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Originally posted by DigiNut If you have a jackhammer banging at 300 Hz it would probably scare the living shit out of you, and thus increase your heart rate.

maybe scare the living shit outta you!

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Originally posted by DigiNut If you have a jackhammer banging at 300 Hz it would probably scare the living shit out of you, and thus increase your heart rate.

maybe due to volume... if it were at the same volume as the music who knows...
i like desidels point about the jackhammer.. im guessing it would have no more effect than high paced music at 140 bpm

i think with high paced music.. your body tries to create some sort of synch with the beat.. causing the high pulse

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Originally posted by dEsidEL answer my question ... would ur heart rate still increase?

well i simply dunno but given the theory behind their experiment, a hammer banging 300 times a minute is not really pleasent to listen to so i wouldn't call it music. We're talking about music.

now remember what some call music, other call noise. So the idea is if u find a hammer bannging at trillion times a second as music, then chances are ur heart rate will increase.

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They say that the most relaxing music is that with a beat slower than your heartbeat. So if you've got a low pulse (athlete), it'll take a lot less beats to excite you, than others who are not in shape. I guess thats why slow deep vibes seem more relaxing than listening to Atari Teenage Riot (They're insane on the bpm, like 200+). Try that, play some low beat music and see how it affects the heart-beat, there might be interesting results :P

As for me, any energy-based music gets me going, gets me excited, and if there's an emotional connection to the song, then the effect doubles :P