music has always seemed to make any indian heart groove to the beat so when a survey was conducted to understand how important a role music plays especially during the current global pandemic it was no surprise that 92 indians said they turn to music when the going gets toughconducted for the world music day celebrated on june 21 each year the survey included 2000 participants across india and found that one in every two adult indians strongly believes that there is no life without musicmusic had an impact on the respondents in four key areasmusic improves mood during the pandemicas per the survey 90 of all respondents claimed that music helped them cope with the selfisolation that the ongoing pandemic brought on indians are listening to music for an extra 45 minutes per day during the coronavirus crisis and 717 participants have created selfisolation playlists while 64 of the surveyed indians believe that music helps them sleep better 71 deem it to be a great motivator during workouts 7970 turn to music to uplift their mood in hard times when only 47 talk to a friendmusic helps increase productivitycan your favourite track playing in your ears increase your efficiency at work the survey revealed that indians do believe that music does make one more productive with 87 respondents claiming that their favourite tracks help them work bettermusic builds connectionsthe study shows that 75 of indians connect with people better if they have the same taste in music while friends have been revealed to be the most influential when it comes to the choice in genre at 72 parents and siblings follow with 429 and 40 respectivelymusic helps makes memoriesmany of the survey participants have indicated that music has assisted them in the celebration of important life events such as graduation 4195 marriage 3015 or even moving to a new city 3215 when it comes to musical skills the study found that 4465 indians started taking music lessons at an early age and 417 have learned to play an instrument or singthe survey was conducted by harman partnering with onepoll