Benefits of Playing Musical Instruments

The piano is a fantastically rewarding, therapeutic and challenging instrument, and a really enjoyable hobby. It can also be a skill for life and a career, or simply an aid to improvement of communication, memory, independent learning and well-being. Music lessons teach self-discipline and time-management skills. Much research illustrates a profound link between music and intelligence. More specifically, many studies demonstrate that piano lessons- for even the most "challenged"- will markedly improve a student's success and intelligence, notably in math, science and reading. Piano lessons are an enjoyable and scientifically proven educational method to increase a student's coordination, concentration, and confidence.

Musicians use both sides of their brains more frequently than average people. When we play a musical instrument at the same time we utilize diverse processing centers from both sides of the brain. We often hear about an analytical person, like an accountant, being left-brained while a more “free spirit”, like an artist or poet, is considered “right-brained”. expertly prepared performers all the more viably utilize an innovative system called different reasoning, and furthermore utilize both the left and the correct sides of their frontal cortex more intensely than the normal individual. One possible explanation for the musicians’ elevated use of both brain hemispheres is that many musicians must be able to use both hands independently to play their instruments.

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