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danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I can’t work to music I just find it too distracting. But watching 2 different episodes of American dad, whilst working? Not a problem

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  • FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The music for me can vary, i find music without lyrics is easier to concentrate with. Stuff that sounds classical or instrumental rock/metal is what i tend to play for concentration

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If you’ve got any tracks you can lay on me my fedbrother, it’s be much appreciated

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      • Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Not OP, but instrumental metal for working: Karma To Burn, Red Sparowes, Pelican (Pelican can feel a little souless but that’s my opinion).

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      • scytale@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Try film scores. That’s what I use when studying for certification exams. I listen to Jóhann Jóhannsson, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Thomas Newman, Nick Cave, Nico Muhly, Max Richter, and of course some Hans Zimmer as well.

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      • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Check out Bantha Rider.

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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I have an internal monologue.

  (I say this because this is apparently somewhat uncommon)

  Music with lyrics tends to make it more difficult for me to focus on my own thoughts, whereas music without lyrics tends to be much more effective at helping me focus on my own thoughts.

  Of course, some music without lyrics is… just too jarring or loud in some way… but whenever a song has lyrics, those lyrics are basically taking up the same … memory channel, bandwidth lane, as my own thought process.

  Same with any background conversation, actual people, TV, whatever, doesn’t matter.

  Human voices throw off, to some extent, my ability to literally think through a complex process.

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This makes sense. I notoriously don’t pay attention to lyrics in songs normally, so that doesn’t interfere with my concentration.

    You got any playlist that help you concentrate?

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Unfortunately no, I don’t have a playlist that I could share or recommend in good faith, not at the moment.

      But if you mean more generally, just, what do I listen to, to help concentrate?

      Hrm.

      Various chiptuny, melodic beep bloopy music… sometimes things with rolling or constant bass or drum lines or something… ‘Conga Fury’ by Juno Reactor, ‘One of These Days’ by Pink Floyd, or ‘Tick of the Clock’ by the Chromatics…

      But, sometimes much more laid back and chill stuff, lounge background music type stuff, ambient electronica, Boards of Canada type stuff…

      Sometimes various classical songs.

      Sometimes literally Mongolian throat singing, which I guess does not register to my brain as speech.

      It depends on my mood, lol.

      And also the … level of instensity of what I’m trying to do, whether or not its very physical, very mental, or both.

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      Going even further, a decade ago now, I actually tried to see if I could find some kind of actual… threshold, where my brain, or I, whatever, can’t really decide if its ‘vocals’ or not, in terms of 'does this mess with my ability to concentrate.

      And that is how I ended up finding TOBACCO / Black Moth Super Rainbow.

      … Nobody really sounds like them.

      The way they make their sounds, you’d think its digital, but apparently its all analogue… they have a very strange way of … making, and then using, some kind of vocoder.

      … I would basically describe the music as what a good LSD trip … sounds like.

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      • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Thanks, I’ve got some homework now!

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lindsey Stirling, lofi girl

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• voytrekk@sopuli.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It depends. If it is something that is monotonous, then music helps keep me focused. If it requires deep thought, then it can be distracting. Picking the right music for either option can also help.

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• serpineslair@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  +1

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