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Singing Together Synchronizes Heart Rates

From the “So there really is something to this ‘music unifying us’ department” comes research that shows that singing together synchronizes heart beats. Pretty cool stuff, music is important y’all. Check out the original article here.

Music Transformation – An Exciting New Realm

There’s something exciting about finding out what happens to music when you use it in unintended ways. The amazing transformations of sound that can happen can often be more amazing than the originally intended format. An example is slowing down electronic dance music 20,000%, as shown in this video: [youtube width=”600″ height=”365″ video_id=”J3x1mF391BE”]

Major or Minor?

There’s a guy out there who takes the time to transpose popular songs out of their native minor key into the nearest major key. It’s pretty interesting to see how much it changes the delivery of the song. [vimeo width=”600″ height=”365″ video_id=”57685359″]

Music Is Important – watch music unlock humanity

Music makes us who were are. It becomes part of us and touches places in our brain and soul that other things simply can’t access. Anyone who “loves” music knows about this, but this video makes it so obvious and touching that I simply had to share.