Do you want to be like Taylor Swift, Ed sheeran, John Legend, and Elvis Presley? Do you think they are cool? Do you know why people think they are cooler than other singers? The answer is because not only do they sing well and they can play musical instrument. So even singers look cooler when playing musical instrument. Thus, If you want to be like them, learning musical instrument is a good step to start. You can learn every musical instrument that you want to play. Guitar, piano, violin are the example of musical instrument. Learning musical instrument not only makes you cool, but also has other benefits. Learning musical instruments can make your life better because it can make you smarter, build your confidence and you can earn money from it.
 Learning musical instrument can make you smarter. First, Learning musical instrument help us to understand things better. According to a new study from Boston Children's Hospital, they found a correlation between musical training and improved executive function in both children and adults. Executive functions (EF) are described as high-level cognitive processes that enable people to quickly process and retain information, make good choices, and solve problems. When we learning musical instrument, there must be a test to measure your ability.Â
The example is sight reading, Sight reading is reading and performing of a piece of song in a music notation that the performer has not seen or learned before. In this case, when you read the sheet you must understand what you are going to play in a short time. Then if you practice sight reading a lot, you understanding skills might be improved. Second, Learning musical instrument can improve your reading skills. According to the research from American Psychological Association that was led by Dr. Nina Krauss, her research had previously highlighted that learning music could improve the concentration, memory and focus of children in the classroom by improving their neural functions.
In this study, Dr Kraus found that giving children regular group music lessons for five or more hours a week prevented any decline in reading skills and it is possible to improve their reading skills. We always read musical sheet to play songs or maybe just search for an easy tutorial on Youtube and etc. This step actually is a training method for your brain to train your reading skills. Third, It will sharpen your memory. After reading, you try to remember the songs that you just learn and practice it every day. You can choose classical music, or maybe pop song that you like. And then try to play it on musical instrument and keep practicing the song that you just learnt. You have to focus to remember the song that you just learn. If you do this training method everyday, you will have better concentration power and it also can sharpen your memory.
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Learning musical instrument also can build your confidence. Usually if you learn musical instrument, you might want to play it in front of other people. No matter if you already good or not. You can show off your skill in front of your parents or maybe your friends. Sometimes, people that already good  in musical instrument can be your motivation to practice. Little by little, you can be good if you practice a lot.
If you are already good at it, you might perform on the stage to play musical instrument. Even if you are shy, performing in a stage it can help you to gain your confidence. If you do it frequently it can train you to beat your shyness and be confidence. If your performance good people may give you standing ovation or applause that can boost your confidence then, you will receive special attention from others. The more you perform, the more people around recognize you. You will receive special attention from surrounding if many people recognize you. You will have so many friends because they think it is cool to have a musician friend. It can change your daily life because you already have many friends. Having many friends also can boost up your confidence because sometimes, people got nervous if they are alone.
And the last, you can earn money from learning musical instrument. According to Jt. Ripton,"The average income earned by musicians is around $35,000 per year, and with more ways to monetize your art than ever, yours could far exceed this". There are some practical ways you can earn money from learning musical instrument. First, you can start by making a Youtube channel. YouTube has helped a musicians to launch their careers, including Justin Bieber, Shawn Mendes, James Bay and Charlie Puth. You can make a video by cover some songs. But you actually need to secure 1,000 subscriptions and 1,000 watch hours before you can monetize your videos. share your videos across social media and keep them longer than 10 minutes because these are shown to rank higher than shorter ones in the search that gives your videos an audience.
 If you are an amature, at least you can earn money from busking and use it as a training to become a good musicians and gain confidence. Second, you can be a music producer to earn money. It is hard for you to produce music or song if you can not play musical instruments. So musical instrument helps you to create a music or songs. Then, you can sell your music that you already made and you can have a copyright. A fee can be paid to a producer that own the song. And Producing for other artists is a great source of income. If your music good, there will be lot of artist that want to work with you.
Music always affects human life and life without music is like a garden without flower. Even if you not talented you can learn it from beginning. Learning musical instrument is a good choice to make a better life for us because music instrument can make your life better. It can make you smarter, build your confidence and you can earn money from it. So, why don't you just start to learn musical instrument? It doesn't matter how old you are. There is no age limitation in learning something.
