Why Piano?

Could piano lessons can make a child smarter? Does it help concentration or what is the importance of piano in a child's life? Just for fun, an introduction to music or more?

Piano lessons may help your child to develop skills: children who play an instrument score higher on both standard and spatial cognitive development tests alike. Learning to play piano is hard work and takes dedication. Playing the piano uses a variety of areas of the brain, areas such as spatial reasoning skills, emotion, creativity, and motor skills. Giving your child piano lessons helps to improve their cognitive skills in school.

 

The Piano also improves focus and concentration. Learning the piano takes concentration and focus, such as coordination between hand and eye, coordination between both hands, coordination of feet and hands, as well as reading the notes and the ability to understand the rhythm and tempo and translating it all. By developing the coordination of hand and eye, your child will improve their dexterity and motor skills.

 

 

One of the most important benefits of playing an instrument is obviously more confidence: your child will improve their self-esteem. Obviously learning to play the piano is hard work and a challange for the child: each new piece will have different technical difficulties and will require different skills and playing styles. So the more they improve their performance the more they will have confidence, which is very important in everyday life and for their development.

 

One of the most important benefits of piano education is that the piano helps preserve and improve the creativity of the child. The best analogy of how children learn about music is from Donal Kroodsma's book "The Singing Life of Birds". Every songbird can be identified by the unique song it sings, but a baby has to be taught by its parents to sing the family song. Baby birds, like humans, just " babble" at first. Mother birds sing the family song over and over to the baby birds as they try to repeat it back. At first, the baby birds are only able to sing back one or two notes, but they gradually learn to sing the whole song. And birds with two voice boxes even learn to sing their own harmony parts!! Once baby birds learn the family song, they can start developing their very own songs.

 

Likewise children who are engaged with piano are often composing their own music and developing their creativity. By taking piano lessons from little steps into the future, children become aware of their development and recognize the joy of hard work.

 

Let's quickly have a look at the piano itself. Which instrument family is the piano from? We can say that piano is both strings and percussion. The piano is in the percussion family because the sound is generated from a hammer hitting a wire. When you press a piano key, there is a little hammer hitting a wire inside. The action of the hammer puts the piano in the percussion family. So being both a percussive and stringed instrument gives the piano a completely different sound and style that makes it the 'mother' instrument. Almost all instruments can have a piano accompaniment. When we look at music literature we can easily see a large range of piano compositions by all composers. Even in composition education in schools, the first composition are asked to be written for piano. Regarding its richness and colour, the piano is a wonderful and attractive tool for all symphonies, concertos, chamber music and solos.