Playing Piano with TWO HANDS

This is the time of year when our YELLOW-level students are learning to play songs like "How to Skip", with two hands coordinating on the keyboard. For some, it's a challenge that takes serious work and concentration.

The great news is that learning two-handed coordination before the age of 7 results in a brain-boost that you can't get later in life:


"Among the musicians who started training before the age of seven, the earlier their musical training began, the more white matter they had in their corpus callosum, suggesting that their early training boosted their brain development in that area.

Musicians who started training after the age of seven had the same amount of white matter in their corpus callosum as the non-musicians, suggesting that the changes to brain development can only happen at an early age."

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