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down with music guarantees to make you think twice before trying to learn how to play music.
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The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania School District analyzed its 1997 dropout rate in terms of students’ musical experience. Students with no ensemble performance experience had a dropout rate of 7.4 percent. Students with one to two years of ensemble experience had a dropout rate of 1 percent, and those with three or more years of performance experience had a dropout rate of 0.0 percent.-Two
Two research projects have found that music training - specifically piano instruction - can dramatically enhance a person’s spatial-temporal reasoning skills, the skills crucial for greater success in subjects like math and science..-Three
Students with band and orchestra experience attend college at a rate twice the national average.Not Convinced? Learn more about the enemy