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I have been pursuing music since 5th grade. I started off in our 5th grade choir, into 6th grade choir, into Odyssey for two years, in Select Ladies Ensemble last year, and Select Ladies Ensemble and Madrigals this year. I've starting playing the piano recently, as well as writing songs about things I've very passionate about as some sort of outlet.

Over the past couple years, I was diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and OCD. I struggled with these things for quite a while, until I decided Im really going to focus on my music. I started putting a lot of work into my choirs and my own work. I wrote songs to better express the words I was trying to get out, and I really put my emotions into what I was singing to just let everything go. But also, just listening to upbeat and happy music puts me in a better mood where I feel all around more confident and joyful.

For my passion project, I want to inform others how music can help depression and anxiety. I will learn how different genres of music helps your mood, and I will create some type of presentation to show the class how greatly music can lift your mood, as well as bring you down. My goal is to get others to really understand how music can affect your mood, so if they’re feeling down, they can listen to the right type of music to lift them up

The purpose of this project is to inform others how music can help with depression and anxiety. I hope to help others understand how greatly music can affect your emotions and give them a way to turn their negativity into something more positive and uplifting.

I hope to learn how sad and downbeat music affects your brain and how we should steer away from it most of the time.

I would like to see a change in the type of music people listen to, and also an increase in how much music they listen to. Many teenagers listen to music that tends to be slow and sad, which usually makes them feel that way. Instead of listening to sad music when they’re sad, they could listen to upbeat and happy music to lift their mood into something more positive.

I want to tell people how making music is even more stress relieving than just listening. They can then share this with the world and let them know how music has helped them!

I hope to impact my community by offering a students a different way out.  Students can learn what they can do to distract themselves and to learn how to look at the brighter things in life. Maybe I can show students how much music really helped me get out of a pretty dark place. And maybe I can really influence others to find something they really love doing and to help ease the symptoms of mental illnesses.

The problem is that many high school students suffer from depression and anxiety and they dont know where to channel their negative thoughts and so they end up staying stuck in the same mental place.
The solution is getting students to listen to the more uplifting music, even if it takes a while, to change their thoughts into something more positive

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http://bwhealthcareworld.businessworld.in/article/The-Effects-Of-Music-Genres-On-The-Human-Brain/27-03-2019-168501/

The website above shows how each type of music can affect the brain. Most music genres leave a very positive affect on our brain, whether its by calming us, or relating to the music in a way that makes you feel understood. However, sad music can be both negative and positive. People with depression like sad music because they can relate to it. However, it also keeps you stuck in the depressive state until you transition to a different style of music. Sad music can also intensify the negative emotions that someone is feeling, which can lead to some very bad things. It can make someone with depression feel good for a little while, but it ends up leaving you feeling very horrible.

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Music affects us physically and mentally. Different kinds of music affect different people differently. Although we may react to various kind of music in our own way, it does affect us all in the same way.
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Our brain can be divided into 4 parts - frontal lobe, temporal lobe, occipital lobe, and parietal lobe. When we listen to music, all four parts react. Though all of them work on different aspects, they all respond. When the music enters our brain it is split into pitch and volume. After that comes the feeling of emotions.

The different effects music can have on your brain depends upon the genre we prefer to listen.

Soothing music like Jazz helps us distress and has healing powers.

Upbeat music releases endorphins and which makes us happy and increases our immune.

Pop music boosts energy and helps us exercise better.

Rhythmic drumming helps in meditation.

Classical music helps in memory recall and also deters crime.

Metal is good for our sense of self and gives a strong sense of identity.

Rap music can help fight against depression.

Country music evokes feelings of internal joy.

Everyone may react to music differently. Some people prefer soothing, calming music while some prefer upbeat and high tempo. Some may be preferential to rap music while some towards instrumentals. But all these genres affect the human brain the same. Music shapes our brain, and listening to different kinds of music engages a larger network of your brain.
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The Effects Of Music Genres On The Human Brain

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To start off, people tend to listen to the genre of music that best matches their mood. For instance, if someone is very depressed, they tend to listen to sad music. If someone continues listening to sad music, they are never going to get out of the trap of depression. The best way to use music to alter your mood, is to slowly change the type of music in which someone with depression listens to. For instance, when someone needs to stop taking a medication, they wean themselves off of it by lessening the dose by the day/week/month. We can do the same with music by starting out where we are, then listening to happier music by the day/week. You'll start connecting more with the happier music the more you keep with it.

We may not want to make the transition from sad to happy, because in some ways, we like being sad. We don't have to worry about keeping things from going wrong, when they are already wrong and messed up. In other ways, people often get negative attention when they are showing signs of depression. I'm not saying people only claim to have depression to get attention, but its also one reason why some tend to want to be sad. The link below goes more into this topic. It explains why people with depression like sad music, and how you can lose motivation to switch to a different genre. Please take a look.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/85328098/sad-music-and-depression-does-it-help

I would really like to see a change in the type of music that high school students listen to. They can listen to upbeat music to really intensify their happy emotions and to get their mind off of the negative things going on.

