best music to study to

[kaiser soze]

I've found when writing papers or preparing notes, I prefer Ani Difranco...she gets me grooving, but also Morphine, Jamiroquai, Pinback, Neutral Milk Hotel do the trick

But also I've found Sigor Ros / Mogwai / Tortoise / Blockhead / Bonobo / Skalpel and Boombip / Mouse on Mars to be excellent backgrounds to read to (unless I'm tired)

Whilst in the midst of an art project Beasties / Beck / Bjork /Critters Buggin / Sonic youth /Tool / Pinback / King Missile / MMW / Primus and mostly romping toons hook me up

I've noticed i am drawn to these particular bands for these processes

[kleptomaniac]

beastie boys
when you're studying for a test, playing "just a test" helps move the process along....and music in general just keeps me focused so my mind doesn't wander off....it tends to do that a lot when i'm trying to do homework...

some teachers i had used to let us listen to music while taking tests. it helps. even though all they'd play was classical music....but it does something chemical i guess to your brain that i can't explain...well that's what they said anyway.... :confused:

[ggirlballa]

i find that reggaeton gets your mind out of concentration like if i'm doin my homework and sum daddy yankee or don omar or ivy queen comes on i lose total concentration

[jabumbo]

stuff without lyrics works best for me



john coltrane - blue train is probbaly my favorite album for that purpose

[Bionic]

The Mozart Experiment

[Bob]

yeah stuff without lyrics is the best, lyrics are too distracting. hip hop is the worst in my opinion, i always get distracted.

heavy metal works too, just really loud blaring fairly mindless rock music to fill your brain and keep you on task and block out any other noise. i used to listen to probot a lot, that worked well. motorhead's pretty good. rammstein worked too, and they're great because they don't even sing in english, so it's easy to not pay a lot of attention to the lyrics.

i've started listening to apocalyptica while studying, they're like a combination of metallica (sans vocals) and violins, i don't quite know what their whole story is. it's good, though. they cover other songs, too, i saw a sepultura song in the playlist. there's a bitchin version of hall of the mountain king, too, which i think is some classical song, i don't know. anyway it's sweet.

i tried classical music but it doesn't work that well for me, because it's always going from soft to loud to soft to loud, and during the soft parts i've always got to deal with background noise, and i don't know.

[Justin]

I used to listen to Lee Perry back in college when writing papers

[CJM]

normally if i listen to music doing school work, i get side-tracked. i find classical music works the best for me.

[ms.peachy]

normally if i listen to music doing school work, i get side-tracked. i find classical music works the best for me.

Mm, when I was in school and even now if I've got some research to write up or something like that, it's always classical. But not Beethoven, he gets me too riled up. Something more soothing and repetitive, Bach is generally a good choice. Opera sometimes works for me too, provided it's one I don't know well enough to anticipate what's coming next.

[synch]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Beethoven's ninth

Drum 'n bass.

Like mentioned before, anything without lyrics.

[scotty]

Usually when I'm working on a report I listen to the LOTR: FotR S/T or relaxation music.

I agree with the stuff that Bob said about lyrics, they're way too distracting for a serial procrastinator like myself, but not with the rock thing. Rock is good for getting wired for sports or working out at the gym, but I need more relaxing stuff when undertaking more cerebral challenges.

[medler]

I can't listen to music when studying cos the beat gets in my head and i start singing along with it mentally

[jabumbo]

I can't listen to music when studying cos the beat gets in my head and i start singing along with it mentally

thats the way i am mostly


if i need something though, i want songs that i don't really know as well, so that i don't can't myself going along with it

[ms.peachy]

...and speaking again of classical music, if you fancy it, here's a quiz (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4646778.stm) from the BBC website in honour of the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. I managed 9 out of 10, which I am reasonably pleased with.

[Leonie]

When i'm drawning, Incubus, Bob Marley
When i'm doing math i listen music on my i-pod, when i'm studying other subject i dont listen music. i cant concentrate otherwise, math is pretty simple and so i dont need to concentrate hard on the exercises :D

[kaiser soze]

Drum 'n bass.




(y)

I prefer to spin it rather than study to it

[Freebasser]

dub

[Bob]

for me, total silence would be the best really, but that's never available when you have roommates, and background noise just kills me, it's impossible to concentrate, so i need some kind of music. just anything to fill the air, basically.

i got these noise cancelling headphones recently, they're amazing, i don't know what i ever did without them.

[abcdefz]

I can't really listen to music if I have to really study something I'm reading. Soetimes... like, maybe Eno's Thursday Afternoon is okay, but otherwise, it's just more input than I could handle.

A friend in college had a pretty good solution; he'd turn the TV set on and tune it in between stations, so he just got white noise, then he'd set the volume where he liked. That's pretty smart.

If I'm painting, yeah; I listen to whatever I want. If I'm writing fiction or working on an essay or something, generally chamber music or solo pieces are best, and it's gotta be low.

[fucktopgirl]

music is essential !!I need it like i need food!!BUt i dont have a "best "kind of music to listen while i do a "specific"kind of activities>It all depend on my mood!But yea,,it's a must for creating!!!

[CJM]

Mm, when I was in school and even now if I've got some research to write up or something like that, it's always classical. But not Beethoven, he gets me too riled up. Something more soothing and repetitive, Bach is generally a good choice. Opera sometimes works for me too, provided it's one I don't know well enough to anticipate what's coming next.
word.




i got 7/10......meh.

[Bob]

A friend in college had a pretty good solution; he'd turn the TV set on and tune it in between stations, so he just got white noise, then he'd set the volume where he liked. That's pretty smart


that's brilliant

[CJM]

^yeah, until you start hearing voices....

[alexandra]

doesn't matter, as long as it's funky.

[icy manipulator]

studying to some 2step right now (y)

[Otis Driftwood]

Can't study with music on. Every little thing can and does distract me... :(

[Parkey]

Boards of Canada.

[QueenAdrock]

Can't study with music on. Every little thing can and does distract me... :(

Yeah. I've got ADD, so it's hard enough for me to concentrate as it is. I get distracted by noises, so if I have to sit down and cram, I usually get ear plugs so I won't even hear voices from people outside my door. And then sometimes my mind still wanders. :(

[abcdefz]

stuff without lyrics works best for me



john coltrane - blue train is probbaly my favorite album for that purpose




...yeah; good luck studying to Ascension. :D


One of my friends in college would turn on the TV to a station he couldn't receive, and that would give him white noise, and he'd turn it to a low level. That was a good tip.

Pretty much any music distracts me. I can't have too much sensory input at once and keep concentrating.

[fucktopgirl]

Right now, i am listening to some LAmbrettas while typing my shit report on the northwest passage.....

[TurdBerglar]

any type of distractoin needs to be eliminated for me to study so music is gone. it needs to be completely silent

[Lo_Lyfe]

There are 3 albums that I always listen to when studying. So much so, that I can use pieces of the music as prompts in tests. The last test I sat using this 'musical cue' technique, I got 97.5%.

Pink Floyd - Pulse
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (yeah i talk about this album a lot, but I listen to it a lot)
Nuyorican Soul.

Also, I added a collection of the Beastie Boys' pre-cocktail instrumentals as a playlist at about 6 months ago, and Dilla's Donuts.