Increasing numbers of studies indicate a close relationship between success in education and the investment in playing the piano, this is because learning to play the piano can improve the critical thought process. Children who play the piano stimulate areas of the brain related to learning. It as an excellent way not only to improve academic results, but also the memory, which can help to improve children’s performance.

2. FOSTERS SOCIAL CONNECTION

  When children learn to play the piano in a classroom, they are with other children, they may even work together in an orchestra. Even children who learn modern instruments such as electric guitar or drums will probably want to play in a group with friends. When this happens, children learn to operate together as a team, some of them even learning how to lead, and they also develop stronger social relationships.

3. ENHANCES SELF-CONFIDENCE

An important tool for life success is self confidence. If we do not believe that we have the capacity for success, then action will never be taken to achieve our goals. Learning to play the piano helps children to handle frustration in a way that is enjoyable. Once your child learns that he can improve his skills on a daily basis, he will realize that being frustrated is an important element of the process, and this helps him to keep up his level of confidence, even in stressful moments, as he strives to reach his goals.

4. TEACHES PATIENCE AND DISCIPLINE

It is well known that modern day children have less patience than they did in times gone by, and one factor driving this is today’s immediate accessibility of things. So the current generation are growing up with the notion that achievement often does not involve any degree of effort, and this can have a negative effect on their success later in life. This modern day disease has a remedy in the form of learning to play the piano. It helps children to develop their patience while striving to improve their skills. In addition, when participating in a group or orchestra, each child has to wait their turn to play, which helps to develop self discipline, as they learn to control the impulse to play at any given moment.

5. DECREASES STRESS

Children have times of stress and crisis in the same way that adults do, and just as music has the ability to impart calmness on us, so it can with children. Even so, the creation of music is even better than listening to music, because children are actively reducing their own stress. Many children who are learning to play soon realize that it is a great release from the discomforts they may be experiencing at the time. Playing the piano is way of “disconnecting” from life’s stresses. These advantages show that learning to play the piano is not simply a hobby for children, but a way to self-improve for a happy and healthy life. Any adult who learned to play the piano as a child will be able to testify to the positive outcomes of this pastime as they live through adulthood.