Is your child stuck for a hobby? If so, learning a musical instrument could very well prove to be the perfect pastime for him or her to take up. Not only will this give your little one something to do in the present day, but it could also be incredibly beneficial to them in the future. Whether playing becomes a passion of theirs and they enter the music industry or not, this is a skill that does tend to catch the eye of certain employers.
While your child should be the one to decide what instrument to play, learning to play one that falls into the wind family will stand to reap the following five rewards.
Strengthened breathing
Playing wind instruments might not improve your chid's cardiovascular system as much as a physical hobby would, but it will be sure to strengthen their breathing to some degree. When they spend hour after hour playing low brass and low reed instruments, especially, they will naturally learn to focus more on their breathing. More to the point, they'll learn how to perform a relaxed inhalation, and they'll also learn how to do a controlled exhalation.
Enhanced core muscles
Constantly inhaling and exhaling in this manner will not only give your child's lungs and diaphragm a workout. It will also force them to make use of their core muscles, and this will be sure to enhance them far more than, say, sitting in front of the TV would.
Improved hand-eye coordination
Move over catch and ball because wind instruments have just as many hand-eye coordination benefits!
Saxophones are an especially good instrument for your child to take up in this instance, simply because of how much finger dexterity, focus, and coordination is required to play them. Should your child learn to play something quite complex like Rimsky-Korsokov's Flight of the Bumblebee, in particular, he or she would be forced to focus on motions that they've probably never paid any attention to before.
Refined goal-setting abilities
Goal-setting is a vital skill that your child needs to pick up as early on in life as possible. Get them into playing a wind instrument, and this all-important ability will soon become second nature to them. Unlike other hobbies, there's never any time for stagnation when it comes to taking on this kind of challenge, as there's always something to be focused on and bettered. Whether it's something as simple as lip position or finger motion, or whether it's something bigger like actually holding the instrument in the correct way, as a wind instrument player, your child will always have something to work towards and improve.
Better poise
Better poise and calmness under pressure are always good skills to pick up during childhood, and being a wind instrument player will be sure to help your child hone them. These abilities will be cultivated when your child takes to the stage, especially when they're asked to perform a solo.
If your child takes up a wind instrument, he or she will be sure to cultivate skills that last a lifetime.
Nish
Voracious reader, vegetarian foodie, mostly armchair traveler, and frequent online shopper. I love to talk about all these passions (and other things happening in my life) in this blog.
