Choosing the right instrument for beginners is important. It’s crucial to provide a suitable instrument for beginners to help them enjoy playing music and hone their potentials.
While music education is valuable regardless of the instrument your child plays, there is one instrument that tops the list when it comes to education, direct and indirect benefits, and versitility: that is the piano.
Learning Benefits
The piano is traditionally considered the best instrument to start on, due to its visual nature. There are a lot of musical concepts that will be easily understood looking at a piano, but are extremely difficult to understand on any other instrument. Ideas like pitch fluctuations, staff reading, half steps, whole steps, octaves, scales, sharps, flats (and more) are much easily understood on the piano.
Cost Benefits
The piano is one of the most versatile instruments that children will love to play. While a traditional, acqoustic piano is ideal, students can also learn on a well-designed keyboard when first starting out. This makes your “start up” costs lower, giving you time to try out learning your instrument before purchasing something more expensive.
Availability Benefits
Since piano lessons are popular, it’s easier to find piano teachers and piano studios in your area.
Versitility Benefits
While learning the piano, students can explore endless musical styles. The piano is usable to play almost any musical style, unlike other instruments. So while your child is learning the piano, he or she can explore styles until they find their niche.
Improves Future Learning
Since the piano provides the best way to learn basic musical concepts, the student can then take what they have learned and easily apply it towards learning another instrument, like guitar lessons or voice lessons. This strong musical background will help the student pick up any other instrument much quicker than they would otherwise.
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