Did you know that playing the violin helps you burn about 170 calories per hour? That’s equivalent to about 45 minutes of jogging, if you run 3.5 miles per hour.
Did you know that there is a causal link that’s been drawn between music and spatial intelligence? Music can help children develop a strong ability to perceive the world accurately and to form mental pictures of things.
Did you ever wish you had been more serious when you took music lessons as a child? Seniors can derive great enjoyment from drumming or other music lessons because they now have the motivation, time, and patience for both lessons and practice.
One essential aspect of learning guitar is to develop a good ear for music. In fact, a well-trained ear will be invaluable when you are trying to play out a melody or recognize chords and melodies and then replicate them.
Be sure to make your child’s practice area relaxing. Is the room well ventilated? Is there proper lighting? Making sure that the practice area is free from distractions and comfortable will help them concentrate better.
Music lessons actually develop the left side of the brain, which also is responsible for processing language, according to the Children’s Music Workshop. That’s one of the reasons students with a musical background score better on tests that involve language skills.
The smallest replica guitar in the world had six strings that were only 0.05 mm thick which is equivalent to 100 atoms laid end to end! The strings do vibrate, but at frequencies 1,000 times higher than the human ear can pick up.
“I’ve played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I’m mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute … just not well,” says actress Kat Dennings, star of TV’s “Two Broke Girls.”
In 1890 musicians began working with drums struck by foot pedals. This allowed the drummer to play a drum with his foot while standing, keeping his hands free to play other instruments within his reach.
The violin was created in the 1500s as an alternative to the lyre, one that was lightweight but comparable in musical capability. In fact, when Italian Andrea Amati made his first, it turned out to be such a hit that he opened up his own Cremonese School of Violin Making.
