The benefits of learning piano

No matter how old you are, learning a new skill can be an awful lot of fun, whatever it is. If you’re considering taking up piano lessons here at PLUK, you’ll be pleased to hear that as well as learning how to play the piano, you’ll really benefit yourself in all sorts of ways at the same time. Don’t believe us? Read on!

Better hand-eye coordination

Your hands have to move quite quickly when you’re playing the piano, so your hand-eye coordination will certainly improve over time, while your hand muscles will strengthen. You’ll soon impress yourself with how fast you can move your fingers from one end of the keyboard to the other.

Improved memory

It’s important to note that you’ll only get so far with your piano playing if you don’t begin playing from memory at some point after you start learning. Learning scales and pieces by heart will certainly help give your memory skills a serious boost in other areas as well.

More discipline

By the same token, you’ll also plateau quite quickly with piano playing if you don’t practice on a regular basis. And in order to do that, given how hectic life can be, you need to be quite disciplined and ensure that you make time to sit down at the keyboard and go over what we’ve covered in your lessons with us.

Stress reduction

This is an excellent side-effect of learning piano, wouldn’t you agree? Playing a musical instrument can be a very mindful activity and because you’re concentrating so hard on what you’re doing, everything you’re worried about at the moment fades into the background for a while… which can really help with any stress or anxiety you might be feeling.

Encourages creativity

Once you know your way around the piano a little, you can start to improvise, make up your own tunes and really enhance your creativity very quickly indeed. You may find it encourages you to be creative in other areas of your life as well.

Boosting intelligence

A study published this year found that early music training could actually improve language skills in young children, so you may want to see if your kids are interested in learning the piano if you want them to be bilingual when they’re older!

At PLUK, we offer piano lessons online and face-to-face in Bristol or Brighton and Hove. Get in touch with us to find out more.