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Listening to music can make us feel happier, says new study. Picture: Getty

The fascinating new research proves that music heals and suggests that in future, music could be prescribed to help us focus, feel happier, relax and overcome sadness.

New research from the British Academy of Sound Therapy (BAST) has shown there is a common dosage for music and revealed how long an individual needs to listen to it for a therapeutic effect to be experienced.

In recent years, psychologists have proven that music can have a positive effect on our health, so researchers at BAST were keen to discover whether it would be possible to prescribe music to help us with specific mood states.

Their study, Music as Medicine, tested 7,581 participants and found that 89 percent believed music to be essential for their health and wellbeing, so there's no doubt that it plays an important part in our daily lives.

While 90.15 percent participants used music to relax, 81.80 percent used it to make them feel happy, 46.5 percent to process and/or release sadness, and 32.53 percent to aid concentration.

The best music for relaxation had a slow tempo, simple melody and no lyrics, with an optimum listening time of 13 minutes - and many benefits were reported, including 'decreased muscle tension, negative thoughts disappearing, feeling peaceful and contented and being able to sleep better'.
Read more: The best relaxing classical music >
Meanwhile, only nine minutes of music (mostly songs with a driving rhythm, fast tempo and positive lyrical content) is required to make people feel uplifted.

An impressive 89 percent had improved energy levels, 65 percent laughed more and others felt more in control of their lives or able to 'take on anything' - an encouraging result for medical professionals looking for new ways to treat patients with mental health conditions, such as anxiety and depression.

In another study, high-tempo music was also found to enhance performance during exercise - when women training heard pop songs with over 170 beats per minute, scientists found they began to put in more effort, particularly during endurance activities, such as running or cycling.

Are you looking to improve your focus? Of the BAST test subjects who used music for concentration, 13 minutes was enough to clear their mind, help them work better in their job (91 percent) and make decisions more clearly.

And finally, music containing lyrics that people could connect with (again, 13 minutes) was found to be best for sadness, causing listeners to feel a sense of relief, less overwhelmed, more stable and less likely to be triggered by an issue.

Music as Medicine infographic, from The British Academy of Sound Therapy. Picture: BAST

Lyz Cooper, the founder of BAST, has previously collaborated with ambient musical trio, Marconi Union, to produce an eight-minute track designed to relax the listener and induce a trance-like state.

Cooper explained that the track, titled 'Weightless', "contains a sustaining rhythm that starts at 60 beats per minute and gradually slows to around 50', meaning the listener's heartbeat will naturally slow down to match the track's BPM (beats per minute).

BAST's fascinating new study, and Marconi Union's soothing track, are further proof that music does indeed heal - and we're totally here for it.
Listen to 'Weightless' on Spotify:

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Study says music takes 13 minutes to 'release sadness' and 9 to make you happy

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The fascinating new research proves that music heals and suggests that in future, music could be prescribed to help us focus, feel happier, relax and overcome sadness. New research from the British Academy of Sound Therapy (BAST) has shown there is a common dosage for music and revealed how long an individual needs to listen to it for a therapeutic effect to be experienced.

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One way that I like to express my emotions is to write songs about what I'm feeling. It could be to let a secret off my chest, to let anger or sadness out, or even to write about how happy I've become. Usually these songs are quite personal, so I only share them with those who I am really close with. Its one way that I can tell someone how I'm feeling if I cant put the feeling into words. The flow of the music can really just describe how I'm feeling, and often Ill use words to go more into depth.

Now, take this into consideration and let your creativity flow. Write your first song, it doesn't matter if you think it is absolutely terrible. Write it to get your emotions out and sing/play it to yourself and observe how you feel afterwards. If you feel comfortable sharing it with others, even a limited group, go right ahead. The more you share with the world how music has affected you and others, the more the world can change for the better and overall become a more positive place. The link below can explain to you how song writing helps with letting emotions out, as well as how to put emotions into your song writing.

https://mysongcoach.com/add-emotion-to-your-lyrics/

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Let's say you're in love with someone and you want to let that person know how you feel. You could simply walk up to them and say, "I love you." That might work. Or you could make an effort to create the right surroundings: The two of you take a walk along the beach, holding hands on a summer evening, a light mist floating in the air. Then, as the moon rises and hangs like a giant disco ball in the sky, you whisper, "I love you."

Without a doubt, the second option seems more likely to convey your I-love-you message convincingly (except for the disco ball). And while it's not guaranteed to make the other person love you in return, as a songwriter it's definitely going to give your audience a better chance to feel what you're feeling and believe you really are in love! And that's what songs are all about.

When you give your listeners the details of an experience in a way they can see, feel, and touch, you draw them into the experience: they picture the beach at sunset, feel the warm air, and hear the words that are spoken. They're involved in your situation without even thinking about it. Using the physical senses - sight, sound, smell, touch, taste - to convey emotions is much, MUCH more effective than simply telling your audience what you think or feel. Here's how you do it.

