Learning a musical instrument as an adult can seem like an expensive proposition. There's the cost of the instrument, books and hiring a music teacher – it can all add up quickly. However, there are ...

What do Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, and Sherlock Holmes all have in common? If you answered that they’re all famous thinkers, even geniuses, you would be right – but did you know that they all ...

Learning a musical instrument, particularly through improvisation, could boost cognitive skills such as learning and memory ...

Are you stressed? Worried? Burnt out? Then I have a simple suggestion: pick up an instrument. Why? Well, because I believe learning guitar is the best thing you can do to soothe your gnashing brain.

Some of us find it challenging to translate written musical notations into auditory signals and/or motor programming. Some cannot tell one tone apart from another. Some struggle with keeping up with ...

When your child comes home from school with that dreaded recorder or a band sign-up form — or even if they beg for drum lessons in hopes of becoming a rock star — what’s your first instinct? To run ...

Learning to play a musical instrument produces such profound changes in children's brains that kids actually can hear and process sounds they couldn't hear otherwise, according to researchers using ...

A study by the University of Sheffield and the University of Western Sydney has shown that improvising to music can help ...

Improvising music could help to improve older people's cognitive skills, such as learning and memory, according to research from the University of Sheffield and Western Sydney University.

Many parents want their children to learn to play a musical instrument — in theory. But the reality might have them questioning that desire. Living with a beginner and having to hear them practice the ...