Music lesson
Many parents who send their children to music lesson don't realize the full benefits of the training process towards the development of the children. Even if the child does not end up as a musician, the impacts are extremely valuable for the rest of the lifetime.
Some benefits of learning a musical instrument:
- Ability to entertain
- Music is a great form of self entertainment for the players.
- Discipline
- practicing hours after hours, weeks after weeks, years after years requires great self discipline.
- Hand-eye coordination
- The hands move according to what the eyes read from the score.
- Dexerity
- This is obvious perhaps with the exception for bugle players.
- Timing and pacing
- following closely to the tempo, is an important training that becomes useful in project management and other work related situation.
- Fast reaction to recover from mistakes
- like a jazz musician recovering from a slip of the fingers. The skill is useful in facing the unexpected in life.
- Mathematics
- all the notes are in fraction. Though it may not help in calculs, the math skill is useful at least in arithmetics and build good foundation to learning math.
- Self confidence in front of an audience
- recital for all music students establishes one's self confidence in front of an audience. It is a great skill to have for politians and leader positions in management.
- Pursue perfection
- every music player aims for a smooth and flawless delivery of music. Such habbit and pursue can last a life time elsewhere.
- Team work
- playing in orchestra requires team work. Working with others in harmony is a skill essential to any workplace.
A child with long-term music lessons gains all of above skills without knowing it. All these skills can be intrumental to the child future careers include non-musical ones.