April 12, 2024

How Electronic Music Affects Body, Brain and Mood of Students

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Music is a special thing for everyone. Some people prefer to listen to it, and some people love to create it. It is very hard to choose the style you enjoy the most and follow it for a long time. Preferences are changing during our entire life, and it is normal and even good because, without these kinds of changes, we would never develop. Talking about nowadays, students’ one of the most popular styles of music is electronic music. It is the quintessence of technologies and melody with or without a singer. Fans are sure that nothing exists, nothing more important than the live show of their favorite artist. They can skip the lectures and preparation for exams if they feel that it is possibly the last tour or the best album ever. If you are one of them, you can order every kind of academic writing on SmartWritingService and spend time at the concert. Meanwhile professional essay writers will create papers for you. But let’s find out how electronic music affects students’ life in general when they do common things and spend a lot of time studying, researching, writing, and reading.

There are three spheres of influence we will talk about. 

Body 

The body loves music, and the body dances when listening to music. For the body, it is a sport and pleasure at the same time. It is when you are a dancer. However, if you are not a dancer, the body is not a part of the active music process. Luckily, electronic music is a kind of rhythmic music, and many people go to clubs and outside events, especially to dance. You don’t need to know special moves or be professional like in waltz, but just stop thinking and follow what your body says. 

Brain 

Let’s separate electronic music into three parts—music without words, music with phrases that repeat and music with a deep sense of the text. The first one is good to listen to when you are studying. It is like the sound of the waves that calm down and works like a background that relaxes. For some students, it is very hard to study with any kind of music, others say that they can’t focus without their favorite sounds. There is not a correct decision about this question, so you are free to choose what is perfect for you and use or ignore the magic of music during studying. In any case, you must remember that flowers grow faster and animals come to listen to classical music, so it is something special for every creature in the music it likes.    

Mood

Sometimes mood defines the music, sometimes reversed. Nevertheless, music has a strong influence on mood. If you are sad and will open sad tracks, it will exacerbate your inside feeling, but if your goal is to improve the spirit, you must listen to happy tracks forcibly and it will work. Electronic music has a lot of directions that can satisfy every request, so use it according to the need. Modern technologies allow us to listen to similar compositions without extra searching. It is perfect for the new artists that can get to your playlist thanks only to shuffle and a wish to listen to unknown music according to your mood.  

But what about studying in general? The main question is how electronic music affects your studying process and scores. What kind of music is the best for studying? If it steals too much attention and time? Let’s give simple answers to make a decision together.

  • Music is a good background if you need it. If your thoughts follow the studying material but not the text of the song, use it. Music will muffle other noises and be helpful for reading and searching.
  • Electronic or jazz, classical, instrumental music? Listen to music that you like but try alternatives from time to time. And come back to the style you enjoy the most. There are no good or bad styles, there are suitable or not suitable styles for you.
  • People have hobbies and music is one of them. If you understand it and fall into the obsession, it will never harm you. Like all hobbies, it gathers people with the same interests and helps with social connections that are so necessary for the age of technologies.
  • Festivals, clubs, concerts take time and money but give a kind of satisfaction you can’t compare with anything else, and after hard studying work, every student deserves it.

For decades, scientists experimented with various music styles to find the only one that helps to study the most. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a magic melody forcing you to work on your writing and giving you so much needed inspiration. As you have gathered from this article, everything depends on your type of personality and personal preferences. There is nothing wrong if instead of classical musing everyone praising to be the best in terms of concentration, you actually focus the best after a session of death metal. However, make sure to adjust the sound volume, as it is proven that listening to loud music and programs for over 10-15 minutes negatively affects cognitive abilities, and you need those to deal with your studies.

Now we are ready for the conclusion. Everything that makes you happy and helps to achieve a dream is good, but never forget that too much of anything is bad. So if you are a temperate electronic music fan, you will be a successful student with the special help of your legal passion that brings you dancing for the body, relaxation for the brain, and a perfect mood.      

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Bernard - Side-Line Staff Chief editor
Bernard Van Isacker is the Chief Editor of Side-Line Magazine. With a career spanning more than two decades, Van Isacker has established himself as a respected figure in the darkwave scene.

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