Barnes, T. (2015, February 17). Music Lessons Were the Best Thing Your Parents Ever Did for You, According to Science. Retrieved May 14, 2018

If your parents ever submitted you to regular music lessons as a kid, you probably got in a fight with them once or twice about it. Maybe you didn’t want to go; maybe you didn’t like practicing. But we have some bad news: They were right. It turns out that all those endless major scale exercises and repetitions of “Chopsticks” had some incredible effects on our minds.