You might think that enrolling your child in piano lessons is merely a way to teach them a musical instrument, but there are thousands of ways that learning can benefit their lives! We could go on for ages but seeing as a Golden Tree Kids Center is a music school, we won’t bore you with too many details. Instead, we’ll explain a few brief and easy points why you should enroll your child in piano lessons in our Mississauga location.
1. Stress Relief
Scientific studies have proven that playing the piano, or any musical instrument, improves mental health! People who play the piano can improve your self esteem, make you feel better about yourself, boost positivity and lower stress and blood pressure. For children, playing the piano is a great way to boost confidence and reduce anxiety and the blues. As an aside, musical therapy is an excellent way to treat many common emotional and behavioural issues such as ADD.
2. Split Concentration
When you’re playing the piano, you’re learning to concentrate on many different parts of your body and mind. To play, one must use both hands, learn to read music, listen to the notes and tempo and use the piano pedals all at once. This is called split concentration, and it is an excellent way to help teach children how to concentrate and multitask in other areas of their life. For example, splitting concentration helps to teach school age kids to listen while writing, or to read with multiple subjects in mind.
3. It’s easy to play!
As opposed to other instruments, piano really is as simple as sitting down and pressing a key. There are no difficult techniques to learn, no callouses to be made on fingertips such as with guitar or complicated mouth positions to learn like with a brass or woodwind instrument. This ease can motivate your child to learn and keep learning until they master the instrument!
4. Neuroplasticity
So, this is a big word, but we’ll do our best to explain. Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to create and organize synaptic connections while learning or following an injury. Simply put, this is the brain’s ability to change when stimulated by a physical activity.
How does this apply to piano? Well, studies show that music can stimulate the brain in ways that many other things simply can’t! Playing a piece on the piano adds neural connections and primes your brain for other areas of improvement. While your child is learning “Jingle Bells” they’re also improving their memory and attention, speech, language and math skills and spatial ability. These changes to the brain stay with you for life!
In our ever more technologically advancing world, the younger generations have a harder and harder time unplugging from their cell phones and tablets. Grade school students who take piano lessons are known to develop much better cognitively than those who don’t. Studies have shown that middle and high school students who have taken or are taking piano score noticeably higher on standardized tests than those who do not, simply because of the past mentioned topics. Playing the piano aids your concentration and your ability to retain information, which is especially important now, in our developing world.
6. Physical Benefits
This one is a no-brainer. Regular piano playing helps to improve hand eye coordination and fine motor skills in young children. Piano lessons sharpen fine motor skills and have been known to reduce blood pressure, cardiac complications and increase immune response in the long run. For growing children, this can be as important as regular sports activity!
Now that you know what piano lessons can do for your child, don’t hesitate to get in touch with Golden Tree Kids Center. We are your top choice for piano lessons in Mississauga and Oakville, conveniently located near Dundas and Erin Mills. Our competent instructors can teach children from 3 and up. The earlier you start, the easier future piano learning will be. Join us today and start your child’s piano journey with Golden Tree Kids!
