Singing to his guitar on the top of his lungs in the middle of the night, growing up, Shyamkrishna Shahi fell in love with music. Music has always been the spirit of the lives of people for ages. It doesn’t have an age factor and has this way of connectio

Music is an art that is not only important for growing kids, but anyone in general. It plays a significant part in being a positive and affirmative best friend to one’s life that encourages all kinds of growth, from emotional to intellectual. With that, it comes along with a series of benefits that Shahi discovered in his boon for music and his journey to where it can take him in every stage of his life.

1.      Music helps in brain development

Learning musical instruments requires training both sides of our brain. It trains us to focus on our right brain and left brain at the same time as we use both hands to play instruments. Having this ability directly contributes to a child’s analytical and observational skills and makes them more efficient and adaptive to learning new concepts at once. It helps them break down ideologies, scaffold the parts they build them up, and then helps them learn to understand that ideology to the technique that goes into it.

2.      Music increases memory power

All of us grow up listening to songs and rhymes that never cross out of our memories throughout our lifetime. There is something about tunes, beats, and rhythm that sticks with us and helps us memorize things for the long term. That is why a growing child is taught basic things in the form of songs. From setting to order, the habit of subconsciously remembering things the way our brain remembers songs, learning music from a young age develops a child’s memory ability and develops their brain to remember things more vividly

3.      Music develops the ability to multitask

There are a lot of skills that come with learning musical instruments, and one of them is multitasking, also known as creating a mind-division personality. It requires our brain and hands to focus on running two different things at once. From playing two different notes on a keyboard to playing two different beats on a hand drum using two hands simultaneously and finding a way to align those notes and beats together to form a tune. This transforms to be a discipline in a child to be able to focus on two different activities at once and still be able to understand and align the two concepts together.

4.      Music helps take control of feelings

Any form of art directly connects with understanding one’s feelings. Learning to express oneself and what one is feeling through music can help them take control of and analyze their emotional tendency accordingly. It is as though the rhythm flows through you and you have more time to think about your way of dealing with them, from aggression to compassion. A child who has learned to take control of their feelings turns out to be more understanding and empathetic to deal with more complicated situations in life.

5.      Music encourages the habit of time management

Learning music comes along with learning the bound of certain beats and metronomes. There is a specific pace and a key one is trained to follow. From a young age, this aspect can contribute to learning how certain tasks are to be done in a certain time and generates a practical understanding of how time management works at any stage of one’s life. Therefore, music.

6.      Music nourishes learning with all the senses

Music requires learning from all of our five senses. It requires you to see and observe the notation, hear the sound of the beat, tune, and rhythm, and feel what a song is trying to put out. And with that, like art, music has the power to make someone else feel something through it. It has a deeply engraved shared empathy that brings people and communities together by nourishing our human ability to feel and to make others feel.