Royalty free suspense music
Need amazing music to make your project stand out? Here you will find a selection of our best suspense tracks created by our talented in-house artists. Not sure if this style fits your project? Read the article below to find out the ideal uses for this genre and the style it will bring to it.
What makes suspense music work?
As we all know, music plays a key role on any audiovisual project since it helps put the audience in the right mood and creates the atmosphere we need them to be in. This is true for any emotion, but especially when trying to create fear and suspense, just try to mute a horror movie and see how all those emotions go away. Some of the most successful scary movies have been awarded more for the music itself than for the footage, since the right selection of tracks is what really keeps the audience on edge.
So when choosing a suspenseful track the most important thing to take in consideration is the vibe it creates, and how this matches the scene or content you have.
This is a piece of music that keeps increasing and increasing in tension and loudness until it reaches a peak and a climax. This is one of the most used and predictable techniques, since we all know it's followed by a loud scream and probably some blood, but it has proven to work amazingly well.
This technique is pretty similar to the previous one, but has a bit of a twist. After increasing and increasing the loudness, it just goes completely silent. This misleads the audience who thinks that the action was about to happen, creating only more suspense.
When used correctly, this technique can help make scenes more intense and suspenseful. This is when the music either gets louder, or drops in volume depending on the moment.
This will add a fourth dimension to the entire project, making the experience way more real. After a while the audience will be used to it and probably won't even notice it anymore, so that time is perfect to create a big silence. The moment the audience notices something different they will naturally be tense and feel like something is wrong.
This refers to the combination of inharmonious notes played together, which sounds a bit crazy, but when done in a subtle way can be super effective. The audience will be on edge and feel that something is about to happen when they hear dissonant and consonant sounds being alternated.
Well, you will simply need it. As we said, music can turn a project into an amazing one or ruin it completely, this is especially true when we are referring to scary, suspenseful and creepy scenes, since there is a very fine line between nailing it, or making it look funny.
Royalty free music is a great way to go since getting the rights to use copyright music can be tricky and very expensive. Of course it is tempting to use tracks we all know and associate to great movies or videos, but using original music can help the project stand out and have an identity of its own. At Hooksounds we have an incredible collection of exclusive and well curated music and sound effects that are easy to filter and download.