Today all you need are some basic research and browsing skills and you can pull up any number of sites offering streaming free online instrumental music in all genres, including jazz, new age, classical, and holiday favorites.

With a little detective work and patients you can find your own favorite websites that will play your favorite instrumentals. In this article I will share a few of my hot spots online where I go to get my free instrumental music online.

First on my list is AOL Radio. This is a place to go for music to relax and meditate by. And you dont have to be an AOL member to listen. Simply type AOL Radio in your browser and you are directed to their main Music site. From the main Stations by Category list located on the left side of the site, under Eclectic, youll find titles such as Ambient, Meditation, Nature Sounds and New Age. This site also offers a Classical section where you can find stations playing every type of classical instrumental music online that you can think of from Baroque to Renaissance. This is one of my favorite spots to go to listen to Classical instrumental music online. The music on AOL Radio is rarely interrupted with talking, save for the occasional two minutes for site identification purposes. To check out this site go to www.music.aol.com.

You wont be able to find any Christian instrumental or Christmas holiday instrumental music on AOL. So, for those of you wanting to listen to free instrumental Christian music online, sign up on www.crosswalkradio.com. Youll be asked to register on the Salem Web Network All-Pass System, after which, they will send you an e-mail confirming your registration. Once you are logged into Crosswalk, you simply click the “Instrumental” button and you are on your way to listening to some of the best Christian instrumental music on the web.

To listen to free online instrumental Christmas music, go to www.live365.com which has instrumental online radio stations where you can find all Jazz Christmas instrumentals, or a collection of traditional and non-traditional Christmas instrumentals in the new age genre, including ambient and Celtic. This is one of my favorite places to go to listen to Christmas instrumental music online because they have a great variety of instrumental Christmas music online radio stations so I can flip through them whenever a song comes on I dont like. The music is free for the listening with no sign up; however, it does have many more interruptions for ads than does AOL Radio. Live 365 does offer an option to subscribe and enjoy ad-free music. Depending on how much music you listen to, it might well be worth the price of subscription.

The number one spot online for great instrumental jazz music is My Music Stream. I go here to listen to all the latest and greatest jazz instrumentals and also to listen to some old jazz classics. Theres nothing like jazz. Its like the rebel of all music with its spontaneity and feel driven rhythms.

Score another point for My Music Stream. This is also the place I visit to get my instrumental mix of blues. Like jazz they have a wide variety of blues instrumentals that comfort me in my time of need.

Bottom line, there are tons and tons of places that offer free instrumental music online, you just have to do your research and be patient. Whether your looking for soft ambient instrumentals or Christmas instrumental music you are sure to find it out in the world wide web. Until Next Time

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