Im a huge Phil Collins/Genesis fan :-)
As far as listening to music while playing?
2% of people can actually "multi-task" I know i cant, so i dont listen to music while playing.
When people hear that supertaskers exist—even though they know they’re rare—they seem to take it as proof that they, naturally, are an exception. “You’re not,” Strayer told me bluntly. “The ninety-eight per cent of us, we deceive ourselves. And we tend to overrate our ability to multitask.” In fact, when he [and his colleague] asked more than three hundred students to rate their ability to multitask and then compared those ratings to the students’ actual multitasking performances, they found a strong relationship: an inverse one. The better someone thought she was, the more likely it was that her performance was well below par.
I notice the chessbrahs listen to vocal-less type music on every stream with the exception of solomun boiler's room where there are some vocal but 95% EDM/Trance type music.
Is vocal-less music ideal for chess concentration? I don't have any evidence of anyone using vocal type music for chess.
I got tons of phil colins in my ipod. Maybe that's why I'm tilting badly.