Should we let our children learn musical instruments

The necessity to learn musical instruments

In fact, learning musical instruments is a comprehensive training and a good way of development of young children. In addition to cultivating music talent, it will also cultivate sentiment enhancing the ability to appreciate art. Pre-school age is the best time for learning music in a lifetime. The effect will be much better than later because in this period, children's fingers, joints are developing, so they have more flexible fingers and learn musical instruments easier. To develop your children all-around, some cheap education toys are also needed.

The age to learn musical instruments

Sooner the better? No.

Take the piano as an example. When children playing the piano, their hands and feet are used together, eyes to see, ears to listen and the brains to think, so the ability to coordinate will be improved greatly. The children of good coordinate ability can learn new knowledge and memorize knowledge better in the future significantly than other children. But I do not advocate children younger than 3 years old to learn piano too early as their hands are too small without enough strength, and they do not understand the music theory spoken by the teachers. The most suitable starting age should be 3-6 years old.

Orchestral instruments should generally begin after the age of ten. Vocal music should start the formal training be after the voice changing period (usually fifteen or sixteen years old), but the general singing can be learned from childhood.

Before starting, do some preparation

Except for communications with your children about their interest and willing, I think, the parents should also do some preparation mentally and financially as once your child has started to learn a musical instrument, it’s not recommended to give it up too easily. If you can afford to purchase a musical instrument for your child, you also need to concern about the classes fee which is also quite expensive.

For those children who want to learn guitar, I will recommend the guitar plectrum holder which is durable but affordable and I will also offer some cheap guitar kit for you to choose so that you don’t need to spend a lot.