What is good music to listen to while studying?
I listen to music while studying. I find that when I’m actually doing productive work, I’m not really “listening” to the music – by which I mean, I’m not mentally processing it, since I’m concentrating on my work. If this is the case with you, it doesn’t really matter what you listen to. However, you did ask for recommendations – I’ll recomment Foo Fighters, since that’s what I’m listening to now. 🙂 The new album (Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace) is great. When I’m tired, I listen to System of a Down – it stops me falling asleep while working.
I remember studies showed that classical music was great for studying, but anything soft is good as well. Easy listening, soft rock, or folk (rock) is great. I’m not so sure about easy listening, as I only knew one band that I have since forgotten, but as for soft rock and folk (rock), there’s Fleetwood Mac, Eagles, Elton John, Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Eric Clapton, Donovan, etc. I won’t guarantee every single song is good for studying, since I’m the kind of guy that studies to whatever I like, but I believe those are fairly soft. Some are upbeat though, but still gentle and not loud.
I think you already know the answer to this, because you clearly stated that classical music doesn’t have esssence for you. All I can really say to you is as long as you are gaining positive results from the work you do with having the music in your record collection playingin the background, then continue. Music is very subjective personally I like Extreme genres like Death Metal, and Black Metal, I could quite happily work with that music playing in the background, because I feel very at home when I listen to them, But not everyone is comformtable with that kind of music!
