I have a lot to get through, and would like some easy slowish music to listen to as I am working through some stuff ... any ideas? I'm trying to generate a playlist. Thanks I already have some Chopin and other piano compositions .. but does anyone have any nice non vocal things? or even smooth vocals?
Hmm. I'm not too knowledgeable about easier stuff. When I do work, I listen to Megadeth and Alice in Chains. Yup, not too good for motivational purposes. Maybe you can try some jazz or electronica? That kind of stuff generally does the trick.
When I was studying I'd listen to loads of Chopin, Rachmaninov, Brahms and loads of other classical stuff. Depends what you're into but there's plenty of instrumental music to make playlists from. I think my study playlist had lots of Mogwai, Orbital and Electrelane.
Oooooh. :-----) Yeah there's lots of styles for this, i'll try to post differents things but it's up to what you like, rly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_1-zwBsvjw jazz and electro mix, very slow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjoIOs6OzNc ambient http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaSVkb_XLt4 slowcore http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z4cLmbw6q0 very famous ambient band http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0o8JCxjjpM post-rock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8c9maWYRNo ambient Hope you'll like some. It's non-vocal exepted for the last one (they're very soft though).
Thievery Corporation for the win on this one. Seriously. There aren't too many lyrics, and it's soothing ambient music so it's great for situations like this. That's what I find anyway.
My almost-instrumental/dreamy playlist: Sigur Rós - Samskeyti High Places - Head Spins Sigur Rós - Takk High Places - The Storm Johnny Foreigner - A Light In Every Home/Lights Are Dancing jj - From Africa To Malaga The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Gentle Sons Grizzly Bear - Dory Flosstradamus - Big Bills High Places - On Giving Up Beach House - Zebra Caribou - Sun Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar Jónsi & Alex - Stokkseyri Joanna Newsom - '81 Beach House - Take Care Grouper - Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping Joanna Newsom - Go Long Noah And The Window - Blue Skies jj - Let Go Animal Collective - Visiting Friends jj - Intermezzo Au Revoir Simone - Shadows Ladyhawke - Back Of The Van Swimming With Dolphins - Silhoettes Battles - Rainbow The XX - Shelter Cats And Cats And Cats - Happiness For Lola Solange - Cosmic Journey Caribou - Leave House I have NO idea why i posted that much, not as if anyone's gonna listen to it anyway, but ehh. Oh and add Steve Reich's Music For 18 Musicians too. M83, jj, Joanna Newsom, Beach House, The XX and High Places in general are all "studying music" i guess.
I listen to Mozart when I study. While I don't listen to classical music on a regular basis (even though I enjoy it) I find that if I listen to music that has words, I can't focus on my work.
I have a bunch of awesome movie and tv show soundtracks. Lately I've been listening to the Fringe soundtrack and it's been helpful as usual in doing homework. Beethoven usually does the trick as well.
