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Why music lessons are important for your child.

5/21/2011

80 Comments

 
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. 
Learning to read music is much like learning to read a new language.  Most musical terms they learn will probably be in Italian, thus they will literally begin to read a new language.  The child will also develop the ability to distinguish between different pitches and rhythms on sight.   Learning how to read rhythms also requires basic math skills that the child will have to recall instantly.  The pitches will help train your child's hearing and make music listening as an adult more enjoyable for them.  

Learning music will also help expand your child's attention span.  They will have to learn to focus for longer and longer periods of time, which may be extremely difficult for some children at first, but having a teacher to work with them one on one will eventually help them succeed.  This will crossover to their studies at school and they will have an easier time focusing in class.

Many parents are afraid if they give their child an instrument, they will break it.  Though accidents do sometimes happen, most children will learn the responsibility of caring for an instrument.  They will have to learn to clean/oil the instrument and to be careful and not drop the instrument so it won't get damaged.

The child will grow up with a lifetime appreciation for music.  They will be more likely to attend concerts, enjoy playing as a hobby alone and with friends, and have a basic knowledge of music they can share as adults. 
80 Comments
Sarah Gittlein
10/2/2011 09:29:10 am

I Love this blog. I am currently in High school, and funding for our music department was threatend.Our music calss wrote perssuasive essays on the topic, and now we have the most succeesful band in Alaska. I agree 150% that music is important to students.

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Montessori schools link
5/17/2012 04:56:27 pm

Great information regarding the music education. That is necessary for the children to increase their talent. This might be helpful for the students. I am very much pleased with the contents you have mentioned. I wanted to thank you for this great article. I enjoyed every single part of it and I will be waiting for the new updates.

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Dena Merkovsky link
10/20/2011 01:06:29 am

Hello Sarah, Congratulations on your success and thank you for sharing this with us. We have seen beginning students transform to confident success, not only in their music studies, but with their other academic challenges. Be so proud of the achievement and the power that training and discipline in this art brings to your life experience. You proved that your words have the power to change lives. We applaud your effort.

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9/10/2012 05:07:16 pm

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E. Schaffer
10/22/2012 09:34:23 am

Well, I must agree with this 110%... I found this site via a school project and I think that music is a crazy important to children's development and education. It's insane how much learning to play an instrument or putting your voice out there can change a child's life. I volunteer at a music program that teaches music to children in underprivalged areas near me. This children are kept away from bad influential things that might meet them after school, and instead are bettering themselves by learning a string instrument. Not only this, but this program is teaching them respect, manners, and helps them make friends. It's called El Sistema and it started in Venezuela in the 80s... there are now programs like that all over the world. As far as breakign the instrument, no problem. These kids go through the program for two months with a cardboard instrument that they decorate and care for. If the instructors think they can't handle a real instrument, they just make them hang onto the cardboard one a little longer. It is NO cost to the children or parents in the program. It's fantastic.
Btw, fancy meeting you here cousin Sarah, your school band rocks.
Elise

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