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.

Music has been around for generations, and over time, people of various cultures and great musicians have changed the way it sounds. It continues to influence us in many aspects of our lives, for example; how we listen to it, how it influences our emotions, and the general purpose that it serves. Music is now more scientifically purposeful, useful, innovative and continues to develop many young minds.

In recent times, it has been proven that young children who grow up listening to music, and surround themselves in that type of musical environment have a more enjoyable, and fulfilled education that helps them prosper and develop and aids them to achieve success. This type of fulfillment has helped children and even adults to overcome many difficult circumstances and situations in life, by being more stable, well cultured, emotionally intelligent, which in turn helps improve social skills, and cognitive knowledge. Music definitely serves a purpose.

Studies have show that with the use of it, many children have succeeded and improved their math, science marks. These skills are essential in the work industry, and have improved many student's scores in university. Students who have had somewhat of an Arts education, especially in music, have earned the highest marks compared to others who have not, according to recent data.

With the studies of the Arts; music, dance, drama, art, photography - the student's achievements have gone above and beyond what has been expected and with the extensive study and continuous exposure of it, has brightened up the cultures, people and world that we live in today.