Music and the Brain

I remember when I was younger my parents and other adults would also say that playing instruments makes you smarter in school and learning in general. I never really believed it even though I have played instruments my entire life. I never thought I was smarter or learning better, I just liked to play instruments and that was that.

I recently started playing guitar again after a year or two hiatus and while watching a Youtube video about how to play a certain song a Ted-Ed talk showed up in my suggestions...

Lo and behold it actually was true! All those things adults were saying when I was younger are actually real!

All fun and games aside, this post is supposed to be aimed at music education. I firmly believe that in this day and age all children should have access to some sort of music education class during their tenure at school. Now with research providing significant findings that playing a musical instrument uses all parts of your brain, it would only make sense to offer music education classes. Students that would participate in the classes would see an overall improvement in brain function as well as performing better in other non music classes.