We’ve posted the official License and Terms of Use on the main website.

Here’s the totally-unofficial-Plain-English explanation:

These tracks are for use in “background” types of applications – background music behind a powerpoint thing running on a Government or Publis Access station, for example. In this type of usage, the tracks are truly “royalty free” – meaning that you never have to buy another license.

However, you might find a track (or several, we hope!) that would be PERFECT for use as your theme song. In that case, please contact us. That usage would require a different license and pricing. It isn’t a huge deal – we just prefer keeping all the ducks lined up correctly!

If you are looking to use our tracks in an educational setting (elementary, secondary, or higher education)  – contact us! We’re both teachers, and firmly believe in educational pricing.

In terms of Customer/Client information (names, purchases, email addresses, etc) -

• We don’t give it away.
• We don’t sell it.
• To Anybody.

(unless a US court orders us to do so. We’d rather stay in the studio and out of jail.)

You can read the entire thing here, if you’d like.

More music coming soon!

Tom has contributed Another New Ager in the Calmness section and Birthday Jelly in Up Piano.

(Yes, it is a pun – referring to some jamming he did on his birthday a while back.)

We’ve also added some tracks from Joey – Morley Magic, Scratch That Itch, and Whistle While You Work It (featuring an incredible jazz whistler named Francesco Bonifazi). All of these tracks are in Light Jazz. Click on the links, check out the podcast, and enjoy!

GovAccessMusic.com – Quality, Interesting, Royalty-Free music especially designed for use by Government and Public access cable TV channels.

To celebrate…..uhhhhh…… Friday (why not?) here’s a free ringtone from a GovAccessMusic.com track for your cell phone. Don’t forget, your carrier may charge you something – depending on your cell plan (but we can’t do anything about that!).

This is Sunday Brunch, from the Light Jazz album on GAM.

Senate Records at Myxer

We’ve been hard at work getting several new tracks ready to post on GovAccessMusic.com but it IS summer, and vacation is beckoning!

Now, granted, I’m not going to be thinking about any of that while strolling the streets of Savannah, GA – but I certainly will get back to it after vacation.

So what’s coming? Some guitar work by Joey, plus some new piano-based music by Tom…. all of it different from the tracks already posted on the site.

So keep an eye out – we’ll (of course) post on this blog when the new podcast is up…..or you could subscribe and receive it automatically. Check the link on the main site at GovAccessMusic.com.

So what kind of music should you use on your Government Access or Public Acccess channel?

(Anything from GovAccessMusic.com, of course!)

I’m sure you’d like something a bit more useful, so here are some thoughts:

1. Match the style of the music to your content. You probably shouldn’t use uptempo edgy guitar music for screens describing disaster preparation procedures -  and real slow meditative tracks don’t work for pictures of graduation ceremonies or school activities.
2. Match the time of day as well – uptempo might work in the morning (to pep people up), but then again it might be annoying for those who wake up slowly.
3. Variety is good – but within limits. It can be jarring when successive tracks vary wildly stylistically or in instrumentation. For example, going from a slow vibraphone piece directly to a hard rock guitar-driven piece probably won’t work – UNLESS you are doing it to grab attention that something just changed (like going to a new program).
4. I personally like using Christmas music during the summer months. It’s a nice reminder of tunes that people realy do like, but are dreadfully tired of by December mainly becuase the radio stations have been playing Christmas music since mid-October).

So do you have any suggestions? How do YOU decide what music to program? Leave a comment, and we’ll probaly write about it later!