Major Benefits of Playing any Musical Instrument (I play Saxophone) 1. Increases the capacity of your memory. Research has shown that both listening to music and playing a musical instrument stimulate your brain and can increase your memory.
"New research suggests that regularly playing an instrument changes the shape and power of the brain and may be used in therapy to improve cognitive skills." There is continually more evidence that musicians have organizationally and functionally different brains compared to non-musicians, especially in the areas of the brain used in processing and playing music. If you learn how to play an instrument, the parts of your brain that control motor skills (example -using your hands, running, swimming, balancing, etc.), hearing, storing audio information, and memory actually grow and become more active. Other results…
