Post Your Best Work/Study Music

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Study music?

Silence. Hacking music (which as an adult is really the same as studying)?

Metal–preferably melodic, at 130bpm. Which usually means it is Swedish and it is Death Metal.

Don’t get me wrong, though. America produced the most legit fake metal band ever with Dethklok. A fair amount of their fake music is in my hacking playlist, rivaling only In Flames.

An interesting aside, my running playlist was originally this, as 130bpm is the right cadence for my stride. Later I worked out it was great for hacking as well.

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No Dragonforce? (It’s gotta be 160bpm, but haven’t checked)

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Right mood, way too fast.

Fun fact: they are not too well respected in prog metal circles. They (I am told) have trouble playing their own songs live. Unlike the godfathers of the scene, Dream Theater, who the crowd cheers when they mess up.

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My metronome is saying about 182.

That’s a good swift clip. No wonder I could never play it on GH3.

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I did a mental check without a metronome–if you hum the Stars and Stripes you will hit 120.

Another factoid, I have a Charlie Parker book around somewhere with a song that has a bpm of 300+. Of course it’s all eighth notes, but he was fast.

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Stayin’ Alive is recommended humming while doing CPR because of its 120 bpm.

ETA - Wow, I tried it, Stayin’ Alive totally matches Stars and Stripes!

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Then you might like:

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Positively madcap!

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Not exactly study music, but may I interest you in ОПА!, a Russian klezmer brass band?

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That set looks like the Moldovan version of Hee-Haw. And there’s even a hammer dulcimer!

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Tro-lo-lo!

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That. Is. Wonderful.

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One of the best life acts I know - but the videos and albums are great, too.

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Brought to you by the Random Generator God out of my music collection, both are imho useful background sounds while working:

Das Hobos:

Trio Zahg:

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They’re realer than real, though.

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They’re not very loud, so sometimes it helps to take two.

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If you liked Das Hobos: LeRoy is more or less identical (and is part of the same artists circle)

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Reviving this to submit a vote for Nils Frahm music.

At present I am listening to

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Thanks. :slight_smile:

I do have a list for this one, not sure if it’s all fitting in the topic:

I stop, fandom is a joy, but boring to others.

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Agreed.

Recently, I’ve been listening to the Homestuck albums:

It’s a good variety of decent types of instrumental music. A few of the songs in the discography have lyrics, but not many.