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MUSIC HELPS!
Kids
Learn Better With a Song in Their Hearts
Do you recall the multiplication tables, grammatical terms, or historical
documents because of a song you learned as a kid? Educators recognize that
teaching with song makes learning not only more fun, but more effective and
long-lasting.
Strategies
That Work: Music
"I started writing [music] as a way of helping myself (and my colleagues)
survive the year with an intact sense of humor," educator and songsmith
Eric Baylin told Education World. But teachers aren't the only "savage
beasts" who are soothed and inspired by music. Discover how music is being
used in schools to enhance and support learning.
Music to Our
Ears
In the past, because written music requires basic music literacy, the songs that
children created on the spur of the moment were difficult to record, replicate,
or edit. Technology has solved that problem by providing a number of inexpensive
ways in which children can write and record their own music. Discover how fifth
graders at California's Village School composed original rondos and created
their own CD.
News
for Kids A boy in California was tired of his peers’ bad
language, so he decided to do something about it.
Friday
Fun Students discover common interests and unique abilities
* Exposing
babies and young children to music has a positive
impact on their learning
* Music Helps
According to a new study, children with music training had significantly
better verbal memory than those without such training, and the longer the
training, the better the verbal memory. The research, conducted at the Chinese
University of Hong Kong, was published in the most recent issue of the journal
Neuropsychology.
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Study:
Music Helps Kids' Verbal Memory
ABC News, July 29, 2003
For more articles like this
visit http://www.bridges4kids.org.
Remember those piano lessons you hated, or those dreaded hours
practicing the violin? It turns out they might have gotten you better
test scores.
According to a new study, children with music training had significantly
better verbal memory than those without such training, and the longer
the training, the better the verbal memory. The research, conducted at
the Chinese University of Hong Kong, was published in the most recent
issue of the journal Neuropsychology.
Researchers studied 90 boys between the ages of 6 and 15. Half had
musical training as members of their school's string orchestra program,
plus lessons in playing classical music on Western instruments like the
flute or violin for one to five years. The other 45 students had no
training.
Students with musical training recalled more words in a verbal memory
test than did untrained students, and after a 30-minute delay, students
with training also retained more words than the control group. No
differences were found for visual memory.
In a follow-up one year later, students who continued training and
beginners who had just started learning to play both showed improvement
in verbal learning and retention. But students who had stopped training
three months after the first study failed to show any improvement,
although they hadn't lost the verbal memory gains measured earlier.
"The present findings suggest that the experience of music training
might improve the memory functioning that corresponds to neuroanatomical
structures that might be modified by such training," said lead
researcher Agnes Chan.
Debate Rages Over Music and Memory
So should you start taking your kids to music lessons? Not so fast.
While the study adds to a large volume of research being done on music
and the brain, it has also caused an intense amount of debate.
The researchers believe when music stimulates a region of the brain
called the left temporal lobe, a beneficial side effect is better
performance at other functions, such as verbal memory. That might also
explain why no difference was seen for students' visual memory, since
that is mainly processed by the right temporal region.
Agreeing is Frances H.
Rauscher, associate professor of psychology at the University of
Wisconsin-Oshkosh. "The study complements the growing number of
reports showing differences between the brains of musicians and
non-musicians … It provides strong evidence not only for a link
between music and verbal memory, but also for the notion that specific
types of experience affect specific cognitive domains."
Added Robert Zatorre,
professor at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University:
"The conclusion the authors are jumping to that music causes
improved memory is something we have to be extremely careful
about."
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No
more boring music classes!
Get the type of instruction that will make you
want to go back to school!
Sai
Nanak School Music provides education for different age groups and levels.
Our
group education makes the lessons more fun, entertaining and highly interactive.
Did you know that?
√ When you play
an instrument you are exercising your memory skills, developing your hand-eye
coordination and improving your concentration
√ Playing a
musical instrument will improve your self confidence
√
Learning a music instrument will help you relax and contribute to managing your
daily stress
√
Learning to play a musical instrument can help you do better in school
√
Performing music, even at a beginner level, will give you a feeling of
accomplishment
√ Playing music, will give you a
way to express your emotions and expose your creative side
Music helps
develop and sharpen skills that are necessary to survive in today’s workplace
environment, from developing the right behavior for working in a team,
encouraging group and personal level communication, contributing to the growth
of self confidence and increasing the capabilities for dealing in difficult
times by trouble shooting and problem solving.
When you attend
classes to learn to play music, you should go to a school that teaches you the
music that you want to learn and not the music that the teacher wants you to
learn. Your teacher will design a music program tailored to your own wants.
It is very
important that you practice between classes. The more you exercise what you
learned during the music classes, the further you will get control of your
musical instrument (Guitar, Keyboard, Bass, Piano, Drums or any musical
instrument in any school that you take classes for)
The minimum recommended daily practice time should be at least 30 minutes, five
days per week for your musical instrument.
Just attending the class, in any school or any music class will not get you to
master your musical instrument. Your music class will give you the knowledge to
be capable of reading and writing music. American School Music will make you
proficient with music (tablature and all of the most common music symbols,
notes, music tempo, etc.)
The
biggest part of your success is up to you, the student, and how much time you
will dedicate to practicing what you learn during each music lesson.
If this is the first time that you take music lessons, your first month is very
important, because it can determine a lot about your future in music. As you
learn the first steps of reading music and being able to convey what you learned
into playing your instrument (guitar, piano, keyboard, bass guitar, drum and any
instrument), your experience can be sometimes overwhelming. You may be a little
confused on what to do and how to proceed, you may understand some things and
most likely not all, you may feel that you need to study and practice and may
even think that music is not for you, that is when the instructor makes sense. A
music instructor that can easily explain your lesson and help you overcome the
difficulties during the beginning phase can potentially increase your desire to
continue with your music lessons and help you get into the next stage of your
music learning and playing abilities.
As you go through your music lessons, your program will require that you master
the different levels of instruction in order to make the grade to get into the
next level of music training.
This will require accountability from you, the student, and being able to
demonstrate that you are accomplishing the instruction from the music classes
being delivered with each lesson.
Mastering
your instrument will only become easy if you practice to understand it, practice
it to get good, practice it to get better and practice it to master it.
Not everyone playing music or studying music wants to be an outstanding
musician, many music students take music lessons for their own enjoyment, or
because they want to have fun playing their favorite songs, some may want to be
part of a band and others study music to become outstanding professional
musicians. Whatever your choice, your instructor at American School Music, will
help you accomplish your goal.
Your
music instructor is very important and will guide you through your lessons step
by step. Some students want to study music and think that using a computer
training course in cd or dvd may be a great option, and although it may be for
some music students, most of us do need the extra motivation that a music school
and a music school instructor can provide. A music instructor will not only
guide the student through the lessons but also, it will correct mistakes,
positions, help with the reading of music and interpretation, he/she will also
encourage and provoke curiosity and promote improvement for the accomplishment
of the proper learning of the musical instrument.
Sai
Nanak Music Academy's convenient location makes the music classes easily
accessible for anyone as it is accessible bu bus, Auto, Auto sharing and walking
distance from Major Bus Depot.
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