My personal favorite to listen to, and have been doing so for 6 or so years, is to put Derek Trucks Band on repeat. Really good, soulful blues, but not too in your face.
For me it's not what I listen to, It's how loud I listen to it. If it's too quite I try to focus on the music. Too loud and I can't think. I need that perfect middle ground for ultimate concentration.
when i study, wriite a paper, etc. and need to focus i listen to piano music.i use pandora alot and when i need to concentrate especially if im high i put on the "Ludovico Einaudi" station.
its hard for me to focus while listening to music with a beat.
i cant tell if what i just wrote is comprehensible; i just took two dabs and im coming down off of a 3 day ritalin and vyvanse binge. i think in the last 65 hours i've slept a grand total of 8-9 hours; to say the least is was very productive/druginducedrant.
some classical, instrumental covers, mostly piano/violin (vitamin string quartet). Occasionally I will play some EDM/similar to get pumped up a little and like finish a paper or something
None, and any of you saying you focus better with music(mainly with voices) are wrong. Your brain cannot multitask, it's physically impossible. For your brain to process the voices in the song it has to shift attention away from study material, effectively making you not learn it as well.
says who? and if one is listening to an instrumental track to drown out the voices of people they would otherwise be hearing (in a library for example) isn't that for the better?
For me, I can only listen and work for topics like math, physics, and chem. But as soon as the subject requires articulating verbal responses the music has to be very low or off.