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How Playing an Instrument Benefits Your Brain

"Playing a musical instrument engages practically every area of the brain at once!   Artistic and aesthetic aspects of learning to play a musical instrument are different from any other activities studies, including other arts.  Playing music is the brain’s equivalent of a full body workout."

Ted Ed


Broader Minded Movement

"Music not only impacts academic achievement, it also shapes the way our students understand themselves and the world around them. Let's think beyond the bubbles and educate the whole student." 

Check out the amazing Broader Minded website!
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Why Music Education Actually Matters

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To earn the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology, you have got to have some great teachers along the way.  Co-recipient of the award, Thomas Südhof, named his most influential teacher:

“My bassoon teacher, Herbert Tauscher, who taught me that the only way to do something right is to practice and listen and practice and listen, hours, and hours, and hours.” 


Read more here.


Benefits of Music Education - An Overview of Current Neuroscience Research

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