![]() In 2016, after I'd switched from iTunes to Spotify, a friend sent a hypnotic dance track that randomly led to running perfection. "Begin By Letting Go," by the London-based DJ known as Etherwood, spoke of shrugging off all the worries that grumbled around in my brain as I stepped reluctantly out of the front door. The spare piano track and humming bass soothed me into Zen-like trance. The tripping beat matched my short-but-rapid forefoot strides. ![]() And the break gave me a chance to slow down and check myself for aches and pains before picking up again, more joyfully insistent than before. Nothing in "Running Most Wanted" had ever come close to this feeling, like I was floating down the street and could keep going at this pace forever. The mind craves novelty, of course, so you can't just listen to the same track over and over for the length of a multi-mile run. (Believe me, I tried.) But Spotify does a pretty good job of playing similar tracks automatically when you're done, and slipping more of them into your Discover Weekly playlist.įew of its suggestions worked for me. Most were a tad too slow, or distractingly discordant. But they did clue me into the fact that Etherwood's beat was Drum & Bass, or D&B - a genre I'd enjoyed dancing to in clubs, when I occasionally went to them, in the late 1990s. Turns out the Beats Per Minute of all D&B is in the range of 160 to 180 BPM. ![]() Etherwood's trance-like tunes tend to sit at the top of that range.Ī D&B DJ had accidentally become my running coach. Why did that ring a bell? Because years earlier, I'd been told the ideal cadence for runners - the number of times your feet hit the ground in a minute - was 180. ![]() I'd just never bothered to time it, but I guess I had now. #PRACTICA MUSICA WILL NOT OPEN ON IOS SERIES#Ī D&B DJ had accidentally become my running coach.#PRACTICA MUSICA WILL NOT OPEN ON IOS FULL#. ![]()
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