The importance of learning to play piano is more than just reading the notes, and being able to write. It is to attain value and enrich your child’s mind. Music lessons are a wise investment for you are providing your child develop the skills and the fundamental basics to pick up any instrument and play for their own enjoyment.
Committing to something like piano lessons has several long term benefits for you are giving them the tools to attain their goals. Simply by investing in your child’s future, you are enriching their lives and providing them with many opportunities down the road. Learning about musical instruments, music theory and history will help them gain the ability to deepen their appreciation and understanding for music. Also helps their ear training, sight reading and attaining their future goals by teaching discipline and commitment.
Other long term benefits include; helping develop their manual dexterity, improving their problem solving skills, ability to reason, IQ scores, even the ability to get up and perform for people and their own enjoyment.
Why a piano?
Piano is one of the most coveted instruments, for it is one of the most enjoyable, versatile, easy to listen to and relatively easy to learn. Its all a matter of overcoming the first few weeks of lessons, being able overcome that barrier of maintaining the discipline and mindset that “practice makes perfect.” Eventually one can progress to accompanying other instruments, perform in recitals/festivals and in front of examiners, as well as pick up any other instruments, because you already have the fundamental basics covered.
Learning the proper techniques like proper fingering, and playing by ear is essential for advancing to different types of styles of music and instruments.