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Does music make you smarter?

Does listening to music make you smarter? Are certain genres of music (e.g. classical, trance, house, etc.) "better" for you? What impact is electronic music, and the culture of "rip-mix-burn", going to have on this generation and future generations?

Thoughts?

I don't know what effects listening to music has on one, but I read in psych101 that playing music develops different areas of your brain and helps you concentrate/think faster

so.. don't forget to send your kid to music school

id say the more music you listen to the more interesting a person it makes you. wether it increases your intelligence i wouldnt know (and i dont think anybody does)

i hear EDM makes ppl do E so i say NO

I've been told that listening you should listen to classical music while studying for subjects such as math...

Side story:

So I have techno playing in my room tonight.

The friends came back over here after the bar an hour or more ago.

Before Shannon was going out for a smoke she came by my room to get sandals to wear and then heard the techno of course playing... and started dancing around like crazy in my room.

Then Dana 2 mins later comes by (who is also going out for a smoke) and says "Are you coming Shannon?"

And I (who am also dancing around my room to the techno) go: "Shes coming, shes just enjoying some wicked TECHNO!"

and then Dana says: "OH, so you do E too then Shannon??"



(Like as if dancing to and enjoying techno music implies one must do Ecstasy!?! huh?)

i dunno about smarter.. but some musik makes me horny

i dunno about smarter either but it sure does make me feel good i'm such a music junkie JUST STICK IT IN MY VAINS!

p.s john aquaviva is blowing my mind at work right now

Ok, here is my pseudo-psychological answer....

It is a proven fact that association is the best way to remember things - music, especially for me, creates billions of associations in my mind so therefore must increase my memory capacity.

As for impact on generations, I went to Footwork for the oldschool night and the MC kept asking 'Who remembers this, 11 years ago' and there were loads of us screaming. He also asked 'who hasn't been out in months' which means that most people my age are now married with kids but the unity in that place last night spanned a generation if you ask me. 20-35 was the main age group which shows me that EDM is not only a genre, it is a now a full generation, a movement, that will continue FOREVER!!!

End of PLUR rant!!! HAHAHA

ive been playing violin and piano since I was 4. My parents (yes im chinese) raised me so that school came first and then music. So thats all I did, homework and practice violin/piano. I did very well in both. So im not sure what effect it has had on me other than being more creative and and understanding music in general. I dont think Im super smart but Im not super dumb. and I have my parents to thank for my love of edm. they wouldnt let me listen to rap in grade 7 so I came upon euro/trance/rave/etc.

Unfortunately, based on some of the posts I see on this board, no it doesn't.

Re: Does music make you smarter?

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Originally posted by SuperJimbo Does listening to music make you smarter? Are certain genres of music (e.g. classical, trance, house, etc.) "better" for you? What impact is electronic music, and the culture of "rip-mix-burn", going to have on this generation and future generations? Thoughts?

ughh no

I don't know if listening to music makes me smarter but I use it to help me work. I listen to prog/tribal/latin jazz when while I'm working and it helps me tune out everything (not only background sounds but also stray thoughts) which lets me focus on the task as hand. I've tried trance, techno, breaks and jungle too but I find it much harder to focus because my breathing gets faster and my pulse goes up. Could be the flashbacks of good times I've had at the guv.

One thing's for certain, it makes me lose control.

Therefore one can conclude that making music must make you insanely intelligent

i r genius!

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Originally posted by Jem_hadar (Like as if dancing to and enjoying techno music implies one must do Ecstasy!?! huh?)

so you mean it does not?

Scooter - how much is the fish
the drill - the drill
mad 8 - work this pussy


the list goes on... no, electronic music doesnt make me smarter lol but it has some other benefits

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Originally posted by Cosmic Fur Unfortunately, based on some of the posts I see on this board, no it doesn't.

Wholeheartedly agreed with.

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Originally posted by Cosmic Fur Unfortunately, based on some of the posts I see on this board, no it doesn't.

+1

smarter? maybe not. i think the more you expand into music the less biased and predudiced you become on topics that arent necessarily related to music. learning to give something a chance, allows you to later on give something else a chance, dispite whether or not its music related. IMO.

one thing for sure, EDM brings out the hidden energy in me. I'm sure many of you can relate to this too. Over the summer, I did a lot of running. On days when I had no mp3 player, I had trouble doing 10 laps around the football field. But on days when I had my player, with some uplifting trance blasting, I had no trouble getting 20 laps in a single go.

And thnx to EDM, it has kept me awake during every all-nighters I've pulled for studio

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Originally posted by Tordan I don't know if listening to music makes me smarter but I use it to help me work. I listen to prog/tribal/latin jazz when while I'm working and it helps me tune out everything (not only background sounds but also stray thoughts) which lets me focus on the task as hand. I've tried trance, techno, breaks and jungle too but I find it much harder to focus because my breathing gets faster and my pulse goes up. Could be the flashbacks of good times I've had at the guv.

couldn't agree more. I just can't listen to EDM when I need to study/concentrate. I put on classical or jazz instead

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Originally posted by waynoinsano i think the more you expand into music the less biased and predudiced you become on topics that arent necessarily related to music.

Well some people become more biased and prejudiced towards other music genres when they expand into music.

University of California San Diego released a neurobiopsychology study that showed the characteristics found in classical music stimulated more brain neural pathways than those found in any other type of music. This lead them to the conclusion that listening to classical will in fact increase the strength of these pathways which will increase the potential for expanded brain function beyond what one could hope to gain without listening to classical music.
Additionally anything new you can do to challenge your mind and give yourself a mental work out will increase the function of your brain by strengthening the connections the brain opperates on, hence making other opperations less difficult.

....so, yes.

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Originally posted by Cosmic Fur Unfortunately, based on some of the posts I see on this board, no it doesn't.

u mean your own?

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