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How Playing an Instrument Benefits Your Brain!
Making Music is a Brain Workout!
TED-Ed has a great video on how playing an instrument benefits your brain by Anita Collins:
When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What’s going on? Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians’ brains when they play, and examines some of the long-term positive effects of this mental workout.
Wondering how you can get your kids to practice their musical instruments? Check out this post, 12 Musicians Share Strategies on How to Get Kids to Practice Their Musical Instruments.
