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Benefits of Early Music

Music classes that includes listening, visual and motor activites can improve reading ability.
Early music classes helps develop brain areas involved in language and reasoning.
Musicians who began their training before the age of 7 were found to have brains that differed noticably in structure. The part that links the two halves of the brain was larger in musicians
Singing classes and group music play have been shown to boost the creative thinking and motor skills of 3 and 4 year olds.

Early experience with songs, sung by caregivers, helps build neural networks in the brain involved in social-emotional development.
Children as you as 3 years are good at detecting the emotional mood of a piece of music.
Music classes enhances teamwork skills.
Involvement in group music activities develops emphathy in children.
Sharing music classes can strengthen the bond between caregivers and their children. A strong bond to a nurturing adult can help a child withstand the ordinary stresses of daily life.
Children who engage in music classes learn to think creatively and develop self-expression.

Pre-school children who received training involving musical games and songs gained an IQ advantage of 10-20 points. Ten years later, they had higher reading and maths scores.
Music-making stimulates the development of neural pathways in the brain that are involved in reasoning, critical thinking, decison making and problem solving.
Music stimulates all the senses, training your childs brain to organise and conduct numerous activities all at the same time.
Musical activities that focus on rhythm skills, such as tapping out a beat while singing, can improve spelling ability later on.