By: Joxery Mezen Camacho
Reduces Stress
Music itself is known to be a great stress reliever! And according to San Antonio Music Schools, music helps reduce our blood pressure and our heart rate; it also releases happy hormones which helps us feel more relaxed.
Improves Memory
When you learn all the different aspects that come with your specific instrument, you’re giving your brain a workout which helps improve your ability to remember things.
Enhances Patience
Patience is a very important skill to have. It helps us stay relaxed and ultimately leads us to enjoy life a little more. While learning a new instrument, you must make use of that patience through continuous practice and pushing through despite making mistakes. When trying to play new pieces of music, you’ll be learning how to take things slow which you can then use in other areas of your life.
Improves the Immune Response
Making music strengthens the immune response, which allows us to fight diseases, as shown in a ‘Live Science/ article!
Boosts Confidence
Learning a new instrument shows you that you’re capable of learning new things. With practice, you’ll be able to see your improvement as a player which helps boost your confidence and that confidence boost can slip into other aspects of your life. You can also try to play in front of some friends/family or others in order to feel more confident speaking/performing in front of a group of people.
Improves Coordination
With any instrument you play, you will most likely use two or more parts of your body in order to be able to play it correctly. Your mind is also used as it tries to be aware of whether or not you’re playing the right notes. This all comes to play with coordination; practicing all the different movements with your instrument will improve your ability to coordinate.
Enhances Focus
In order to learn a new instrument, you must be able to focus. Concentrating on everything you need to work on and your practice sessions makes the brain work on its ability to concentrate which enhances your entire ability to focus.
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I like that you said that learning a new instrument can help boost confidence. I have been thinking about signing my daughter up for flute lessons. It would be nice for her to be more confident too, so I will have to try and do it soon.
Hi Joxery, This is a great synopsis of some of the key benefits of learning an instrument. i was looking for a cute infographic I could put in my studio but I think I’ll just use this list instead. Thanks for purrint it together!