The ancient Aboriginal Australian musical instrument, the didgeridoo/yidaki, saved me and gave me consequential lifelong missions. It came to me at a critical time in my 20s when I was without direction, working in a series of meaningless, poorly paying hourly wage, dead-end jobs. Before the didgeridoo arrived, my 20s were a deeply depressing period. Luckily, I was awake enough to accept the didgeridoo’s invitation to a new, healthy way of life and a lifelong allegiance. I owe a lot to the hollowed-out tree branch from the indigenous people of Northern Australia.
As if you needed more reasons to learn an instrument, this article will explore some of science’s discoveries on the subject of the benefits of music lessons. This topic is also significant as more and more arts programs are cut in schools around the United States due to economic restrictions. The benefits of music education underscore the importance of keeping these programs in school curricula.
Music lessons benefit kids greatly - be it in terms of academics, social development, fostering a good work ethic, or just for the fun of it. There’s no reason to eschew music lessons as you age - they also benefit adults, but if you’re a parent, the question isn’t whether your kids will benefit from music lessons, it’s when should my child start music lessons?
Great music teachers resound in our thoughts for the rest of our lives, whether through their guidance in how to problem-solve issues, their inspiring characters, or in the direct skills that they impart in us – good posture or how to look cool holding a bass guitar, how to tune or how to use a capo, how to play Humoresque by Dvorak or Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin, as the case may be. Choosing the right one for you or your child is very important.
Though the geographic range of teachers found on LessonFace in our first month can be called global without exaggeration, there's undoubtedly an East Coast of the US concentration. So placement on this map is mostly quite approximate, with some teachers based in NYC appearing to be in Greenland.
We'd love to get more teachers all around the world (and also more on the East Coast) - and students all around the world as well!
