{"id":49,"date":"2013-02-15T23:57:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T23:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steinwaypianogalleries.com\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2013-02-16T00:43:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T00:43:37","slug":"6-reasons-why-your-child-should-learn-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinwaypianogalleries.com\/blog\/6-reasons-why-your-child-should-learn-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Reasons Why Your Child Should Learn Piano"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are many highly defensible arguments for encouraging children to learn to play piano. Not the least of which is that over the past several years a great deal of research has produced an ever expanding amount of evidence showing that music can have a distinctly measurable and undeniably positive impact on the brain and its processes.<\/p>\n

Robert DeFazio writes in the Feb\/March edition of Amercian Music Teacher, \u201c\u2026 the value proposition of music is not merely that a student will learn to play scales; it goes far beyond that. With musical training, a student could also read better, develop a facility with language that enables him to express himself more accurately and capably, and acquire a foreign language more rapidly and effectively.\u201d Many other studies conclude that early piano training also has a direct effect on the development of the brain\u2019s neural circuitry, actually improving intellectual development and helping to create and maintain certain \u201cconnections\u201d in children\u2019s brains that might not otherwise ever form.<\/p>\n

Well\u2026 All this \u201cBrain Stuff\u201d is very well and good, but what does it actually mean out in the real world? A very interesting article by Liz Ryan, CEO & Founder of Human Workplace, an online community and consulting firm focused on reinventing work and career education for humans, reveals some incredible advantages not commonly associated with piano training.<\/p>\n

Ms. Ryan challenges the concept that a college degree in \u201ccomputer science or accounting\u201d prepares a child for the real world. In a February 4 blog posted to DenverPost.com she writes\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s what prepares a kid for real life: growing muscles. Musicians grow those muscles from an early age, because every kid in class can get an A in Algebra, but not every kid can be first chair in the concert band. There is competition in music (as in life). It goes with the territory.<\/p>\n

Here are other things that go with the musical territory:<\/p>\n