Music For Studying?
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It has always baffled me how some people can listen to music while studying and others cannot. Personally, I cannot study without music. Actually, I pretty much need music to function in any sort of way. I love rock, punk, and metal music more than anything and primarily used music of that sort to study. However, those types probably would not work for you.
I highly and without any hesitation suggest you try to listen to a genre called "post-rock". I cannot express to you enough how wonderful this genre is and just how beautiful it is. It is one of my all time favorite styles of music to listen to, no matter what I am doing. And when I study, post-rock is the kind of music that brings me the best results. The music is so harmonic, melodic, peaceful and one of the most beautiful genres ever. The songs are almost entirely instrumental so there is no worrying about getting caught up in the lyrics as well. The music is extremely emotion driven, and so much passion can be heard, so it never fails to motivate me to work on what I am doing. Yet still, despite it's dynamics as something very powerful, it is not like you are listening to an epic cinematic film score for Lord of the Rings. That would be too distracting. The music of post-rock is very subtle in it's strength, able to guide me with it's music like normal brain waves. It is not distracting nor are you unable to notice it. It's the perfect blend.
I cannot recommend post-rock to you enough, and really hope that if you check it out it will help you the way you seek.
To help you out, here are a few bands and albums that I think are some of the best (the album names are in parenthesis):
Hammock (Oblivion Hymns)
Mono (Hymn to the Immortal Wind)
Goodnight, Sleep Well (The Recovery)
Sunlight Ascending (All The Memories, All At Once)
Explosions In The Sky (The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place)
Caspian (Waking Season)
There are so many others out there (seriously, there are a lot of post-rock bands) and literally every album I have heard is beautiful and amazing. You could honestly just search for post-rock and you will find something amazing. I really hope that it works for you, and if not, maybe just try ambient music. There is an ambient band called Altus and they are absolutely amazing... Ambient music is kind of like if the universe could make noises and helps a lot in reading, doing math, or just studying in general.
P.S. I recommend the first post-rock band you listen to is one called Qualia. They have an album called "Everything is Going To Be Fine" and it is my favorite post-rock album ever...
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The scientific view seems to be that music speaks to us at a very deep level, it does foe me anyway. Try it and see but try it several times, not just once.
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