"Delibes' Pizzicatti" is a 19th century piece of classical music, and part of the public domain. However, high quality, royalty-free recordings of this and similar classical pieces are difficult to find and license. So instead of purchasing a recording of the piece, I just reproduced it myself using my own sound libraries. This has the added benefit of making the composition totally customizable. In this case, I altered the length of certain sections of the music so it would time up perfectly with my edit.

"American Marimba" is an example of a "soundalike" composition. I edited this section to music from "American Beauty." Of course, I would have never been able to license the actual American Beauty music for my own use, so instead, I created this composition with a similar tempo, instrumentation, and rhythmic elements. Soundalike compositions like this can be very useful when you've already found a piece of music that fits the tone you want for your video, but you know you won't be able to license the track.

For the last section of the video, I used the instrumental cut of one of my Patreon songs. I have a number of tracks like this already produced and prepped for quick licensing.