Can Music Lessons Help My Child Succeed?

For decades, parents have been encouraging their children to take up piano, guitar, or other musical instruments as a way to engage their minds and creativity. But an important question is: do the benefits stop at the keyboard? Study after study finds that engaging the musical side of the brain and training to become proficient in an instrument can create lasting beneficial effects well into adulthood.

“Recent research has indicated that having musical abilities was positively correlated with better reading abilities and phonemic awareness in children learning to read and write. What’s more, musical training has also been shown by researchers to have a positive impact on language development, performance on standardized tests (such as the SAT), and even ease the challenges faced by children with dyslexia and ADHD.”

-Psychology Today

In addition to the psychological benefits, the act of taking music lessons and putting the effort into trying something new and (often) difficult teaches grit. So often, as soon as a task gets difficult, our natural inclination is to give up and try something new. But when we are encouraged to see the work through and to give it our best effort, then seeing meaningful improvement over time reinforces that anything is possible with enough determination.

Finally, music education can help children enhance other forms of intelligence, such as emotional intelligence, spatial intelligence, and critical reasoning.

“Music education research shows 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.”

-Carolyn Phillips

It’s never too late to start the wonderful journey towards success. Schedule a lesson with us today! Use code “NEWSTART” for 75% off your first lesson!*

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