Piano lessons make kids smarter!

Studies show that music tuition can have dramatic effects on a child's development, not only in music but in all areas of brain function. Consider these recent studies:

Study 1. Research by Dr. Frances Rauscher of the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, and Dr. Gordon Shaw of the University of California at Irvine concentrated on the importance of music in the early developmental stages of childhood.      

They found the link between music education and intelligence to be far superior to other types of training. The researchers set out to find how music can enhance spatial-reasoning ability and compared the effects of musical and non-musical training on intellectual development. The results show that children who received piano or keyboard training performed 34% better than others. This is due to the development of the neural circuitry which governs spatial intelligence. The findings indicate that music uniquely enhances higher brain functions required in mathematics, chess, science and engineering.

As Joanna Schaffhausen put it, "Mozart was a child prodigy!”, so it is not impossible to turn your children into a “child prodigy” by using a new way, a new method of training and faster finger techniques through the special “Snowman’s Dream” program, you can make this a reality!

Study 2: A three-year study in Switzerland looked at 1,200 children, and found that they actually learn faster, when they have more music lessons. The children, aged between 7 and 15, were divided into 70 different classes. Each class was a 45 minutes period. Before the study, all 1,200 children had one or two music classes a week. During the study, half of the number of children had their music classes increased to 5 every week. To counterbalace the increased time in music, the children had fewer classes in maths and language.

The results, after 3 years, were astonishing. Those given extra music classes, performed better in languages, and equally well in maths in comparison to the other half. Although having fewer language and maths classes, the children in the extra music classes were better in retelling stories that had been read to them - whether reproduced in the written form, or drawn; additionally, their rate of learning to read were faster. Reference on these studies.

Read more:
How does one define  "Child Prodigy"?
What is “Snowman's dream”?
Ref: on Brain function from the RMIT: Comment on the link between music and brain function from an Australian Professor of Chemistry at the RMIT here
Ref: on Prof. Rauscher here