BENEFITS OF STUDYING MUSIC
BENEFITS OF STUDYING MUSIC
No matter your age, studying music is available to everyone and its benefits too.
Music has many benefits for people, not only for children but also for adults.
Starting as a child favors psychological and psychomotor development, but the
truth is that there is no age to play music and to enjoy it.
Just by listening to our favorite song we release endorphins that relaxes us
and increases our esteem.
The Benefits of studying music:
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Playing and practicing an instrument requires and at the same time develops attitudes such as planning, attention and concentration. All these factors contribute to children having better academic results.
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Its group practice helps to improve our social relationship skills, encourages teamwork, commitment, empathy and tolerance.
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The instruments allow us to express ourselves without using words, helping us by improving our emotional sensitivity, the communicational capacity, our self-esteem and confidence.
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Studying music develops values such as self-improvement, perseverance, critical-constructive capacity, the responsibility to care for and to maintain an instrument.
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The logical-mathematical reasoning and the structure of mental maps are also developed when you study an instrument. For example, to understand the duration of each note in a music sheet (a corchea note lasts half of a black, which lasts half of a white), activates the same brain areas involved when solving operations with math fractions. Numerous studies have shown that children who play an instrument have better school performance.
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It is scientifically proven that having a music education develops the left part of our brain and increases both the gray matter and the mass of the corpus callosum of the brain, which unites the right hemisphere with the left hemisphere, allowing us to use emotional, auditory and visual stimuli. This happens when you read a music sheet, at the same time you play your instrument, you listen to yourself and to the rest of the musicians.
