I wanted to dedicate this blog post to explaining the  benefits that private music lessons can give your child.  Many parents are frightened by the cost of lessons as well as the cost of buying/renting and maintaining an instrument.  There are also those who don't believe their child will have a chance of becoming a professional musician, so therefore believe they are wasting their time and money by bringing them for music lessons.  Even if your child doesn't pursue a music career there are lifelong benefits to learning music.