Learning Guitar--Step By Step for Children and Their Parents - Softcover

Zisa, Peter Joseph Edd

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798201134082

Verlag: Total Health Publications, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Whether you want to learn to play, or you have children you would like to teach to play, this book is the answer to your search. Written by a concert guitarist who has taught university and private classes for many years. Recognized as a master teacher of music--and of the teaching of the joys and techniques of making the music through the guitar.

Scientific research indicates playing the guitar benefits a child's emotional

and cognitive development. It confirms that playing an instrument helps verbal

memory, second-language pronunciation, the ability to read and write, as well as their cognitive thinking skills. Children with music training enjoy better academic performance. Some of the research suggests playing an instrument impacts intelligence including better scores on IQ tests. Of course, it depends on the intensity and duration of the practice time.

Other benefits of music training, supported by scientific research, are the

development of memory skills, greater ability to concentrate, improved motor skills, as well as improved calculating and pattern-recognition skills. Additionally, playing the guitar helps children develop goal-oriented self-help behavioral skills; such as breaking down large intimidating tasks into small achievable goals. Developing a step by step approach to problem solving leads to success; which, in turn, helps children acquire an appetite for self-discipline, which in turn results in achievement

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Peter Joseph Zisa is an award-winning concert guitarist, composer, writer, and educator. Zisa is a skilled performer of many styles of music, from blues, jazz, rock, folk, and country to gospel, Latin, Spanish flamenco, and classical. His forty years of college and university teaching experience includes twenty years teaching music therapy students in completing their guitar proficiency. While not a licensed music therapist, Zisa has twenty years of experience of using music to help adults with dementia and Alzheimer's disease at care facilities, providing comfort to hospice patients and their families, as well providing specialized music activities for autistic and attention-deficit children

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Total Health Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798201134082
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland