Sara Leila Sherman
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Different types of music do different types of things for us. Our brains start firing our neurons 300 to 500 milliseconds after it's exposed to music. So that's faster than we have a conscious thought or before we can even recognize the melody.
Hi, Mike. Thank you for having me.
70% of Americans listen to music for three to four hours a day. So then when we think of music and how much we're consuming music anyway, that's a lot of hours. But the idea of intentionally using music to help with our focus, our cognitive functions, our emotional awareness, community building, we don't necessarily put the thought into that in our everyday lives. And so that's what...
I love talking about is how we can intentionally use music as that tool to bring presence into our everyday lives.
Absolutely. But I have to ask, do you like that music or do you find, you know, the idea of the masseuse and the waterfall and the flute music? To me, that doesn't resonate with me. So it's almost makes me a little anxious instead of relaxed. Do you actually find that you are more relaxed when you hear that type of music in that setting?
OK, so I'm going to answer your question and then you just spurred something else that I love talking about as music, as a cue in the absence of music and what that does to our brains. But so it's not always waterfalls and flutes. Different types of music do different types of things for us. Our brains start firing our neurons 300 to 500 milliseconds after it's exposed to music.
So that's faster than we have a conscious thought or before we can even recognize the melody. And what it does, it goes through our auditory cortex to our amygdala, so where we process emotions. So you're right that it makes you feel something, but it doesn't just have to be that because music can help lower our blood pressure and our cortisol levels. And maybe it's Bach.
And in terms of reducing our stress levels and our cortisol, it usually is something with slower beats per minute, usually less than 80 beats per minute and long melodies and not words. Words tend to actually interfere.
Well, absolutely. Death Leopard is then music to motivate or to have a different side of our emotions activated. When we listen to different types of music, it interacts with our amygdala in different ways. So there is a part of our brain that has that section for focus and for kind of this calm music. And I think that's what you're talking about there. But then this other music
ignite something called a groove and a groove isn't just something that we think about when we're you know at a concert or a mosh pit a groove is actually a neurological term when our brain waves are synchronizing so if you think back to a concert or whatever it might be or death leopard when you're in a room with people listening to music that has usually 80 to 120 beats per minute which i imagine death leopard does
It's usually most popular music, and it's the same amount of beats that most of us walk to, so the rhythm of our feet. Our brainwaves synchronize with each other, which creates a sense of community. And it also has this way then of getting in touch with us emotionally. So whatever type of emotion Death Leopard is bringing to you, I imagine that upbeat, that energized, it's not that...
flute masseuse music. It has a point and it has a purpose. And so it's about figuring out what music has a purpose in our lives and how we want to use it at a time to ignite that purpose that we're looking for in that moment.
It is a lot. But it's also the idea that music is often on in the background or what we think of music on as background music or today's world scrolling and social media. And the numbers are actually higher for younger kids, for teenagers in particular groups. where it's eight to nine hours of media consumption a day. And how much of that media consumption is involved with music?
Think back to what you were saying. If the music turns off, what's wrong here? What's happening? And that's actually like hold music. That was the rant I was going to go on before about hold music, where when we're on hold somewhere, we anticipate music. And when it's not there as this cue, we think we've been hung up on.
So we're so ingrained to have music be a part of our everyday lives, whether it's in an elevator, in a store. And so with that three to four hours, If we even take just 20 to 30 minutes, even less, two to three songs a day and say, hey, I'm going to attach this song to focus. Or especially if you're a family and you have young kids, it works really well to have songs be cues.
Hey, when we play this song, it's going to signal shoes and socks on, jackets on, and let's go out the door. And so those songs can, again, through that repetition, become this cue. And the three to four hours...
then it's not just in the background, which music never really is background because like I mentioned, our neurons are firing purposefully according to the music, whether we realize it or not. That's why if you're writing, it might be harder to write when you're listening to music with words. It might be harder to focus if you're listening to Death Leopard versus classical music.
And so that three to four hours is really staggering, but let's put some of that intention behind it.
So in the 1960s, this is one of my favorite stories, you know, switchboard operators. And the story of hold music on phones happened because a switchboard operator accidentally crossed the cable with the local radio show. And so the person on the phone was all of a sudden hearing the radio instead of being switched to where they were supposed to go. And so all of a sudden...
The hold music was patented in the 1960s. It still is under the same patent. And it's really become the signal now in our everyday lives of hold. You know, there's a 1989, there is a Cisco hold music. It's one of the most famous pieces of hold music out there. That's probably what you've heard on repeat. But there's all this research behind the type of hold music nowadays.
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