Wake up by the sea: gentle morning music that slowly builds

Blue hour on a rocky coast, then the sun on the horizon, clifftops at sunrise, a bright beach and coffee on a seaside terrace. The music starts with soft piano and slowly builds to a warm, upbeat finish, with no vocals and no sudden jumps.

Watch on YouTube · SleepBetter channel · Wake-Up & Morning

Made with AI. Parts of this video are AI-generated (see “How this was made” below).

What it is

An original instrumental track made for the first quarter of an hour of the day. The first four and a half minutes are soft and slow, felt piano with a gentle shimmer. Then a fingerpicked guitar and a light shaker come in, around nine minutes it turns warmer and brighter with light percussion, and the last stretch is upbeat and sunny without getting harsh. The volume rises slowly too. Five coastal scenes follow the light, each a YouTube chapter: blue hour on a rocky coast (0:00), sun on the horizon (3:38), clifftops at sunrise (7:13), a bright beach morning (10:47) and coffee on a seaside terrace (14:22).

How to use it

Start it at a low volume as you get up, and let it rise with you while you open the windows, stretch or make breakfast. The scenes change slowly, so it works on a TV in the kitchen as well as a phone. Waking at a sensible point in your sleep cycle helps as much as the music: our sleep calculator works backwards from your alarm to suggest bedtimes.

How it differs from our other wake-up track

Our gentle wake-up music moves from a lake to hills, coast, meadow and an open window, and builds a little sooner. This one stays by the sea from start to finish and has a longer, slower opening, which suits darker winter mornings. Our misty hills Short is a twenty-second taste of the other track.

Calm music at night too

If you prefer calm music at the other end of the day, our sleep music guide covers what to look for at bedtime.

How this was made

This video is made with AI. The music was composed with ElevenLabs Music (AI) from SleepBetter’s prompts, and the five coastal scenes are AI-generated images (Higgsfield), gently animated, edited and mixed by SleepBetter. No voice.

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