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Soft Skills – How music lessons prepare you for the future
With employers, the most in-demand skills are soft-skills. When hiring, employers and companies consider soft skills a more important attribute in job applicants than hard skills – specific job-related knowledge...
Train these 5 life skills with music lessons
A new study shows what we observe every day at Modern Music School: music lessons promote the exact skills psychologists and educational experts highlight as the key skills for a successful, balanced and happy life...
How play-based learning can lead to more successful children
Self-regulation is the ability to regulate one’s behaviour, thoughts and emotions, and, since it can be a better indication of academic success than IQ, self-regulation is a hot topic in the world of education today...
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Language Promotion Through Music
Music and speech have a lot in common. Characteristics such as pitch, tempo, intonation and timbre play an equally important role in speaking and in making music. In fact, musical and linguistic stimuli are even processed in the same regions of the brain. And on top of that, children develop the ability to sing and speak at the same time. It's no wonder that musical language development is used so successfully. But how exactly does language promotion through music work?
Losing Weight with Intermittent Fasting
When it comes to nutrition, it's not only what we eat that matters, but also the time frame in which we eat. In my latest blog post, I explain how interval fasting has helped me lose weight and what positive effect fasting phases can have beyond weight loss.
Why do we love music?
Music influences our mood. It sets us in motion or makes us calm down. And our favorite songs give us goosebumps. But why is that actually the case? Why do we like music and what do we need it for?