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How to Write Music Sensory Integration Loops

Human sensory integration, when functioning properly, allows people to learn at a normal pace, as well as to sort out senses and information that the brain receives. This allows people to filter out unimportant, external distractions in a loud or busy environment when trying to focus on a specific task. Great sensory integration can even cause people to excel in different specific areas that involve coordination and artistic ability, such as painting or basketball. However, all five senses do not always integrate in perfect harmony, and disorders can result. There are therapy methods, such as using specific music, that stimulate different senses and can reverse a lack of coordination.

Things You'll Need

  • Audio editing software
  • Audio creation software (optional)
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Instructions

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      Purchase an audio editing program if you want to loop or combine sound files that are already recorded. Purchase a program with a MIDI creation or recording component if you want to make your own songs. Programs such as Reason, Pro Tools, Ableton and Logic all have components that allow you to edit as well as create musical loops.

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      Listen to songs on an approved audio integration therapeutic list, such as the one established by the AIT Institute.

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      Download or import these and other similar songs to your computer and open them in your editing program. Create your own songs if you have musical talent or experience and have the appropriate equipment.

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      Write and select songs or song parts that have an upbeat tempo and an extremely wide variety of frequencies. This one of the most important aspects of songs that have an effect when used in audio sensory integration. The average commercially played music has a narrow range of frequencies of just below 1,000 hertz and not rising above 3,000 hertz. However, low, bass frequencies can be heard at 20 hertz, and high-pitched frequencies may rise to more than 20 kilohertz. Using audio equalizers in your songs can boost different lesser-used frequency ranges, which helps with the therapy.

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      Copy the entire track once you have created your song, whether it is original or mixed. You can loop sections by pasting them next to each other as many times as you desire. Then you can export your track at any length to other places, such as an MP3 player. You can also press the "Loop" button in your program to let it play over and over until you stop it, but it can only be played this way while it is open in that program.

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