Possible and Known Benefits of Playing Musical Instruments Or Singing that most people haven’t heard of

Posted by: clariniano on: August 30, 2011

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Health:

Playing piano, woodwinds, and to a lesser extent, string instruments can improve blood circulation.

Playing an instrument or singing has revealed that Alzhiemer’s Disease is rare among trained musicians.

Practicing music and taking music lessons is a good way to help deal with depression and anxiety by focussing the mind away from the illness.

Playing wind instruments is often recommended in the treatment of asthma.

Educational:

Music students seem to be stronger at spelling. (especially since several musical words have at least 10 letters–in fact, in a US Spelling Bee competition a few years ago, the winning word was a musical one.)

Music students who start about the same time as learning to read words, or before they read words, seem to often pick up reading of words pretty quickly.

Music students are introduced to the concept of fractions well before they are introduced in the formal mathematics curriculum.

Music students often develop organizational skills that sometimes transfer into other domains of learning.

Playing woodwinds, piano, or strings is an excellent way to develop fine motor coordination in children, especially those that are behind their peers in fine motor skills.

Music students develop listening skills, which are important in many aspects of life.

Music students are the most likely to be accepted as students for medical schools.

Emotional & Social:

Music study can often help people with learning and other disabilities find “the one thing they are good at.

In many ensembles, there are parts for players of a wide variety of playing levels, and larger ensembles, which typically require at least 30 members to have a solid ensemble (and many can handle 60-80 members or more, especially in a symphony orchestra), provide social and intellectual needs of many students, unlike sports, which requires much smaller numbers of participants, and often “average” players are left out because their skills are not good enough for the team.