Effect of Fast Tempo Songs on Heart Rate of Young Adults

Music is the big part of human life. It's competent of numerous health benefits including lowering stress levels, raising states of consciousness and changing moods. Numerous studies reported that music has favorable physiological effect on human especially during stress, anxiety and depression [1, 2]. Listening music that imitate or improves their emotional state [3, 4], manipulate emotions [5 ] decreasing HR, and blood pressure (BP), and pain reduction [6]. However; it's mainly based on the fast or slow tempo of music, extreme music leads to emotions, anger and aggression [7] tension [8] leads stress. Most of the earlier studies showed that music has positive effect but only limited study shows the negative effect of music [9] hence, this study has been undertaken. The purpose of the present study is to assess whether the different music tempo has direct effect on increasing HR in normal adults.