General / Off-Topic I'm actually quite curious about something regarding the music one enjoys.

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Why does one feel the need to "dance", whatever format it might be, to music that a given individual enjoys? Is there a scientific look at it? A biological reason, if you will?

I ask, because much to my embarrassment, I'm often caught out smashing my skull with headbanging when I have metal on. Thing is, I can't help it. When I hear metal I love, I feel compelled to headbang.
 

Arry

Arry
There are a few million words written on the subject of music and how it affects our moods.

This IS something you should look into and make use of.

There is a time for head-banging and a time to mellow out.
 

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Arry said:
There are a few million words written on the subject of music and how it affects our moods.

This IS something you should look into and make use of.

There is a time for head-banging and a time to mellow out.
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Indeed. Look, I don't know if I'm looking at this right, but when I am listening to good metal, I really feel like I'm letting go of a lot of unhealthy demons.
 

Arry

Arry
Un1k0rn said:
Indeed. Look, I don't know if I'm looking at this right, but when I am listening to good metal, I really feel like I'm letting go of a lot of unhealthy demons.
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You are just letting go; in-tune with the music. How your mind interprets that, is down to you etc..

I used to like to 'gonking' to loud music, now you call it 'air guitar'.
 

verminstar

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House music and dance music in general are usually mixed on the basis of 130 beats per minute...techno and hardstyles use different rythm techniques but in many cases share the same base timed beats as more mellow genres.

House music isnt so much designed to be music in itself...its a journey for the mind and misunderstood by a great many. Most humans have a rythm not far away from 130bpm...therein lies an answer and the b8irthplace of modern house music was jazz, not rock as some appear to think ^
 

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Arry said:
You are just letting go; in-tune with the music. How your mind interprets that, is down to you etc..

I used to like to 'gonking' to loud music, now you call it 'air guitar'.
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I am of the opinion my finding of metal was good for me.

Back in my college years, just after I escaped from abuse, I was in a very bad state. I would listen to a lot of music. But metal was not one of those genres. Actually, there was a lot of classical. My behaviour during those years? Very aggressive and rather nasty. In general, I wasn't very pleasant at all to be around, to be honest. It's a miracle my mate down the road still considers me a friend today. At this much calmer point in my life, I would, in hindsight, not blame him from walking away.

Anyway, back to the topic. It's when someone first introduced me to an incredibly generic and mainstream band that I can barely consider metal, that I think music started proving to have a certain therapeutic effect.

Eventually I got deeper down the hole of metal, and today I listen to almost all of it.

The genre that I particularly like, and really gets me happy, is power metal. Something about its general sound makes genuinely happy. The albums are often a tale of a hero off to slay a dragon. Little corny, but it gets my energy flowing.

I'm very glad that I found power metal, as it makes me happy, which is a state of mind that is, for me, extremely difficult to experience.
 

Arry

Arry
GJ51 said:
Odd

I was listening to Ludovico Einaudi last night and never felt the impulse to gyrate
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That was last night; tomorrow night you could be listening to a different piece by the same man and feel the need to move, just a little.
 

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GJ51 said:
Odd

I was listening to Ludovico Einaudi last night and never felt the impulse to gyrate
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In my case, I think the fact my brain is very different to most, (not necessarily a good thing), perhaps has an impact on what I respond to? Obviously I'm not a psychologist. I'm always the patient! :p
 

GJ51

GJ51
Arry said:
That was last night; tomorrow night you could be listening to a different piece by the same man and feel the need to move, just a little.
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I guess it's possible, but it does seem a tad unlikely from the albums I've listened to so far.

PS - Really nice exploration music

For both inner and outer space
 
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