I just ran across this project:
Obviously worthwhile, even though it seems to hit a few too many buzzwords.
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The BBC shares with us a few suggestions about which music will aid our workouts.
Or maybe:
That'll get your blood flowing!
Karageorghis’s experiments have shown that exercising in sync to a musical rhythm helps us produce more efficient movements, with less energy. The idea is that a network of your brain acts as a central “pacemaker” that sets the pace of the nerve signalling to your muscles. Listening to rhythmic music appears to boost the pacemaker’s activity, leading to greater muscular coordination across the body, so we move further using less energy. “If you are trying to align your cadence with a certain tempo, music can be quite helpful,” says Stork.Oddly, all their suggestions are in the pop music realm. What classical music would make for a good workout? How about this:
Or maybe:
That'll get your blood flowing!
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Lil Nas X is apparently big in pop music. His hit Old Town Road just broke Mariah Carey's record for most weeks at number one. So I guess we have to listen.
To tell the truth, this reminds me, just a tad, of Blind Lemon Jefferson.
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I didn't even know this was a thing. Guinness record for lowest not sung by a woman:
A Welsh musician has recently broken the record for the lowest vocal note (female).
Helen Leahey, the aptly named ‘Bass Queen’, sang from a D5 to a D2 note at an incredibly deep 72.5 hertz(es) in her attempt at the Music School Wagner in Koblenz, Germany.
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In honor of my late posting, here are the Four Last Songs of Richard Strauss sung by Renée Fleming at Lucerne in 2004:
I think Lil Nas X's one song is 'big in pop music'. His 7 EP, where it appears, has eight tracks, one of which is Old Town Road and another is an OTR remix (Billy Ray Cyrus!). No one is doing remixes of Kick It or Panini. (Was just going to baldly assert that but did actually look at Spotify for evidence of remixes of those two and didn't see any, at a quick glance.)
ReplyDeleteWas listening to the woman with the low voice and, while I hope she isn't secretly hoping to sing a bass role at the Met, she did surely capture the attention of the landlady's dog-- he was out in the back yard doing his quota of damage to his dozens of chew toys, giving the squirrels a rest, & my window's open-- bark, bark, bark.
The phenomenon of the "one hit wonder" is well-established in pop music.
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