=> Visuals take you inside the listener's head

Images and actions can paint pictures in the listener's mind, pictures that can evoke an emotion, tell a story, or create a lasting impression. When your listener is mentally engaged in visualizing an image or seeing an action take place, they're doing more than just passively listening; they're actively participating. When this happens, they're more likely to be emotionally moved, remember your lyric, and want to hear it again. This is why it's so important to "Show. Don't tell." It's an essential lyric writing tool.

"Show. Don't tell" can help you...

Paint a picture for your listener.

Avoid long explanations.

Bring an abstract idea to life.

Vividly tell a story or describe a character.

For example, in Beyoncé's hit song "Halo" instead of saying: "You're a special, wonderful person I know I can trust and love," she simply says: "I can see your halo." The image makes a deeper, more lasting impression than simply stating what she thinks. And, as an extra bonus, the image of a "halo" comes with a lot of positive associations: heaven, angels, beauty, light, love, and kindness. All of these associations resonate for the listener, adding layers of meaning, richness, and feeling. That's the power of an image.

Here's an example of how images can help you express an emotion quickly and effectively. This is a verse from Nickelback's song "Someday."
I wish you'd unclench your fists
And unpack your suitcase
Lately there's been too much of this
But don't think it's too late.
The picture painted by the phrase "Unclench your fists and unpack your suitcase" conveys a huge amount of information about the situation. There's conflict and someone is ready to walk out. We can picture the packed suitcase and clenched fists. We get a vivid, immediate glimpse into a an emotional drama in just a few words. In these four lines, the songwriters avoid having to go into a long explanation that might not keep the listener's interest.

=> Use all of the senses

We sometimes describe anger as being "hot under the collar." We try to calm down by "staying cool." We talk about "the smell of fear" or a "velvet soft voice." We use all of our senses to express emotion. So, don't limit yourself to visuals, although sight is the sense that we tend to favor most. Including all of the senses - sight, sound, touch, taste, and hearing - can give your song added depth, persuasiveness, and memorability.

Is the singer feeling cold or warm? Is there a scent on the air or a taste on the tongue? Does the singer hear someone's voice? What does it sound like? These sensations often evoke emotions in both the singer and listener. For example, when Coldplay sings...

It was a long and dark December
From the rooftops I remember
There was snow, w hite snow
Clearly I remember
From the windows they were watching
While we froze down below. ("Violet Hill" - Coldplay)

...the listener can sense the isolation and loneliness the singer feels, literally being out in the cold. Then, when he sings the refrain "If you love me won't you let me know" it becomes a heartbreaking plea.

=> Use the physical experience of emotions

Emotions are physical things - that's probably why they're called "feelings." We actually feel them in our bodies. Let's use the emotion of "falling in love." What does it physically feel like? Well, for one thing, it feels like "falling." Suddenly the ground beneath your feet is shifting. Think back to a time when you were crazy in love and try to describe the physical sensation in words and phrases.

Here are a few ideas that I think of: Floating. Flying. Off-balance. Dreaming. Can't stop smiling. Spinning. Dizzy. Warm. The world looks lighter, like there's more sunshine, more air, more room!

Go ahead and make a list of words that describe how you feel when you're in love. They may be similar to ones I just mentioned. Feel free to use those and add more of your own. If you can't think of any right away, take your time. Add to your list throughout the rest of the day.

=> Use a family of associated words and images

Once you have a list of words and phrases that physically describe the feeling, make another list of images, ideas, and objects you associate with these. Most words come with a family of associated ideas. So, "flying" might suggest kite, balloon, bird. "Dizzy" could suggest carnival ride, which could then suggest cotton candy, etc. Don't leave a word off just because you think it doesn't make sense. If it occurs to you in connection with another word, go ahead and write it down.
To learn more about using images in your song, watch this video.
=> Turn your word lists into a lyric

Choose a word or phrase from your list and use it in the opening line of a verse or chorus. For instance I could start with "Flying like a big red balloon" because "flying" was in my description of how love makes me physically feel and "balloon" was an associated word. I had "sunshine" on my list, so next I might try... "Shining like the sun on the end of a string."

Now I'm picturing this balloon/sun tied to someone's heart. I like that image so I'll use that. "Tied to your heart, whenever you're around. Rising light as air, off of the ground."

The "around/ground" rhyme was a little gift, so I'll keep it for now but don't worry too much about rhyming. Just keep building your images and sensations. As you think of more, add them to your lists and use them as needed. You don't want to put an image or physical sensation in every line. But be sure to use enough that your listeners know what the emotion feels like so they can experience it themselves!

This is great raw material to build a song on, and an important component of effective lyric writing. Go ahead and choose an emotion. Make your own word lists based on it and try to rough out a chorus or verse.

by Robin Frederick

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Let's say you're in love with someone and you want to let that person know how you feel. You could simply walk up to them and say, "I love you." That might work. Or you could make an effort to create the right surroundings: The two of you take a walk along the beach, holding ...