Acoustic Guitar Background Music for Video

Why acoustic guitar works under video

Few instruments feel as personal as an acoustic guitar. It sounds handmade, which is exactly why small brands, craftspeople, travel creators and wedding filmmakers reach for it:

• A warm, natural tone that sits comfortably under a voice when played softly.
• Clear note attacks — every pluck or strum gives the editor a precise point to cut on.
• A wide emotional range — intimate and tender when fingerpicked, open and optimistic when strummed.

Fingerpicked, strummed or with a band?

• Solo fingerpicked guitar — intimate and tender: wedding films, personal stories, testimonials and podcasts. See wedding video music and romantic music.
• Strummed guitar with a band — upbeat and open-road: travel vlogs, lifestyle channels and outdoor brands. See vlog music and travel & drone music.
• Guitar with accordion and clarinet — a European café colour for food, fashion, city guides and small-business ads.
• Country and folk-rock — energetic, sunny and made for road trips and promos. See also German folk music.

Editing acoustic guitar tracks

• Match tempo to story. 60–75 BPM for reflective, personal pieces; 100–130 BPM for upbeat lifestyle and travel edits.
• Cut on the pattern. Fingerpicked pieces repeat a pattern every bar or two, so they loop and extend cleanly at the end of a pattern.
• Give the voice space. Solo guitar leaves room for narration; keep it roughly 12–18 dB under the voice.
• Use the ending. Many guitar pieces close on a ringing final chord — a natural fade for the last shot.

Tracks to start with

• Ballad Dreams — solo acoustic guitar by Paul Lorenz; tender, romantic and nostalgic for wedding films and personal stories.
• Diamante — acoustic guitar with accordion and clarinet in A minor; a nostalgic, playful café colour for food, travel and advertising.
• Country Boys — an energetic band track with acoustic and electric guitars for road trips, outdoor brands and upbeat promos.

Browse all acoustic guitar tracks in the catalogue. For other moods with a similar organic feel, see calm background music, upbeat background music and piano music.

Real musicians, real recordings

Every guitar track is performed and recorded by professional musicians and curated by composer and conductor Paul Lorenz — played, never programmed, and never AI-generated. That also means clear human authorship and documented rights, which is what makes the music safe to license commercially.

Licensing acoustic guitar music

Artyfile Basic — €29.90 per track, once. Worldwide, in perpetuity, sync and master rights in one licence: YouTube, social, websites, podcasts with video, wedding films, ads, corporate films, TV and streaming. Instant 44.1 kHz WAV, PDF invoice and licence certificate.

• YouTube Content ID: Artyfile registers its catalogue in Content ID with a monetization policy. A claim may appear on your video; it is not a copyright strike, and your channel stays in good standing. With Basic, the ad revenue claimed for the music goes to Artyfile, not to your channel.
• Collection societies: Artyfile manages sync and master rights directly, so the licence carries no additional GEMA or collection-society fee. For TV and radio broadcasts, cue sheets go to the relevant society; Artyfile supplies the details on request.
• Client work: the licence stays with you, the licensee. Your client receives the finished video with cleared music, and the licence certificate documents the rights. A client who wants to use the recording on its own, outside that video, needs their own licence.
• Cafés, shops and restaurants: playing music in the room is public playback, which the operator settles separately under their collection-society agreement. Your licence covers the music inside your videos.

Full terms on the pricing page.