it on YouTube? Or on any website, like this one?

[jordan]

my neighbor does a lot of videos to share with friends on you tube.  He almost always uses some rocking blues type of music.  I don't know any names, but it is all instrumental.  It works well.  Try some rockabilly and see if it fits.  Lots and lots of bands like that.  Use music from a  small band.  They would like the exposure and don't have the funds to prosecute. 

[blown motor]

Hadn't thought of just using an instumental but that might work well in this case. Thanks jordan.

[jimynick]

I can just hear it now! "I'm drivin' in my John Deere and it's comin' round the bend, and I ain't been to Mitchell, since who knows when".......sung to the tune of Folsom Prison by J Cash. 

[ViperMan]

Man there really are a ton of options - it all has to do with the tone you want the video to have...  You could go dark and broody, ("Mad World" - Gary Jules) or up-beat, ("Life Is a Highway" - Rascal Flatts) pop/modern ("Cruise" - Florida Georgia Line).  It's actually VERY easy to find instrumental versions of songs - usually karaoke versions are available on YouTube, then use a program like OBS Studio (which I believe is free) to do a screen/audio capture, then just extract the audio track.  Lenny Kravitz songs make phenomenal background tracks ("American Woman", "Fly Away")  Maybe something fun like "Devil Went Down to Georgia" by Charlie Daniels?

Regarding copyright, it's a difficult subject to navigate online.  If you use karaoke versions of songs, it's not technically a track produced BY the band (it's technically a cover song) so the artist doesn't have much legal power there.  If you use the actual song, you can generally get by with a credit to the artist and title in the video description (Soundtrack: "A Song" by a band - copyright xxxx) <- grab the date the album was produced and toss it in there.  That way you're saying, "Hey, this isn't my music and I'm giving the artist credit for their work."  Since you're not SELLING the video (assuming you're not selling the video) there's no way you'll get in any legal trouble.  The absolute worse thing that could happen is the band somehow finding your obscure driving video among the ~100,000,000 videos currently on YouTube and says, "Oh hey, that's my song - you have to take the video down" and YouTube will basically take care of that for you... 

I made my Decade of Carlisle video which used 9 or so different songs - all instrumental versions - and seeing as it received a STAGGERING 205 views (the third-highest viewed video I've placed on YouTube!) it didn't draw enough attention for anyone to shut it down.    In fact, my highest-viewed video is one I made of me dancing with my daughter when she was 2 or so to "Thinking Out Loud" by Ed Sheeran - over 1,600 views.  YouTube tossed on a disclaimer that it "contains copyrighted content" but it's not actually blocked or banned.

[303 Mopar]

Regarding copyright, it's a difficult subject to navigate online.  If you use karaoke versions of songs, it's not technically a track produced BY the band (it's technically a cover song) so the artist doesn't have much legal power there.  If you use the actual song, you can generally get by with a credit to the artist and title in the video description (Soundtrack: "A Song" by a band - copyright xxxx) <- grab the date the album was produced and toss it in there.  That way you're saying, "Hey, this isn't my music and I'm giving the artist credit for their work."  Since you're not SELLING the video (assuming you're not selling the video) there's no way you'll get in any legal trouble.  The absolute worse thing that could happen is the band somehow finding your obscure driving video among the ~100,000,000 videos currently on YouTube and says, "Oh hey, that's my song - you have to take the video down" and YouTube will basically take care of that for you... 

I've uploaded many videos with songs either attached or playing on the car radio while I was recording.  One interesting thing happened to me this weekend was when I tried to post this video directly on my Facebook page, FB gave me a warning that the video contained music that I do not have a copyright to and if so then I need to delete the post.  So I uploaded the video to YouTube and included "music by Boston" and then copied the link to a post on my FB page.

I've also had good luck editing multiple videos into one and slapping on some music using iMovie on my Mac.  It allows you to fade the music and video sound in and out, splice in photos/videos, and rearrange things.

[blown motor]

Thanks for your input guys. We watched all the footage last night. I think about 30 minutes of it. Lots of material to work with. They loaded it on to two sticks for me and now I can't find the one.    There was just over 14 GB. I'll need them to help with the editing. We'll see how this turns out.

[benlavigne]

Regarding copyright, it's a difficult subject to navigate online.  If you use karaoke versions of songs, it's not technically a track produced BY the band (it's technically a cover song) so the artist doesn't have much legal power there.  If you use the actual song, you can generally get by with a credit to the artist and title in the video description (Soundtrack: "A Song" by a band - copyright xxxx) <- grab the date the album was produced and toss it in there.  That way you're saying, "Hey, this isn't my music and I'm giving the artist credit for their work."  Since you're not SELLING the video (assuming you're not selling the video) there's no way you'll get in any legal trouble.  The absolute worse thing that could happen is the band somehow finding your obscure driving video among the ~100,000,000 videos currently on YouTube and says, "Oh hey, that's my song - you have to take the video down" and YouTube will basically take care of that for you... 

I've uploaded many videos with songs either attached or playing on the car radio while I was recording.  One interesting thing happened to me this weekend was when I tried to post this video directly on my Facebook page, FB gave me a warning that the video contained music that I do not have a copyright to and if so then I need to delete the post.  So I uploaded the video to YouTube and included "music by Boston" and then copied the link to a post on my FB page.

I've also had good luck editing multiple videos into one and slapping on some music using iMovie on my Mac.  It allows you to fade the music and video sound in and out, splice in photos/videos, and rearrange things.


Only time I've updated a video with music ou YouTube, it was driving in Arizona, with Eagles playing on the radio. It took less than 24 hours before it was removed... They actually have ''robots'' ''listening'' to all new content to look for copyrighted material...

Ben

[303 Mopar]

Only time I've updated a video with music ou YouTube, it was driving in Arizona, with Eagles playing on the radio. It took less than 24 hours before it was removed... They actually have ''robots'' ''listening'' to all new content to look for copyrighted material...

Ben

Did you give some type of credit to the band in the comments or Title?

[benlavigne]

No, did not think of doing that then, it's the first time I hear about that ''loophole''!
Will try it next time, Thanks!...

Ben

[Bullitt-]

Doubt if Kenny Wayne would mind 

[303 Mopar]

Doubt if Kenny Wayne would mind 

  I would love a trip to his garage and hang out while he plays some blues!