Music+Effects+on+Heartrate+and+Blood+Pressure,+Merima,+Jeanisha,+and+Keva

We will take 21 people 7 a day and have them listen to an R&B and classical songs. We will take the blood pressure before and then after each song and in between each song we will do a 5 minute break. Each song will be about 3 minutes long. We will keep the age range the same 15-16 years old. Our music setting will take place in a quiet setting and the time of day will also be the same. We will have to keep everything at a constant so there will no errors that will affect our results. Lots of people listen to music and lots of different genres of music. When people listen to music they may be having internal reactions which are unknown to them, specifically there blood pressure may be directly affected. Some genres of music may help people with high blood pressure, while some people may have a fine blood pressure and badly influenced by certain genres or have a bad blood pressure worsened. In the classroom we had set up 5 chairs lined them up in a row across the facing the front, and we had a laptop to play music from in the back of the room. We then had people sit in the chairs, and requested that stay as still as possible to avoid any flaws in the experiment. After seating the five people down we began to test. We started by taking each person’s blood pressure with sphygmomanometer which is used to measure blood pressure  before they listened to the music and we recorded our data. Then we took a hat and label one piece of paper Classical then another piece of paper R&B and picked out the hat so that we don’t play the same music first. Next we played the first piece of music that was picked out of the hat which the song was three minutes long. After the song was over we waited a minute then took the blood pressure of our 5 subjects 3 at a time then the last two. We recorded our results and after recording our results we compared them to the results taken before the music was played. We took a three minute rest break before playing the last piece of music. The people were instructed to stay still in their chairs for 3 more minutes for the duration of the song. We followed the same procedure as before by taking blood pressure one minute after the song, recording data, waiting three more minutes and then taking every person's blood pressure again and then recording data. After tgaking akll the needed measurements fropm our first group of 5 we continued with our next 2 groups following the exact same procedures, recording data, and comparing it. We used the same but sample size of 5 in one more trial that we conduct on an addtional day following the first, in order to achieve best accuarcy and plenty of data to compare. The length of the songs used, volume levels, genres, and songs themselves remained constant however the order of the songs did not as we used randomiuzation to determine the order of songs for each of the three groups.