Piano… “The KING of musical instruments,” “A marvel of human ingenuity with delicate soul”… brings sophistication and warmth to your home, a moment to your family life, and in the process, creates treasured, lifelong memories. But, the piano experience offers even more, as studies have proven that children can dramatically improve their reasoning abilities by taking piano lessons.
Research also shows that children who study piano demonstrate superior reading skills, enhanced math abilities, higher levels of creativity and, accordingly – better grades. The study of music – piano training in particular – produces significant non-musical benefits –
intellectual, academic, behavioural, social and – health benefits.
Ongoing, quality music instruction enhances intellectual development enriches the academic environment for students of all ages and builds skills for life. The skills gained through sequential music instruction, including discipline and the ability to analyze, solve problems, communicate, and work cooperatively, are vital for success in the 21st century workplace.
Playing the piano supports a child’s intellectual development, increasing their concentration levels. Children who play the piano learn more efficiently and exhibit better social competencies, integrating themselves more easily into social structures.
Adults who play the piano also improve their overall efficiency and concentration levels. They are also shown to react more appropriately and competently in stressful situations.
Piano playing helps older people improve their intellectual and mental fitness. These effects are based on scientific research and can be observed whenever you meet a piano player.
Numerous scientific studies have related the positive effects of piano playing as a fountain of youth.
Multiple life-and-work applicable and life-enhancing benefits of learning how to play – by Internationally renowned key-note speaker, businessman, composer and educator Randal Faber, PhD https://pianoadventures.com/blog/2024/06/05/trajectories-for-your-brain-positive-habits-of-mind/
“The human brain is wonderfully adaptive. This ability to change according to conditions and usage is termed plasticity. Contrary to the textbooks of past decades, we now know that the brain can change through the course of a lifetime.
That’s the bright side. Despite the optimism of plasticity, we are subject to “habits of mind.” During early stages of development, neural connections are made that become structural as they are repeated over time. Certain thought patterns, mindsets, and mental strategies become foundational neural networks as they are repeatedly practiced, over and over. Some of these “habits of mind” are positive; some are not. Accumulated experiences append to and reinforce these foundational networks. For better or for worse, the repetitions of life experience embed attitudes, mindsets, behaviors, and even personality.