Studying Music Makes you Smarter!

"Music study can help kids understand advanced math concepts. A grasp of proportional math and fractions is a prerequisite to math at higher levels, and children who do not master these areas cannot understand more advanced math critical to high-tech fields. Music involves ratios, fractions, proportions and thinking in space and time. Second-grade students were given four months of piano keyboard training, as well as time using newly designed math software. The group scored over 27 percent higher on proportional math and fractions tests than children who used only the math software." Source: Neurological Research March, 1999 as quoted by American Music Conference

"Playing an instrument can improve your child's grades & test scores. A ten-year study, tracking more than 25,000 students, shows that music-making improves test scores. Regardless of socioeconomic background, music-making students get higher marks in standardized tests than those who had no music involvement. The test scores studied were not only standardized tests, such as the SAT, but also in reading proficiency exams." Source: Dr. James Catterall, UCLA, 1997 as quoted by The Foundation for Musical Literacy

"Music can help students get into a better university. In 2001, SAT takers with coursework/experience in music performance scored 57 points higher on the verbal portion of the test and 41 points higher on the math portion than students with no coursework/experience in the arts. And, it appears that the longer you study music, the better you do in testing." Source: "College-Bound Seniors National Report: Profile of SAT Program Test Takers." Princeton, NJ: The College Entrance Examination Board, 2001, as quoted by Allegro Music

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music." ~Albert Einstein