Music can be many things. An outlet to your stress, your favourite
hobby, a medium to communicate and an education that will help you throughout
your life. As an adult you know the purpose when you are learning, but why is
it important for kids? There are kids who are genuinely interested in music and
there are some who just follows the trend and pick up some instrument to learn.
Some do get attached to their instrument while some struggle to get a start.
However, whatever the purpose, as a child, learning an instrument can benefit
you for the rest of your life and is a great skill to have as you are growing
up. Here are some of the benefits that you will gain by learning music.
1. Brain Development/Stimulation
There are many studies telling us the
benefits a child can achieve by learning a musical instrument. Kids engaged
with music tend to improve in subjects that involve I.Q , reasoning and
comprehension skills. Any musical instrument requires exercise and dedication
towards your motor, auditory and visual aspects and as you improve your skill
in the instrument, the abilities of your senses also become sharper, hence
scientifically makes you smarter. The brain is a complicated neural network and
the best way to simplify the process to make your brain work faster and smarter
is to learn instruments. It gives your brain a full-workout and thus enabling
your neurons to fire faster. It develops our communication, reasoning and
understanding abilities which can be made use in any life situations that may
arise before you.
2. Increased Learning Ability
Another discovery made by scientist
suggest that learning musical instrument improves speech processing abilities
and your reading speed. As we discussed before, how music can stimulate your
brain to be smarter, faster and more active, it gives you the capability to
process words faster and deliver it with efficiency. Reading is an important
part of life that you need to solve mathematics to your daily routine tasks.
You understand the context of a problem better, comprehend the situation and effectively
put out comprehensive results. It may not be very obvious in your improvements
but research and past experience shows that children learning instruments show improvement
and better results in standard academic achievements.
3. Focus/Discipline
Learning music is different from all
the other subject that you learn in school. It is kind of a hobby when you
start out, and gradually start having fun with it as your skills improve.
However, the time and commitment that one has to put to improve progressively
and hone their skills is also different. Yes, one thing is common for every
subject, you have to practice numerous times to understand and get a
comfortable command over a certain context, but the consciousness that you have
to put and the feedback you get is very different and refreshing. When learning
instrument, you get immediate feedback and you yourself will identify if you
are doing something right or wrong. It requires you to be disciplined and
organised with your practice routines and with patience you will yield results
which gives you immense joy and pride. With time it teaches you how to direct
your focus to get the best results out of a session, and if you stick with it
long enough, it really explains why discipline and organised learning is the
best way to progress in any subject.
4. Confidence
Confidence is a key to be able to
fully showcase yourself. You are your best self when you are confident of what
you are doing. In music, as we discussed in the previous point (about how
getting results after your patience and belief in the disciplined learning can
really give you joy and pride) that will boost your confidence and instil self-belief
which, is crucial in your development as an individual. This doesn’t mean you
will brag about everything, it just means you are confident and really believe
in your skills and showcase what you have planned assuredly. Every child
deserves to be able to speak their view and for that one needs confidence, and
learning music kind of solves that.
In summation, learning music makes
you more social, smarter, reasonable and confident about everything that you
do. But in the end, do remember, even if music is providing so many benefits to
develop you as an individual, it should brighten up your day and you should
have fun because that is the beauty of music.
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