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Wadha Al Nabti
Music Production 10
1st November 2014

Report: How does music affect your workout?

Music dates back to the days of Ancient Egyptians, which was around 4000 BC. Exercise dates back to the day's of Adam. Associating music and exercise is a common practice, which is why in 1920 till today research on how music affects workouts is taking place. Fifteen years later scientists discovered a simple tempo change could change the respiration rate. Other than that researchers have found out that the faster the tempo, the greater the effort in the workout, however even with a fast tempo the participants who undertook the exercise chose to accept the pace and hard work made to match the tempo of the music. Seeing as we increase or decrease the work and pace of the workout to match the tempo of the music we listen to. Meaning the higher the bpm, the higher the effort made to the workout.

 Mostly exercise is used to tone the body, be healthy, but most importantly to lose weight. It is a hard journey to lose weight by eating healthy and exercising, therefore any boost would be most beneficial. Moreover the respiration rate changes with the tempo change, meaning the respiration rate matches the tempo of the song. Thus if the music has a high tempo more glucose is being used to create energy, resulting in slimmer bodies with higher bpm's. With this new found information I have decided to make my song to 120 bpm so the user doesn't lose a lot of glucose to be turned into energy as it is only the pre-workout, meaning I'll need that glucose for the real deal. According to Livestrong the higher the tempo of your workout music, the faster you'll fit into those jeans.

1920, until now the human race have concluded that we match our effort, respiration, heart rate to the tempo. Thus if you have a song of high tempo (BPM) while exercising you'll burn more calories than what the numbers say. This is where the numbers lie on the treadmill of how many calories burnt. Music is all around us, and there might be benefits we don't even know about, but thanks to science I've realized music could change the outcome of a workout and how it's executed than a workout without music. In conclusion music affects your workout more than one, first being mentally (accepting more effort to match tempo), physically (heart rate), and subconsciously (respiration), which all helps to create a better workout in the long run.

Works Cited

- Kravitz, Len. "Music and Exercise." Music and Exercise. The University of New Mexico, 1 Jan. 2003. Web. 1 Nov. 2014. <http://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article folder/musicexercise.html>.

- Barnett, Jeff. "How Music Affects Your Workout." Breaking Muscle. Health and Fitness News. Web. 31 Oct. 2014. <http://breakingmuscle.com/sports-psychology/how-music-affects-your-workout>.

- Rosenzweig, Fara. "How Music Can Enhance Your Workout." ACTIVE.com. Active, 1 Jan. 2009. Web. 30 Oct. 2014. <http://www.active.com/fitness/articles/how-music-can-enhance-your-workout>.

- Renolds, Gretchen. "Phys Ed: Does Music Make You Exercise Harder?" Well Phys Ed Does Music Make You Exercise Harder Comments. Nytimes, 25 Aug. 2010. Web. 2 Nov. 2014. <http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/phys-ed-does-music-make-you-exercise-harder/?_r=0>. 

- Peterson, Dan. "Music Benefits Exercise, Studies Show." LiveScience. TechMedia Network, 21 Oct. 2009. Web. 2 Nov. 2014. <http://www.livescience.com/5799-music-benefits-exercise-studies-show.html>.

- Roth, Eric. "Relationship Between Music and Heart Rate." Livestrong. LIVESTRONG, 19 Aug. 2013. Web. 2 Nov. 2014. <http://www.livestrong.com/article/75323-relationship-between-music-heart-rate/>.

#5

Wadha Al Nabti
Music Production 10
30th October 2014

Process Journal #5

This week we continued working on our songs, but not every purpose of a thought, or product is the only use of it. That is why I didn't work on my songs, instead I worked on my report, seeing as my LOGIC X kept on crashing. After attempting to try to work on my report I decided to work on viewing youtube videos on different people using kaossilator, and how to hook it up by myself so I could hook it up for my next lesson so I don't waste Mr. Ball's time. This lesson was very unproductive seeing as all the videos on kaossilators were covers of Swedish House Mafia songs! The next lesson I used the computer so I could work on some tracks there, and then add on my own tracks, however just when I decided to put effort and time into my work logic crashed. That is literally the best definition of my life and how whenever I try to do work something will go wrong, it's as if the universe is telling me I shouldn't do anything at all. Any who after 30 minutes of trying to repair it, Mr. Ball allowed me to use the administrator account, which gave me 15 minutes to add in my own drum line and weird synthesizer thing. I think I'll need more time to work on my song honestly, because I feel like it's such an unfair advantage to use your laptop, but then crash because the memory is too weak. Puts down my self-esteem and confidence, and whenever I try to listen to the song it'll crash and then I'd open it again and it'll download additional content, which resulted into MY DECISION OF HATING LOGIC X PRO 10!!!!

"I really like the melody of the subby bass" - Ahmed El Namoury

Thank you Ahmed with your vague comment maybe you could provide why you like it next time :D (so I can learn what my audience enjoys if I were to create a real song for everyone)

"You should create a mode, by adding in a scale and then changing the first key of the scale, it'll make it sound very tropical" - Habiba

That seems like a very smart idea I'll print some scales on the piano today so I can add it in because I want my song to be quality work

"Seems as if the drum doesn't quite go in line with the subby bass, which could be a turn off." -Hadi

I'll try to quanta-size it so I can see what is the issue because I, myself heard a little gap between the songs.

Photo of my drum line and Subby bass, which sounds like a weird synthesizer:

#4

Wadha Al Nabti
Music Production 10
14th October 2014

Process Journal #4

My aim for this week was to add drums to my song, which is why I jammed out using drums in the practice room. I started off with the drums because I've the easiest thing to do is find a drum beat first then add on synthesizers, guitars, piano, etc. Mr. Ball had suggested that idea to me a year back and that is when I found that it is the easiest and most inspirational way to create a song. Later on I listened to some music with the same bpm as mine to find out that if I were to use this song, where would it be on my gym playlist? What would I be doing that best suits this song? This has lead me with the idea of using my song as the warmup song, seeing as I have a fast bpm, which I need to get my heart rate up in the beginning so I can get accustomed to the rest of the workout. I then listened to some music that was widely popular in the everyday gym user community and I chose the ones that were best to be used as a heart rate raising, warmup song. Moreover I recognised that my song's genre was very different to the songs that I listened to, which is why I've decided to change it into hip hop/ r&b type of song, as it is the only genre I like to listen to when I personally hit the gym. 

Feedback: (on my drum part)

- "it's very simple and catchy, would definitely want me to listen to the tracks you're going to add" - Darwin

Thank you, when I upload my real song onto sound cloud I'll make sure you can download it. 

-"Make it more sophisticated because for now it sounds very cliche" - Shahad 

I'll try to make it more sophisticated, but it'll take time as I'm not very advanced on working with the drums

-"I like the idea of creating an r&b/hiphop song because thats what is mainly being produced currently so you'll have a lot of influences" - Samid

Thank you Samid, I chose it because it's the genre I mainly listen to and I'm very used to it by now and know how to make a nice song.

Samples of my inspiration:

1) Eye of the tiger - Survivor

2) We cant stop - Miley Cyrus