Guitar Playing and Your Brain

Ever wonder what is going on in your brain when you play the guitar? Most musicians and music educators are primarily focused on performing or teaching how to play an instrument and easily to overlook all the amazing scientific data accumulated over the past decades about brain development during music education. Neuroscientists like Dr. Daniel J. Levitin study this field extensively, and their research offers insights and dazzling data on the effects of making and listening to music on brain development."Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans", Levitin writes in his book titled This Is Your Brain On Music.