Benefits Of Learning To Play A Musical Instrument
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Learning to play a musical instrument is a skill that benefits the musician physically, intellectually and socially throughout their lifetime.
Fine motor coordination – Have you ever noticed how clumsy a chimpanzee is? While immensely stronger than a human being, a chimpanezee is unable to perform delicate tasks. Somewhere along the line humans traded strength for dexterity and rose to the top of the food chain as tool makers.
Learning a musical instrument capitalizes on our natural abilities and hones our fine motor skills through repeated practice.
Group identity – Have you ever heard a grown up call themselves a “band nerd”? Be it a band nerd, or a groupie who is “with the band”, learning an instrument in a group setting as is done in most schools provides a format for social cohesion.
Even after leaving this setting, it is often the case that people who have learned an instrument will form long term relationships with others who have done the same.
Intelligence – Studies have shown that students who have learned to play a musical instrument are on the whole smarter than their peers. This may be due to many factors, but brain scans of students while playing their instruments show increased activity in large areas throughout the brain. As they say, use it or lose it.
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