Everyone wants their child to have the collaboration and social skills to build meaningful relationships. When your child attends a Yamaha Music School, you may notice a difference in the way they interact with others.

In our group lessons, your child gets the opportunity to play music in an ensemble. The children play their parts, learning how they intertwine, how to listen and wait for their turn to play, and how to engage in musical dialogue with the other members of the ensemble. Through this experience, they naturally learn how to express themselves in the context of their own parts and how to collaborate with others.

Playing music with friends is a form of teamwork, even in small ensembles. We hope you will give your child this wonderful opportunity to be a member of a team, listening to their friends play and doing their best to play their own part.

Everyone wants their child to get into the habit of setting goals and doing what it takes to achieve them. When your child attends a Yamaha Music School, you may notice that they have developed those planning skills somewhere along the way. In group lessons at Yamaha Music Schools, children play in class concerts and regularly share what they are learning in front of their friends.

This motivates them to:

- Practice at home so they are ready for the next class concert

- Play every day to have something worth sharing with others

Basically, they have a desire to achieve these goals, and it naturally drives them to make plans. When they succeed, they are motivated to tackle the next challenge. Before you know it, your child will be setting goals, creating plans, and making progress all on their own, and you’ll feel reassured that a bright future awaits them.

Did you know that the language processing parts of your brain are activated when you learn music? Like language, music has pitch and rhythm, but it also has elements that correspond to grammar. Like music, the language we use on a daily basis has accents, intonation, rhythm, and rules of composition.

Studies show that learning music is helpful for learning languages — not only one’s native language, but foreign languages, too! Interestingly enough, many musicians are multilingual. Research has also found that musicians’ brains are quite sensitive to human voices, which of course we use to convey meaning as well as emotion.

Thus, music education helps us develop the valuable skill of interpreting the subtleties of others’ emotions. One of the appeals of music education is that children develop a depth of sensitivity as they enjoy learning about music.