How to Design Music for a Training Seminar

Webster's defines music as "the science or art of pleasing, expressive or intelligible combinations of tones." Effectively organized tones alter the experience of the listener. In fact, the right music can stimulate the "brain circuitry involved in pleasure and reward" as verified by Canadian researchers using PET scans to chart brain activity.

A well-designed musical soundscape in a training setting can enhance the immediate experience of the attendees as well as increase what they learn and retain. Simply including the right music during the event allows the listener's brain to learn new information better and remember it longer and more effectively.

Things You'll Need

• Selected songs
• Calculator
• Music storage media

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Instructions

1. • 1

     Decide what music style you need for the event. Determine whether multiple moods or styles of music are necessary during the event.

   • 2

     Add the amount of time the music plays before the first seminar session, during the sessions, on breaks between sessions and after the sessions end for the day. Name that number the daily total.

   • 3

     Multiply the daily total times the number of days of the event. Name that number the seminar total.

   • 4

     Compile a list of songs from the music style you chose. Put the length of each song in minutes and seconds next to its title. Total the song lengths on the list. Compare the list total to your seminar total. Add songs to the list until the total song lengths are more than the seminar total.

   • 5

     Revise the order of the songs on the list to match the order that you will use them during the seminar. Note whether any songs serve specific functions during the event.

   • 6

     Choose the media format for the music during the event. Determine if the sound system at the event venue has the capability to play music from the media format you chose.

   • 7

     Put the song recordings in the order you listed.