Merriam Music offers beginner and advanced level music lessons in Missisauga, Oakville and many other locations in the Toronto area. Visit us today at http://school.merriammusic.com/ to learn more.

1. Why Should I Take
Music Lessons?

2. Why You Should Take Music
Lessons
• Most people think that music education is just for
children and students. While they are beneficial
for young people, they can also benefit the lives
of adults of all ages.

3. Brain Development for Children
• Music education is particularly beneficial for young
children. Learning music early in life can help children
develop the parts of their brain responsible for language
and reasoning, as well as spatial intelligence, which
helps children perceive the world accurately – a skill that
many parents don’t think about when it comes to
education.

4. Brain Development for Children
• Children that take music early
on are also likely to be better
advanced math because of
pattern recognition skills that
are developed through music
education according to some
experts.

5. Music Education Teaches the
Benefits of Hard Work
• Many children find lessons to
be a chore like taking out the
trash or mowing the lawn when
they’re young. However, later
in life, many children will reap
the benefits of the hard work
they put in. Music lessons
require precision and reward
hard work with excellent
performance.

6. Music Education Teaches the
Benefits of Hard Work
• Even the most stubborn children often start to enjoy their
music lessons once they realize that the lessons have
made them good at something that others appreciate –
playing the piano, guitar or trumpet, for example. The
basic lesson that hard work is rewarded with a quality
performance isn’t lost on most children, and this will work
in their favor no matter what they choose to do later in
life.

7. Heightened Neural Response
• For adults, regular lessons
can also heighten neural
response. In fact, adults that
take music, even if they start
well into their adult life, can
further develop
communication skills through
heightened neural response.

8. Heightened Neural Response
• While the link between basic
music skills and heightened
neural response is still
unclear, many studies have
shown that there is a link.
Many adults that take music
lessons also find that it’s
easier to pay attention for
longer periods of time as
well.

9. Short-Term Memory and
Reasoning Skills
• Like heightened neural response, short-term memory
and reasoning skills can be improved through music
education. According to a 2012 study published in the
Journal of Neuroscience, children that take music
classes and continue them well into adulthood generally
have stronger short-term memory and reasoning skills
that are beneficial in their life, even in non-music related
activities.

10. Short-Term Memory and
Reasoning Skills
• While the study does suggest
that those who start early will
benefit the most, adults that start
later in life and continue their
study of music for a year or
more can also improve their
short-term memory function and
reasoning skills.

11. Music Education Can Reduce
Anxiety
• For many music students, both children and adults,
music classes or lessons that involve performance can
help to reduce feelings of anxiety. While initial
performances, even in front of your music teacher or
friends and family could be nerve wracking, students
quickly learn that performance isn’t as difficult as it
seemed and that they will make it through.

12. • This is an important skill that
can be applied to a variety of
situations outside of music,
and can be beneficial for
children and adults of all
ages.

13. Further Information…
• Merriam Music offers beginner and
advanced level music lessons in
Missisauga, Oakville and many other
locations in the Toronto area. Visit us
today at http://school.merriammusic.com/
to learn more.