The Importance of Music

Whether you’re an aspiring triple threat, to someone who sings in the shower, you are improving your health. Music benefits so much more than people could even put their minds to!

Music is:

• Physical:
  Whilst not being as physical as most activities, can be described and thought of as sport. The way many learn to sing and keep timings and rhythms, builds coordination in the human body. A healthy body is also developed through the strategic  breaths that is taught and constructed when playing an instrument that requires air such as trumpets, clarinets, flutes and saxophones.
   
• Emotional:
  Music is an art form. Through songs and melody's we can express our feelings and inner thoughts as well as telling a story and powerful  through our musical notes and lyrics.
   
• Academic:
  Music has been found to train brains into a higher order thinking. Tests taken on California, America show that that second graders that receive music lessons scored 27% higher on their marks in proportional maths and fractions tests then children who don't receive any music lessons. Research also has proven that musical training permanently triggers a young mind for enhanced performance.
   
• Life:
  Music is a pure gift that each child will receive. Some will have talents in singing, others in musical instruments and then again, there will be some in dancing to music- feeling the music and rhythms.
   

Music, for some is therapy- for most, it is an expression of their feelings at the time. Whether they can dance to the beat, sing in tune or they remember all the lyrics- music becomes a gateway for many to have fun and it is an outlet for all to groove and shout out those choruses. 

Music is a global language! Many are lucky enough to learn and pursue careers in the domain of music and others are fortunate enough to listen to the marvellous developments of the music industry!

May we all grow to appreciate the importance of music. It is important for our own selves in physical, emotional, academic and life aspects. It is also a global phenomenon which has lasted through centuries! Enjoy music, contribute to music and embrace music in all styles! 

Written by Jess Parcell.