This is a section most teachers won’t have on their website. But I really wanted to share some (what I would consider) important reasons for learning guitar (or any instrument for that matter).
I’ll be brief and than give you the long explanation below that for a few larger points.
Here are a few simple reasons why you should learn guitar (or any instrument for that matter).
- Learning guitar is easier than learning almost any other instrument. How do I know this? Because (1) I learned piano when I was young so I know, (2) I teach piano now, (3) I teach guitar (my method) so I know, and (3) I was taught flute, trumpet, and other instruments… so I know. Trust me on this one. Other instruments are harder to learn AND I make guitar easier.
- Learning an instrument is great for young people (children) as it helps develop different parts of the brain and different parts of emotional and psychological parts of the human being … period.
- If you know how to play an instrument, you are more likely to be able to play that instrument and release stress and even become happier as a person.
- Learning an instrument is great for neuroplasticity (that’s a very long word for basically helping elderly people from getting dementia or Alzheimer’s. Neuroplasticity (using different neuro-pathways of the brain) is something everyone should be aware of and learning an instrument helps. Now I am NOT saying all someone has to do is learn guitar and they will never get dementia or need any other help (medial or psychological). I am just saying ti helps (see below for details).
- You can’t take a piano to the beach but you can take a guitar to the beach. You can take your guitar anywhere you go practically.
- Almost every home has a guitar and as such, you can impress people wherever you go.
- Speaking of; learning guitar is a boost to the ego but playing in front of others is so much more immensely ego boosting especially for young people who really need a self image boost.
- Anything can be played on guitar. If you like “Tiny Dancer” by Elton John (which is almost all piano) or Bach’s “Air on a G String,” why yes, it can be played on guitar. Once again, anything can be played on guitar. It’s easy.
- It’s cool. It looks cool. It sounds cool.
- Why learn guitar? Because it’s cooler than learning violin, easier than piano and you know you always wanted to learn anyway.
Read the following if you are hesitating on either taking lessons or getting them for your children.
Music improves your memory, behavior, and intelligence.
Learning a musical instrument at school improves children’s behavior, memory and intelligence, a government-commissioned study has found.
Professor Susan Hallam, of the Institute of Education, University of London, analyzed scores of researchers’ studies on the benefits of music to children.
She found researchers had discovered that learning to play an instrument enlarges the left side of the brain. This leads musically-trained pupils to remember almost a fifth more information.
Hallam’s research review was commissioned by the Department for Children, HYPERLINK “http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/schools”Schools and Families as part of a drive to persuade more children in England to play a musical instrument.
The National Report of SAT test takers study indicated students with music performance experience scored higher on the SAT: 57 points higher on verbal and 41 points higher on math.
An education in music also increases overall brain activity. Research done at the University of Wisconsin has indicated that students who took music lessons performed 34% higher on tests that measure spatial-temporal lobe activity, which is the part of the brain that is used when doing mathematics, science, and engineering.
Musical training might be good for the heart. They suggest that this could therefore be helpful in heart disease and stroke. Other research has shown that music can cut stress, improve athletic performance, improve movement in neurologically impaired patients.
Music training, with its pervasive effects on the nervous system’s ability to process sight and sound, may be more important for enhancing verbal communication skills than learning phonics.
I can go on and on but I think you get the point.
So all you need is a guitar and an 8 1/2 by 11 notebook (that people use to write for school, not a music book but just a plain notebook for writing words in). You can start taking lessons any time. Just contact me.