motivation

I have spent all of my entire life encouraging people to take up learning an instrument. When I was an elementary teacher, I also had several piano students that I taught in my garage after school. I told parents that learning to play an instrument also helps with memory, cognition, motor skill, and attention span.

When my own children got to junior high and high school, they played in the band. I found high school students in band stayed busy and out of trouble.  They understood teamwork, they…