Archive for January 21st, 2010

Playing Music: Can It Make You Smarter?

0 Comments Published by David Motto January 21st, 2010 in Motivation

Here’s some good motivation for practicing a musical instrument every day:  Playing music may actually make you smarter!  Research done by neuroscientist Gottfried Schlaug at Harvard has come up with some fascinating results about how the brains of musicians are different than the brains of non-musicians.  Apparently, playing a musical instrument rewires the brain to give musicians advantages that will [...]

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
--Johann Sebastian Bach