Rod Contreras Piano Studio

Here is Gibson playing and singing Neil Young’s Harvest Moon https://www.instagram.com/tv/CHhCffDDz3U/

Emma playing Comptine d'un autre été - L'après-midi by Yann Tiersen

Music is the ultimate gym for your brain!! In this study (see link below), the neuroscientists tracked and monitored changes in 20 children who have been learning to read music and play orchestral instruments through the YOLA at HOLA program beginning at age six. The students in this study receive approximately seven hours of music instruction per week. They were compared to a group of 19 children in a community sports program, as well as a control group of 21 children who ...were not involved in any specific after-school programs. The new findings, published last week in the prestigious science journal Cerebral Cortex, show that children receiving music instruction demonstrated changes in the size of the brain regions that are engaged in processing sound. These regions, called "auditory association areas," are located just above the ears, and in the children who received music training were found to have an increased thickness in the right versus the left hemisphere of the brain, showing that music training impacts brain structure. The young musicians also showed a stronger connectivity in the corpus callosum, an area that allows communication between the two hemispheres of the brain. https://www.laphil.com/press/releases/1672