Learning to Create Music Can Change a Child's Life Piano instruction at an early age increases brain function.
Music students score higher on SATs.
Piano lessons, particularly, improve the physical and emotional wellbeing of children who take them, recent studies show. Piano instruction, researchers say, appears to create changes in the brain that improve a child's ability to learn, comprehend and retain information . Moreover, these new data indicate that such instruction actually causes physical changes in brain circuitry that probably wouldn't develop without musical training. The study examined three groups of children. And that, they say, suggests that piano instruction will lead to a greater ability to learn standard, non-musical curricula as well.