Music Education The Importance of Learning, Creating, and Appreciating Music in All Forms and Styles

Music Education: The Importance of Learning, Creating, and Appreciating Music in All Forms and Styles

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Not everyone is perfect at learning or performing music. There are several things that you need to take care of while performing music. You need to take care of tunes, scales, vocals, etc. It means that to perform music, you need to have a lot of knowledge. There are people who believe that giving music education does not help individuals in meeting their educational goals. But this is not true at all. In fact, music education is a very important factor in a student’s life.

However, if you are in a hurry, here is a quick takeaway for music education-

  • Most young children learn the topics through musical activities.
  • You will develop motor skills, hand-eye coordination, etc.
  • If you want to learn some easy musical instruments, you can always go for piano, drums, ukulele, etc.
  • If you want to learn some difficult musical instruments, you can always go for the violin, french horn, organ, etc. 

However, you must read till the end so that you do not miss any of the crucial information regarding musical education. 

How do children learn through music education?

Songs help the kids to remember their lessons easily. It is one of the fun ways of teaching their kids and making reading a fun game for them. If we talk about a toddler, you will see they react mostly to interesting sounds around them. Thus by using different sounds you can always teach them different topics. There are several benefits of music in education–

  • Music helps to improve listening and language skills. As there is a lot of grammatical knowledge it will help you to improve your language skills. 
  • Motor skills are very important in a student’s life. It takes a lot of time to develop motor skills in a proper manner, music is a perfect way of developing these motor skills.
  • It helps to develop spatial awareness. Spatial awareness is the ability to understand your surroundings and your position. 
  • When you are learning music, you may be facing a lot of problems with it. Thus it helps you to increase your problem-solving skills. 
  • It will also help to develop reading skills which are very important in one’s life. When the kids are learning music they need to learn to read music notes. There are generally three different ways of helping the kids to read music – Learning lines and spaces, Word rhythm association and Associate pitch with colours.
  • As you will have to use your hands for playing music and at the same time need to keep in contact with the crowd, music is the best way of improving hand-eye coordination.
  • You will also develop social skills while learning music. 
  • It is scientifically proven that music is connected to mathematics. Thus music helps to teach mathematics easily. It will help to increase focus and also help you in learning various concepts like waves, scale, etc. 

What are the different music theory activities for kids?

Following are the different music theory activities that you can give to kids-

  • If you are teaching your child to play an instrument, you can always use the technique of colour and games. You can mark different colours on the key which will become like a game for the kids.
  • Make them involved in online music learning. There are a lot of platforms which will help the kids to learn musical theory in an interesting manner.
  • Another fun activity that you can use for teaching the kids is the Cosmic whole note game. In this game, you will have to play a slow and repetitive pulse and your kid will have to recognize the space between the sounds of it.
  • Try to use their favourite sounds as words. This activity will help them to learn in a fun manner.
  • Encourage your children to compose natural sounds while performing different activities like brushing, having a bath, etc. 

When you are encouraging your kids to involve in music education, it becomes important to know which are the easy and hard instruments that they can learn. Thus further we have discussed some of the easiest as well as hardest instruments to learn.

What are the hardest instruments to learn?

Following are the instruments that are hard to learn–

1. French horn

It is very difficult to use this instrument, as you can easily forget which note to play. The weight and the size of this instrument are also big and thus it is quite difficult to handle this instrument. You can easily miss the note or hit the wrong part.

2. Violin

When compared to all the other string instruments, it is the toughest one. You will need to take care of the right pitch, note, and volume. To play this instrument you must keep in the right position. You will need both physical as well as mental strength to play the violin.

3. Basson

It is like a wooden tube which has 8 holes in it along with a tube to blow the air. It is very tough as you will have to take care of breathing along with proper hand coordination.

4. Organ

The organ is like a piano but a difficult version of it. In this, you can produce both soft and hard sounds. If you want to play a long sound you will have to hold the key till the time you want to get the tune. 

5. Oboe

Oboe has a tube-like structure just like Basson. It is double reed woodwind. There are various materials which are used to make Oboe like plastic, mood, resin, etc.

What are the easiest instruments to learn?

Following are the instruments that are easy to learn–

1. Ukulele

Ukulele is a tiny version of the guitar which has 4 strings in it. If you feel the guitar is tough you can always start with this instrument. This instrument is easy to carry and understand. Learning this instrument will help you to get eye and hand coordination.

2. Harmonica

Harmonica is a small size instrument which helps the person to learn the basic skills for getting into music. You will learn what are notes, scales, etc easily. To play this instrument you will need to focus on breathing. 

3. Piano

Another easy way of learning basic notes is by practising piano. In beginning, you will be playing the piano by looking at the notes. It helps to learn the piano more easily. You can learn to play piano in a very few days.

4. Flute

It is a very lightweight instrument that can be easily carried with you. Many people at first look believe that it is very tough to play. However this is not true, you can easily learn this instrument. Again like harmonic, all you need to control your breathing to play this instrument. 

5. Drums

Drums are very easy and interesting instruments to play. Though it will all depend upon the musical ability of the individuals. You will be hitting the drums while hearing the music. There is a membrane on the drums on which you will hit the sticks to produce the sound.

Conclusion

Music is an art that needs a lot of practice to become an expert in it. Getting a music education not only helps you to get an expert in it but will also help you in education. Learning music helps to develop motor skills and also helps to develop problem-solving skills. However, if you are interested in learning instruments, you can start with learning piano, drums, flute, etc as they are easy instruments to learn. However if you are looking for some hard instruments you can choose the violin, french horn, Bassoon, etc. 

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