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Do you want to learn to play piano, or keyboard, or acoustic guitar, or electric guitar, or bass, or drums, or any other instrument? Many like you got to this point, but they didn't take any action and they let the fire vanished. The problem with that is it will come in the for of regret. And it gets worse if that was for your child on you never took any action! In the next days we are going to give you a list of steps to take in order to learn Piano or Guitar, or any instrument for that matter. Feel free to contact us if you need any assistance. Decide to learn to play
Deciding to start learning to play an instrument can be as simple as picking one up somewhere, perhaps at a friend’s house, and playing it. The music you create might not sound great to you right away, but in fact, you are already learning that instrument. Musical education and performance, enrichment programs in general, can help to build confidence and self esteem.
According to a study by Dr. Brian D. Ebie of the University of Arizona, subjects reported that playing a sport or performing in an ensemble helped them experience positive feelings about themselves, and provided them with achievable goals—musical or athletic—that also contributed to feelings of personal satisfaction and well being. It can be inferred from these results that the act of self expression and performance before an audience helps to foster higher self esteem in music students. Another benefit from the act of performance as well as participation in a group is the learned ability to overcome anxiety. In the world of music this type of anxiety is known as performance anxiety or more commonly stage fright. Piano or Guitar lessons provides this musical education to children that allows an emotional development to gain empathy towards other cultures.
Music is a universal concept found around the world. Every culture has its own forms and styles unique to it. A serious study in music includes exposure to music and instruments from many different cultures. This diverse exposure helps to create an understanding and compassion for other cultures. Music provides a bridge across cultural chasms that leads to respect of other races at an early age. A person who is able to look at the world beyond themselves and embrace it in all its diversity will achieve greater things in life. According to the evidence here, music study can be beneficial to this sort of development. As well as intellectual and emotional developmental gains from music education (e.g. learning to play piano or guitar), strong skills in social interactions and situations can also be developed.
Social skills would include the concepts of teamwork and commitment. Musical performance is often a team or group effort, whether it be participation in an orchestra or band. Each member has a unique and specific role within the group that they are responsible to perform. The member must be committed to his or her group. Music promotes the teamwork and cooperation. Music education helps to teach a person leadership skills that will benefit your children in all aspects of adult life, like in the workplace.
Students of music learn by focusing on “doing” rather than sitting back and observing, what creates “multi-dimensional workers” who possess “flexible and supple intellects”. Leadership is the ability of an individual to influence, motivate, and enable others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members. This is a definition that clearly defines what leadership in a musical group or workplace scenario entails. Twelve Benefits of Music Education
1. Early musical training helps develop brain areas involved in language and reasoning. It is thought that brain development continues for many years after birth. Recent studies have clearly indicated that musical training physically develops the part of the left side of the brain known to be involved with processing language, and can actually wire the brain's circuits in specific ways. Linking familiar songs to new information can also help imprint information on young minds. 2. There is also a causal link between music and spatial intelligence (the ability to perceive the world accurately and to form mental pictures of things). This kind of intelligence, by which one can visualize various elements that should go together, is critical to the sort of thinking necessary for everything from solving advanced mathematics problems to being able to pack a book-bag with everything that will be needed for the day. 3. Students of the arts learn to think creatively and to solve problems by imagining various solutions, rejecting outdated rules and assumptions. Questions about the arts do not have only one right answer. 4. Recent studies show that students who study the arts are more successful on standardized tests such as the SAT. They also achieve higher grades in high school. 5. A study of the arts provides children with an internal glimpse of other cultures and teaches them to be empathetic towards the people of these cultures. This development of compassion and empathy, as opposed to development of greed and a "me first" attitude, provides a bridge across cultural chasms that leads to respect of other races at an early age. 6. Students of music learn craftsmanship as they study how details are put together painstakingly and what constitutes good, as opposed to mediocre, work. These standards, when applied to a student's own work, demand a new level of excellence and require students to stretch their inner resources. 7. In music, a mistake is a mistake; the instrument is in tune or not, the notes are well played or not, the entrance is made or not. It is only by much hard work that a successful performance is possible. Through music study, students learn the value of sustained effort to achieve excellence and the concrete rewards of hard work. 8. Music study enhances teamwork skills and discipline. In order for an orchestra to sound good, all players must work together harmoniously towards a single goal, the performance, and must commit to learning music, attending rehearsals, and practicing. 9. Music provides children with a means of self-expression. Now that there is relative security in the basics of existence, the challenge is to make life meaningful and to reach for a higher stage of development. Everyone needs to be in touch at some time in his life with his core, with what he is and what he feels. Self-esteem is a by-product of this self-expression. 10. Music study develops skills that are necessary in the workplace. It focuses on "doing," as opposed to observing, and teaches students how to perform, literally, anywhere in the world. Employers are looking for multi-dimensional workers with the sort of flexible and supple intellects that music education helps to create as described above. In the music classroom, students can also learn to better communicate and cooperate with one another. 11. Music performance teaches young people to conquer fear and to take risks. A little anxiety is a good thing, and something that will occur often in life. Dealing with it early and often makes it less of a problem later. Risk-taking is essential if a child is to fully develop his or her potential. Music contributes to mental health and can help prevent risky behavior such as teenage drug abuse. 12. An arts education exposes children to the incomparable. If you would like to get more information regarding the benefits of music education or on how to start your child into music education, please contact us. Carolyn Phillips is the author of the Twelve Benefits of Music Education. She is the Former Executive Director of the Norwalk Youth Symphony, CT. With music music education (e.g. piano lessons, guitar lessons), children learn about craftsmanship, described as learning to put things together in a way that reflects good work, as opposed to “mediocre” work.
Students learn this idea by evaluating their own work and setting standards in excellence for themselves. This idea of craftsmanship can be very useful as a life skill and especially when applied later in life in the workplace or personal endeavors. Learning to set the standards of achievement high for oneself and then accomplishing those standards can be very beneficial. Through music education, students learn very useful and necessary skills and traits beneficial to the rest of their lives.
There is solid, concrete evidence that the study of music increases a students intelligence. It strengthens them emotionally and socially as well. Strong developments in these areas will inevitably have positive advancements on a students entire life. Some studies suggests that music lessons provide children with important developmental benefits beyond simply the knowledge or skill of playing a musical instrument.
Research suggests that musical lessons may enhance intelligence and academic achievement, build self-esteem and improve discipline. A recent Rockefeller Foundation Study found that music majors have the highest rate of admittance to medical schools, followed by biochemistry and the humanities. On SAT tests, the national average scores were 427 on the verbal and 476 on math. At the same time, music students averaged 465 on the verbal and 497 on the math - 38 and 21 points higher, respectively. |