Once a child reaches middle school, the school will often offer orchestra or band as an elective class. While it does cost money to rent the instrument, the benefits of learning to play far outweigh the expense. If your child has decided that he wants to enroll in band or orchestra, the next step is picking the instrument. What are your options when it comes to paying for the instrument? If your child isn’t particularly driven or musically inclined, why would you want to encourage him to play an instrument? These questions and many others will be answered in the 18 blog articles below.
Picking an Instrument
The best way to pick an instrument is to try them all out. If your child is small for his age, it probably wouldn’t be a good idea for him to take up playing the tuba or bass. These six blog posts will give you some advice on how to pick the right instrument with your child.
- Guide to Picking the Right Instrument for Your Child to Play This article brings up several points for you and your child to consider when choosing an instrument.
- How to Pick the Right Music Instrument for Your Child This article suggests picking the instrument that you would most enjoy hearing all the time.
- Help Your Child Pick the Right Musical Instrument A thoughtful post that looks at this decision from the child’s point of view.
- School Band 101: How to Pick the Right Musical Instrument for Your Child to Play You will find a detailed explanation of the kind of testing that the band director may give your child to help determine what his aptitude for an instrument is.
- Choosing Your Child’s First Instrument This article focuses on younger children finding their way in music and instruments.
- How to Select Musical Instruments for Children A comprehensive blog entry that will give you a lot to think about.
Affording the Instrument
You may be wondering how in the world you are going to afford an instrument. Well, in the beginning you won’t have to buy an instrument. You could start with a keyboard if your child would like to learn to play the piano. If your child wants to learn to play the violin, then you might consider renting an instrument because the size of the instrument changes as the child grows. Take a look at these six blog entries and learn some of the options for affording an instrument.
- How to Afford a Musical Instrument for Your Child Various options are given for affording an instrument; while these exact options may not apply to your child, you can find out if you have similar options available to you.
- The Key to Buying Instruments Options like choosing a smaller instrument because it’s less expensive as well as speaking to your school about scholarship programs are covered in this article.
- How to Find Affordable Music Lessons Many different options are described in this post.
- Can’t Afford a Stradivarius? Rent Your Violin Here An explanation of how rental shops start and how you can rent an instrument instead of trying to buy the top of the line.
- Learning Piano? How to Choose an Instrument to Buy or Rent for You or for Your Child A suggestion is made to bring a piano technician with you when buying a used piano.
- Where to Find an Inexpensive Instrument Many options such as using a loaner from the school or finding a used instrument from a garage sale are suggested.
Benefits of Learning an Instrument
Why should your child play an instrument? By playing an instrument a child can learn to multi-task and to be more responsible. As your child becomes better at playing his instrument he will become more confident in other aspects of his life too. Playing an instrument as a hobby can be an excellent stress reducing activity that could stay with him his entire life. To learn more about the benefits of playing an instrument look at these six blog posts.
- 5 Benefits of Learning to Play Musical Instruments Your child can improve his memory and boost his brain power by learning to play.
- The Benefits of Playing an Instrument Improved time management skills are learned by playing and practicing an instrument.
- The Benefits of Learning Music Raise your child’s self-esteem and improve his character by learning music.
- 18 Benefits of Playing a Musical Instrument Enhance your child’s coordination skills by learning to play an instrument.
- Benefits of Children Learning to Play a Musical Instrument Learn discipline by playing a musical instrument.
- Benefits of Learning to Play an Instrument Experience an increased IQ by learning to play an instrument.
