Our one-on-one guitar/ ukulele lessons take students through popular and modern techniques to teaching tab, chords and harmony, songwriting and composition.  Beginners students should expect to learn first position chords, picking,  strumming, scales and arpeggios as well as popular music.

The Intellectual Benefits of Playing Guitar/ Ukulele

Taking guitar/ ukulele lessons can help your child succeed in many areas, especially mental success.  In addition to the music itself, there’s the personal enrichment that your child will develop and have for the rest of their lives.

Music and self esteem

Taking guitar classes requires discipline, and developing this skill will help children succeed at school.  Numerous studies have shown that taking music lessons, and more specifically, learning an instrument like guitar, has a strong link to success at school for kids. Learning about chords and scales will also help your child gain confidence and improve their self esteem, increase their ability to concentrate, and learn to develop a critical appreciation for the arts.

Music and self expression

If your child decides to take guitar/ ukulele lessons, they will develop their language skills, enrich their vocabulary with words like arpeggio, riff, and progression, increase their attention span and improve their sense of rhythm.

All these skills will also improve your child’s memory. They will learn to structure their thoughts, begin to associate joy with the effort they put in practicing the guitar, and naturally develop their memory.

Music and guitar will become the medium through which your child channels emotions (sadness, anger, joy, etc.), and thanks to this, they will be better able to master their emotions and express themselves to others.

Other benefits from taking guitar lessons with a teacher include the fact that music and guitar will improve their hearing and develop their memory for sounds and rhythms. They will refine their hearing to differentiate between a A chord and a G chord, and will know what C major or the E string should sound like.

The cognitive skills of the child will also be reinforced – the left side of the brain, the side that is linked to verbal memory, is more developed in musicians and children who play an instrument.

Guitar is also a great opportunity for your child to develop their creativity and free their imagination to express themselves in different ways. Once they graduate to jamming and writing their own music, their full artistic sensibilities will be unleashed.

Personal Benefits of Guitar/ Ukulele Classes

Learning music and guitar will help develop the personality of your child.  They will learn to find a balance between their intellect (necessary to learn an instrument like the guitar and deploy perseverance and patience), and their emotions (sensitivity, feelings).

Defeat stage fright by playing guitar / ukulele

If your child is taking guitar classes, they will eventually play not only for their teacher, but also for people they don’t know and other students and their parents.

This situation will shape them in a good way – your child will have to master their emotions to perform and deal with nerves, stage fright, and their shyness and fear of strangers.

Strengthen their self confidence on the guitar / ukulele

This will increase their self confidence and they will be more comfortable communicating and expressing themselves.

Passing on knowledge

Whatever their level, once your child has mastered the basics of music theory and playing the guitar, they will be able to tutor others, and pass on their passion for playing to others.

They will also be able to play in a band, play on a stage by themselves, jam with their friends, and write their own music – the possibilities are endless once they’ve gotten to the next level and begun perfecting their guitar playing.

The more their passion for guitar is encouraged during lessons, the more your child will gain artistic as well as technical expertise. They’ll need both of these skills in order to pass on everything they’ve learned about guitar once they’re older.

The Emotional Benefits of Playing Guitar / Ukulele

Children can often have trouble expressing what they feel.  Communication isn’t always easy when your child closes up or shuts themselves up in their bedroom.  Music and guitar can help provide an emotional outlet for your child, and gives them a way to say what they’re feeling inside.

By playing any style of music – blues, rock, hard rock, funk, classical – your child will also be able to explore that facet of their personality.

The Physical Benefits of Playing Guitar / Ukulele for Children

It may not seem immediately obvious, but playing guitar is somewhat of a sport on its own, and requires children to learn more about their body in order to develop more control.

By becoming more conscious of how their bodies work, regulating and work on their breathing, and developing better posture, your child will also gain muscle, especially in their hands, arms and shoulders.

Flexibility and strength

You need to have both flexibility and strength to play the metal or nylon guitar strings properly and make the sounds you want.  Your child’s guitar teacher will make sure that they hold themselves correctly and place their hands and arms properly to play without causing any aches.

Health benefits

Learning guitar / ukulele and taking lessons will also benefit your child’s health, especially by helping them learn how to manage their stress and anxiety.  Your child’s body will release ‘happy’ hormones (serotonin and dopamine) when they’re in their own world and they can express themselves freely.

The Cultural Benefits of Learning Guitar / Ukulele

By taking regular guitar lessons, your child will learn about music, as well as be exposed to culture and the arts more generally.  Their teacher will introduce them to the world of music, and expose them to new styles like rock, pop, funk, country, and reggae.

Playing guitar / ukulele helps introduce children to different cultures and the world.

Under the guidance of their teacher, your child will discover new cultures and music styles, learn about music history, and gain an appreciation for different styles and trends throughout the ages.

In conclusion, taking guitar lessons will give your child a new set of tools which will help them, not just in the music world, but also throughout their life at school and as an adult.

Guitar lessons help teach patience, discipline, and self reflection, and will help your child become a well adjusted adult.

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