Info about Music lessons

There are different reasons to take music lessons :

• Difference between a musician’s brain and a non-musician’s

• More developed Motor Skills

• Better Self Control

• More Improved Geometric Abilities

• The Mozart Effect

Difference between a musician’s brain and a non-musician’s

In having music lessons, a child’s brain performs a lot of complex physical and mental operations which enable him to visually present the music symbols through finger coordination and recognition of sounds. Scientists believe that this could be the reason why the gray matter volume of a musician’s brain is greater than that of non-musician. They derived this conclusion from a study they conducted, where in they compared the brain configuration of professional musicians, amateur musicians and non-musicians.

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More developed Brain Connections Motor Skills

The results another experiment showed that the musically trained children who have music lessons showed better finger coordination and faster recognition abilities (the so-called near transfer abilities) than the non-musicians. He supported this finding using the brain scans of the musically trained children which clearly showed more defined brain connections than those who did not receive any music training in the duration of the study.

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Better Self Control

A research conducted by Michael Possner, a professor at the University of Oregon, showed the positive effects of music training on attention, self control and general intelligence. By using neuroimaging, he found that attention-controlled tasks contribute to the development of a child’s attention network, which leads to an increase of “fluid intelligence and IQ”. His research provides evidence that a child who is able to sustain attention and control for longer periods than other children of his age, has more developed language and reasoning abilities (so-called far transfer abilities). He considered music training as an activity that could have this effect on children. And so it is step to the future to put your child into music lessons.

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More Improved Geometric Abilities

Elisabeth Spelke, a professor at Harvard University showed in her research that children with music training have better map-reading and geometry abilities. In her study, she showed that infants as young as four months can associate lengths of sounds to the length of visual objects. In this research, she used tones of different lengths with corresponding cartoon worm sizes.Music lessons form the basis for the relationship between math and music lessons .

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The Mozart effect

Everyone has heard of the Mozart effect. However, none of the scientists was able to prove its long-term effects on children who are merely listening to Mozart’s compositions. However, if combined with regular music training, it has been said that Mozart’s music could have long term positive effects on the cognitive development of a child’s brain. For this reason, over the past years, more parents are introducing classical music to their children by teaching them how to play the harp or the piano at the music lessons.

We’ve heard it a lot of times – children’s brains are like sponges. They have the ability to learn a lot more than adults can. Why not start early and give your child a headstart in life? As a parent, we are being presented with a lot of ways to educate our children. There are a lot of theories that are subject of dispute among educators and scientists but there’s one thing everyone agrees on – music lessons can only be beneficial to your children. As of this date, there is no existing study that proves otherwise.

Music lessons connect young people with the sheer joy of music. Stimulating the mind and the imagination through sound, music is a language all its own. For young people, music lessons are the first and most important step to making that language their very own.

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