Also when studying a foreign language, listening to music in that language seems to help.

A favorite song to study with is Light of Day, Day of Darkness by Green Carnation definately a great study song, it goes for an hour and i don't get sidetracked listening too overly catchy riffs.

Since I have been more or less in a study mood lately, I must say that the music that goes pretty well with studying would be definitely post-rock for me...maybe also atmospheric rock. Easy, dreamy melodies...as long as distracts the other noise around me is good for me. Besides, it's also an amazing genre in general, so it fits just perfectly...

Classical music helped me a lot while attending engineering at the university. I had the best results with Mozart in the background. I also had a list of what music to listen to in which studying occasion. It went like this:

- Math related subjects: Mozart, Bach, Chopin, Haydn
- Physics related subjects: Loreena McKennitt, Blackmore's Night
- Engineering related subjects: all kinds of ballads
- Lab related subject: Kamelot, Manowar, Helloween, Saxon, Stratovarius (power metal mostly)
- Computer science: instrumentals from DIO, Metallica and Satriani
- All the other subjects: no music since the topics were boring and you needed full concentration to manage it to the end


Sometimes handling a small sword when studying physics is so power metal XD

Classical for sure.

Music distracts from studying. Especially metal. It's hard to study when your head is involuntaraly flaying back and forth.

Listen to Mozart, or Vivaldi.

I also like Wagner and Rachmaninoff, but Tchaikovsky takes the cake for me.

Not to study though. Just for a change of scenery momentarily. Studying is a secondary task for me, so what I'm listening to doesn't matter. I'd probably go with atmospheric black or sludge, but it wouldn't throw me off if I threw on something like Prostitute Disfigurement or Khanate.

I like all of them. lol RAchmaninoff is a little chaotic for study though. lol

...And despite what I said earlier, I'm doing homework while listening to The County Medical Examiners.

None at all, I have a lack of concentration when there is music or even television blaring in the background.

The only times I really listen to Bach et al., I'm pretending to be an academic and studying something for school. Otherwise, if I'm reading something merely for the sake of reading it (something I haven't been doing enough lately), I try not to listen to anything. Especially while reading novels. I think of it as a favor to the author. Let Bellow do the emotion controlling, y'know?

I study best with either classical or extreme doom. I always need music to listen to while working, it motivates me...

I'm studding electrical engineering and computing ,and listen to black metal on all subjects.....I think that listening to only the music which you like can improve your study results....

I don't think I listened to music when I studied during junior high or high school. During my university years I played a lot of Mozart's symphonies, piano concertos and violin concertos when I studied. If I tried to listen to metal, I would not retain any information because I was too into the music to pay attention to what I was trying to study. That even happened with Mozart from time to time.

I can't study with music on. I already have short attention span about studying as it is...

When you don't get what the song is about ('cause you just don't understand anything)... uh, that's the best. I mean, some death metal and grindcore.

Written by Ragana on 02.05.2011 at 02:45

When you don't get what the song is about ('cause you just don't understand anything)... uh, that's the best. I mean, some death metal and grindcore.

Or that dreadfully annoying Chinese music my friend has to put up with in work.

Written by ANGEL REAPER on 27.04.2011 at 14:38

I'm studding electrical engineering and computing ,and listen to black metal on all subjects.....I think that listening to only the music which you like can improve your study results....

That only helps you mess around and loose focus on the potential engineering offers. I had many friends doing the same as you during college days and actually it made them be somehow a little outcast from the variations outside. While the every genre listeners are better engineers today
It also helped me as well listen to particular genres for particular subjects. Never listen to black metal while studying XD

I don't really study at all... I only listen to Metal (or play video games, or surf on web, or do it all at same time). Anyway my grades are better than mostly of my classmates at university.
If I really have no choice and have to study anything, I choose Children of Bodom or Dragonforce.

For some reason Prog Rock helps me study, either that or classical. I find it more difficult to study and listen to metal at the same time.

I'm my case, diagnosed as hyperactive in my childhood, while I was studying engineering I required music to study for two reasons: a) noise isolation from anything outside the room and b) music managed to occupy most of my "mental hyperactivity" so the rest of me could focus on the subject.
Because of my tastes I tried first with melodic death, wich proved to be quite a good choice for a few reasons:
- Lyrics aren't that clear to understand (at least for me) so they didn't distract me.
- It doesn't sound too chaotic or complex.
- It has a fair amount of double bass drumming, wich manages to occupy my motion hyperactivity. Extreme cases of hyperactivity may require a more extreme metal.

Written by Yavanna on 02.05.2011 at 14:25

I don't really study at all... I only listen to Metal (or play video games, or surf on web, or do it all at same time). Anyway my grades are better than mostly of my classmates at university.
If I really have no choice and have to study anything, I choose Dragonforce.

You seriously defined me about 5 years ago.



Nowadays, when I really have to study, I put some Classical/(Soft)Jazz Fusion/Ambient/Dark Metal when it's easy to study, and Tech Prog when it's something hard and I need some stimulus.

It depends on my mood:

Grunge
Polish Rock\Pop
Katatonia, Isole...
Old School Thrash Metal (some bands)
Brutal Death Metal (some bands)

I listen to music before studying to motivate myself, and after to relax because most of the time I feel like my head's on fire after.

Written by Rigantona on 02.05.2011 at 13:48

Written by ANGEL REAPER on 27.04.2011 at 14:38

I'm studding electrical engineering and computing ,and listen to black metal on all subjects.....I think that listening to only the music which you like can improve your study results....

That only helps you mess around and loose focus on the potential engineering offers. I had many friends doing the same as you during college days and actually it made them be somehow a little outcast from the variations outside. While the every genre listeners are better engineers today
It also helped me as well listen to particular genres for particular subjects. Never listen to black metal while studying XD

but i keeps me focused so i listen to it.....btw i really hate classical so Mozart will be worst choice
BTW i am the "headphone" kind of listener of metal so i dont see how i could waste an energy....and also i find this engineering things as natural for me as breathing

Written by ANGEL REAPER on 03.05.2011 at 19:57

Written by Rigantona on 02.05.2011 at 13:48

Written by ANGEL REAPER on 27.04.2011 at 14:38

.....btw i really hate classical so Mozart will be worst choice

lol... If you really hate a form of music, you cannot concentrate on anything other than turning the shit off!

Written by Ghostdancer on 03.05.2011 at 20:54

Written by ANGEL REAPER on 03.05.2011 at 19:57

Written by Rigantona on 02.05.2011 at 13:48

Written by ANGEL REAPER on 27.04.2011 at 14:38

.....btw i really hate classical so Mozart will be worst choice

lol... If you really hate a form of music, you cannot concentrate on anything other than turning the shit off!

exactly ...

When it comes down to it, any music that is "engaging" is pretty bad to study for me. I find myself listening to every little discernible nuance in any kind of "intelligent" music such as classical, and pof course music as energetic as most electronica or metal is just distracting. Oddly enough I find Iron maiden's Piece of Mind good study music, considering its a fairly melodic yet might I say smooth album. Another song I've found good at drowning out "other" music when trying to study in my car with someone blasting music is Ulver's "Perdition City". Nothing too discernible and the smooth sax just sooths me to focus more.

Generally, something more ambient. Extreme doom metal, depressive black metal, post metal, shoeglaze, post rock, dark ambient, drone metal etc.