Taking Care Of Business Song

What You Need To Know About Background Music For Business Videos

I spent about three weeks last year trying to find the right track for a series of corporate explainer videos. The brief was simple — something that sounded professional but not robotic, energetic but not cheesy. We ended up landing on a piece called Taking Care Of Business Song, and honestly it worked better than anything we tested before it. The track itself runs about two minutes and forty-seven seconds. It's built around a steady mid-tempo groove with layered synth pads and a muted guitar line that never dominates the mix. The kind of thing you can put under voiceover without it fighting for attention. I've used similar tracks for about eight years across different clients, and this one falls into the category of corporate ambient-pop — a genre that most people don't realize exists as a proper bucket until they start searching for it.

Where To Find Taking Care Of Business Song

The song appears on a few licensing platforms, though the exact title can shift depending on which library you're checking. On Epidemic Sound it's listed under the business and technology categories. On Artlist you'll find similar-sounding tracks under corporate background music. If you're doing a quick search and can't locate the exact title, try filtering by BPM between 95 and 115 and look for tracks tagged as upbeat corporate or motivational background. For personal use or small projects, most of these platforms offer straightforward licensing. A standard subscription usually covers it. If you're producing for a client who needs broadcast rights or sync placement, you'll want the extended license, which runs about $50 to $100 per track depending on the platform and the scope of distribution. I learned this the hard way on a project for a fintech startup. We used a track without clarifying the license tier with the client, and they wanted to run it as a TV ad. Had to replace it. That cost us two days of re-editing and about $80 we could have avoided by just reading the fine print upfront.

How The Track Actually Works In Practice

When I first imported the Taking Care Of Business Song into my project, the first thing I noticed was how cleanly the stems separated. The production team had layered it so the drums sit well below the mix, the bass is tight and doesn't boomy, and the melodic elements stay in the upper mids. That means when you drop a voiceover track on top, you're not doing aggressive EQ cuts to make room. Here's the workflow I've settled on: import the full track, create an audio track below it for the voiceover, then use a low-shelf cut around 200Hz on the music bus at about negative 3 decibels. It's subtle but it stops the music from muddying up the lower vocal frequencies. Then I sidechain the music to the voiceover at a 2:1 ratio with a fast attack and medium release. The music dips just enough when someone speaks, then comes back up during pauses. Takes about twelve minutes to set up once you've done it a few times. The track has a natural build structure — it starts sparse, adds layers around the forty-five second mark, and hits its fullest arrangement at about one minute and fifteen seconds before pulling back slightly for the outro. This makes it surprisingly flexible for video editing because you can trim to any section without it sounding abrupt. Most other corporate tracks I've dealt with either loop awkwardly or end with a visible fade that screams stock music.

Common Mistakes People Make

The biggest issue I see is using the full unedited track for a thirty-second social media cut. It doesn't work. The song is structured for a two-to-three-minute runtime, and when you chop it to fit a short ad, the transitions sound disjointed because the layer drops don't align with the edit points. Instead, import the track, locate the section from about thirty seconds into the song where the full arrangement kicks in, and trim from there. You'll get a cleaner six-second loop that actually feels complete. Another thing — and this one costs people money — is not checking whether the track is cleared for commercial use before you commit to it in a project. A lot of the independent libraries sell tracks that look licensed but actually require a separate mechanical license if you're using them in a monetized video. I've had clients who got demonetized because they assumed a subscription cover everything. It doesn't always. Check the license details page on the platform before you add it to your timeline. The track also doesn't work well for high-energy sports-style content. The tempo is too restrained and the arrangement is too calm for that use case. If you need something driving and aggressive, look for tracks tagged as hype or stadium pop instead. This one sits somewhere between confident and relaxed, which is useful for a specific type of content but limiting for others.

Alternatives If You Can't Find The Exact Track

If you search and the exact Taking Care Of Business Song isn't available in your region or on your platform of choice, here are three tracks that share similar DNA: Momentum Forward by a different library artist, Corporate Bright which hits the same BPM range, and Office Hours which has that same muted guitar feel. None of them are identical, but they occupy the same sonic space and will serve the same editorial purpose. The reason I mention this is that music licensing is fragmented. The same track can have different titles on different platforms, and sometimes the metadata gets messy. If you can't find it by name, search by the sonic characteristics — mid-tempo, synth and guitar blend, no vocals, corporate ambient — and you'll usually land on something close enough within a few minutes of browsing.

My Honest Take On The Track

It's solid. Not groundbreaking, but solid. The production quality is clean, the licensing is reasonable, and it does exactly what it promises without drawing attention to itself. That's the whole point of background music for business content — it should be noticeable only if something's wrong with it. On that front, this track delivers. The one area where it falls short is originality. If you've watched more than a dozen corporate explainer videos in a year, you'll recognize the chord progression. It's a standard I-IV-vi-iii progression in a major key, which is the most common pattern in this genre. That's not a flaw in the track itself, but it's worth knowing if your client has seen a lot of content in this space and wants something that feels fresher. For most practical purposes — internal training videos, product demos, social media ads for B2B services — this track will do the job without any issues. Just make sure you're licensed properly and you've trimmed it to fit your runtime correctly.