5 Benefits of Music Lessons
Between soccer games and dance class, your child’s schedule is packed with various activities. However, if you're hesitant about adding music classes to the mix, take note of 5 main benefits of encouraging your child to sign up for piano, guitar or voice lessons. We can’t promise they will be the next Mozart and maybe they don’t aspire to be, but they will have an easier time learning reading and math skills, practicing good manners and conquering their fears.
1) Music improves academic skills:
Believe it or not, Music and math are highly intertwined. By understanding beat, rhythm, and scales, children are learning how to divide, create fractions, and recognize patterns.
2) Music improves literacy skills:
Many of the skills involved in literacy can also be found in music, and music education helps students’ literacy development. Literacy is larger than just reading and writing. It includes listening, speaking, and social skills that are relevant to communication. Within the classroom environment, teachers seek to heighten students’ auditory and visual decoding processes. These literacy elements are also found in music and can be reinforced through music education.
3) Music provides children with a means of self-expression:
The Arts present the perfect medium for children to express themselves. It is a safe space where they can completely be themselves and don’t have to worry about the pressures of school for a little while.
4) Music develops skills that are necessary in the workplace:
It focuses on “doing,” as opposed to observing, and teaches students how to perform, literally, anywhere in the world. Employers are looking for multi-dimensional workers with the sort of flexible and supple intellects that music education helps to create. In the music classroom, students can also learn to better communicate and cooperate with one another.
5) Music performance teaches young people to conquer fear and take risks:
A little anxiety is a good thing, and something that will occur often in life. Dealing with it early makes it less of a problem later. Risk-taking is essential if a child is to fully develop his or her potential. For instance, many children are too shy to perform in front of others; however, with the opportunity to play a song or two in front of a crowd, your child will feel as though they can conquer the world.
For more information on registering or to talk to the Director, please call the studio:
(780) 488-6446