Study Music, Part 2

Yesterday I had mentioned that there are two types of people: those who can study while listening to music, and those who cannot. As I am not in the latter group, I have lumped them together as a bunch of people who are easily distracted…like I’m not, but that’s beside the point. (Just so you know, right now I’m listening to Martha’s Dance/The Russian Dervish, which is a very frenetic song. In a moment I will be listening to The Battle from Chronicles of Narnia, which is much more relaxing and uplifting. I simply know that is what I will be listening to as the player just switched over to that. I would tell you what I would be hearing next, but that would require my switching windows to look up the title, so I’ll leave you with the clue that it’s a slightly longer piece, and wait until it switches on to tell you what it is. Isn’t iTunes wonderful? You can tell it to play songs by shortest to longest or visa versa.) The former group, that of people who are able to study while listening to music (and, by my previous fallacious reasoning, those who are NOT easily distracted), can be further divided into two more groups: Those who simply ignore the music, and those who actually listen to it. There is a very fine line between the two.

Those who ignore music have been gifted with the ability to focus on only one thing. Kinda like Annie, who could only focus on zoning during class. But I digress. Like (Ah! The track just switched. I am now listening to Reel Around the Sun….) those who cannot listen to music while studying, I do not fall in this group, so I will move on to the group I find more interesting; those who can actually listen to music while studying.

Those parentheses really mess up that sentence.

Ah! I’ve found out what we are. We are multi-taskers. How exactly that differs from being easily distracted, I don’t know, but it does, somehow. Perhaps just by the fact that it makes me feel better.

Actually, Zack, if you want the bare bones truth, I’m just very hyper and sensitive, and nice relaxing Catholic Masses seem to soothe my nerves. And, once my hyper-sensitivity is soothed, I can actually focus on grammar, logic, and intensely complicated problems of any type, be it Algebra or C.S. Lewis’ more complicated and deep writings.

That said, I do not really care to listen to La Musica Notturna Delle Strade Di Madrid Number 6 Opus Whatever-it-happens-to-be (30) by Lugi Boccherini. Although, from about 4:15 to 6:32 is a really neat cut. It also happens to correlate to a really neat scene at the end of Master and Commander: Far Side of the World.

But I digress. More music notes tomorrow.