Chabad songs tend to be more of the dvaykus type, designed to help achieve mystical union with God through meditation and reflection. The davykus melody is a slow, introspective song, usually lengthy and sung with deep feeling while dancing slowly, often to prepare for hearing a master's teaching. Hasidism has elaborated a long and rich tradition of dance, song, and story telling, arts cultivated as aids in the service of God. Two Hasidic concepts play important roles in the elaboration of this culture. Thus Hasidic composers, for example, were allowed to hear divinity in the love songs, waltzes, or marches of their non-Jewish neighbors and freely adapted their melodies.
Hasidic music is often wordless.