It’s commonly believed that piano music lessons should start when your child is entering elementary school – at around the age of 5 or 6. However, recent studies have shown that lessons should start much earlier than this – when you child turns 5- or 6-months-old. According to this research, your child will reap many …
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Every music loving parent will appreciate the findings of a new Canadian research study. It shows that after 9 months of weekly piano lessons children’s IQs rose by at least three points in comparison to their peers who weren’t taking lessons. This supports the idea that children are learning more than their scales – they’re …
Learning to play the piano doesn’t only take practice but it also requires the complex coordination of many different parts of your brain. These are the regions that are responsible for your coordination, hearing, sight, and movement. This ultimately influences your brain’s structure and function. What Research Demonstrates in This Regard Over the past two …
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Music has tremendous power in our lives and wellbeing. It is hard to quantify the role it can have in inspiring us, helping us through various emotional states, and the cultural and humanistic connections it allows us to have. Despite the difficulty in analyzing its effect, we all know it is there when we hear …