Learn piano the easy way – and boost your health at the same time!
Learning to play piano later in life can improve your physical and mental health, as well as bringing the joy of learning a new skill. Here’s how….
Some Health Benefits of Learning Piano Later in Life
Having helped over 3000 students aged 50+ to learn piano, it’s delightful to discover how many students have reported improvements in their physical and mental health since joining the ‘Easy Piano in Later Life’ course.
- Arthritis-friendly: Several students report improved flexibility and reduced pain in arthritic fingers since starting to learn piano. Their evidence is backed up by arthritis specialists who recommend that even short periods of regular practice can be an excellent way of giving your fingers a physio workout. One of our students, Pam, shares how learning piano has reduced her arthritis symptoms, here:
- Keeping Your Brain Active: We all know how important it is to keep our brains engaged as we get older. Learning piano is a great way to sharpen cognitive function and improve memory as it encourages co-ordination of mind and body, as well as stimulating ”the grey cells”. Research shows that learning piano directly impacts neural pathways and contributes to increased neuro-plasticity, i.e. the brain’s ability to adapt itself to new stimuli.
- Improved Mental Health: ‘Mental health charity ‘Anxiety UK’ advises that playing piano on a regular basis can help to process negative thoughts, and much research points to an easing of symptoms of depression among those learning to play.
- Staving off dementia: Links are also being made between learning to play later in life and the strengthening of white matter in the brain, which relates to memory function.
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Good News – it’s Easier Than You Think!
If you think you’re not musical, or that learning piano later in life might be too challenging, take heart! Declan Cosgrove has developed a method (called DecPlay) which is specifically designed to make learning piano easy for people aged 50+. It dispenses with the usual obstacles to learning piano, i.e. practising scales and learning to ‘read music’ (ie notation dots). Instead, it’s based on the simple musical patterns that most pop professionals, including Sir Paul McCartney, use to play songs on piano. This makes for a more intuitive and flexible way of learning. With thousands of success stories with students starting the course aged 50 to 93, DecPlay is designed for Silversurfers just like you.
Our approach is so unique it has been awarded a patent and has been featured on the BBC.
This fun new way of learning fast-tracks students to playing songs they know and love incredibly quickly. It’s ideal for anyone who wants to learn popular songs and simple.
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