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621971088658.94.85357385814810.39.7580Table 6　Results of Group 6 Memorization and speedSlow musicTable 6 shows the results of the last group, Group 6, who did the memorization task while listening to a rap and a ballade. Results of S35, S36, S37, S39, and S42 indicates that listening to music while memorizing makes it difficult to memorize, compared to listening to nothing, since the number of capital cities they were able to memorize was the largest in the no music condition. It should be noted that S36 was exceptional since S36’s memorization ability was high and he was able to memorize incredible number of capitals in all the conditions. To summarize, for Groups 4 and 6, we could not find any common tendency between the results obtained while listening to nothing or listening to music. However, we found different tendencies in terms of accent for Group 4 and speed for Group 6. The reason we could not find any common tenden-cies was because the results differed greatly among individuals. However, six out of seven people in Group 4 answered that they felt it easier to memo-rize while listening to Indian English music compared to Native English music. For Group 5, the results came back generally better when listening to no music. When we compared between high-pitched and low-pitched songs, high-pitched songs showed better results. We could not find any correlation between the scores and the two questionnaire items mentioned above.Discussion and ConclusionJudging from the results, the best circumstance when studying might be to study without any background music because the participants in the No musicGroup 6S35S36S37S38S39S40S41S42S43MSD1037146113717412.110.4Note: N = 9. S35 = student 35.Fast musiccurrent study generally scored better under the no-background music condition. However, if the noise in someone’s environment is annoying and requires them to listen to some music, it seems that the ideal type of music people might want to listen to depends on what they study. According to the results, it was suggested that playing slow music or music at a low pitch when doing calculation tasks might be good because the participants were able to finish the calculation task faster under the conditions in the low pitch song and also the slow music conditions than those under counterpart conditions. These results do not support what Abe and Shingaki (2010) argued1). They argued that tasks which require attention and stress to our brain are not easily affected by the tempo of the background music, which implies that people concentrating on the calculation task do not easily get affected by the tempo of the background music. The results of the current study, however, showed that playing slow music or music at a low pitch might be good for calculation tasks. These results showed that it is difficult to generalize the best type of music to listening to for calculation tasks. When doing memorization tasks, it may be best to play music they have never listened to before because the novelty of the song puts the mind in a more receptive state. This was concluded from the fact that the scores while listening to Indian music were the best and everyone claimed that they were hearing that song for the first time.Since we asked the participants to carry out the same multiplication procedures three times in a row, they might have gotten used to the numbers. The use of tasks with comparable difficulty or the use of counterbalanced design was preferable5). As a result, we could not accurately judge whether the music affected the time the participants took to complete the calculations or the practice did. To solve this problem, we could have asked them to do one set of multiplication problems each day or prepared three different kinds of calculation prob-lems. In the memorization section, the participants admitted that some capital cities they wrote were ones they already knew, not ones they had memo-rized during the two minutes. The limitation also includes the number of participants. Because the number of participants in each task type was small, low reliability of the tests could have affected the