It is mostly used in fast-paced music, and it is designed to create tension and drama.

Unlike most current affairs programs, The Times made heavy use of short cuts, subtitles and fast-paced music, resulting in an energetic style aimed at younger viewers.

The music, fast-paced and upbeat, became entrenched in Cuban culture, and became known as guaracha.

Daily activities can also be aerobic: walking to work or to run errands, sweeping (perhaps to fast-paced music), playing actively with children, and walking your dog.

What I like," she said, "is fast-paced music to keep up his enthusiasm, so he doesn't get bored and just plod along.

It has been described as a jazz/techno fusion, with "fast-paced" music that includes live recordings of saxophones.

They recommend fast-paced seasonal music to impart some urgency to the spending spree, and to deck the halls with psychologically arousing colours such as red.

And they absolutely loved fast-paced music with a heavy beat.

Restaurant industry studies have found, not surprisingly, that loud, fast-paced music causes customers to eat and drink more and that lulling classical music has just the opposite effect.

A 1991 study by Johns Hopkins University's clinic on health, weight and stress found that fast-paced music made diners eat more.