The Benefit of Music

OUTLINE
The Advantages and Disadvantages when Playing A Musical Instrument.
I. Introduction
There are several advantages and disadvantages when playing a musical instrument. (Thesis Statement)
Body
II. The first advantage of playing musical instrument is increase the capacity of your memory.
A. Stimulate your brain and can increase your memory.
1. The part of the brain that control motor skills such as using your hands, running and swimming will become more active.
2. Help your IQ increase in seven points, in both children and adults. (Alleyne,2009)
B. Changes the shape power of the brain
1. As a therapy to improve cognitive skills.
2. Musicians show improvements in auditory verbal memory and auditory attention, but not in visual memory or visual attention.

III. Next, the advantage of playing musical instrument is expose to cultural history of an instrument.
A. Music has their own history and background that can further your appreciation of other cultures.
1. Learn a variety of music types such as classical traditions, folk music and other genres
2. Certain musical instruments have represented the identity of community such as gambus.
B. Care about the remain of ancestors such as classical music so that it will not disappear by the lapse of the time.
1. Expose the younger generation on to classical music.
2. Campaign for the preservation of classical music instrument.

IV. Besides that, boost your team skills also one of the advantage of playing musical instrument.
A. Playing an instrument requires you to work with others to make music.
1. Band an orchestra setting you must learn how to cooperate with the people around you.
2. Playing music as a group builds a sense of community and enables you to feel as if you belong to something bigger than yourself
B. To make beautiful and organize music.
1. Each player and section learns how to listen to each other and play together.
2. To perform in a group you must have tolerance for each others

V. There also have some disadvantages of playing musical instrument.
A. Firstly, for student, it can effect on studies if they not know how to manage time well.
1. Students will get tired to handle both tasks.
2. It will disrupt the learning process and causes education declined
B. Secondly, it can waste the time and money.
1. Musical instrument such as guitar, piano and violin are expensive so it such a waste if you don’t use regularly.
2. To play musical instrument need time commitment.
C. Thirdly, it can affect health risk for example can affect eardrum.
1. According scientific studies, loud sounds can make the eardrum damaged because of vibration and deposition that occurs in eardrum.
2. The rate to get disease if the musical instruments are shared is high.

Conclusion Well, it is hoped that as people become more active involving to play musical instrument so that they will appreciate of the instrument from hereditary. Other than that, playing musical instrument has many advantages that they can achieve from it. In addition, with this exposure can attract many people, especially student because it can increase the capacity of the memory.

REFERENCES
Kamien, R. (2004). Music an Appreciation. (8th ed.). New York: McGraw Hill
Alleyne, R. (2009, October 27). Playing a musical instrument makes you brainier. The
Telegraph. Retrieved August 7, 2012, from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sciene-news

Matthews, M. (Ed.).(2011). Effective music teaching. Retrieved August 5, 2012, from http://www.effectivemusicteaching.com Bennet, A. and Bennet, D. (2008). The human knowledge system: music and brain coherence, 38, 277-295. doi: 10.1108/03055720810904817

References: Kamien, R. (2004). Music an Appreciation. (8th ed.). New York: McGraw Hill Alleyne, R. (2009, October 27). Playing a musical instrument makes you brainier. The Telegraph. Retrieved August 7, 2012, from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sciene-news Matthews, M. (Ed.).(2011). Effective music teaching. Retrieved August 5, 2012, from http://www.effectivemusicteaching.com Bennet, A. and Bennet, D. (2008). The human knowledge system: music and brain coherence, 38, 277-295. doi: 10.1108/03055720810904817