As it wasn't really clear whether you meant listening to music, or playing music, I'll approach the topic from both angles:
Listening to music
- Music is a relaxant to the stress teens usually face in schoolwork. It stimulates the brain which in turn helps with pain relief, reducing stress and memory.
- Music connects with the automatic nervous system—brain function, blood pressure, and heartbeat—and the limbic system, where your feelings and emotions live. Music around 60 beats per minute can also cause the brain to synchronize with the beat, causing alpha brainwaves.
- Music may be subjective to individuals, but teens with common tastes can bond over music, as this common interest can forge a strong friendship and make a great conversation.
Playing music
- In bands or orchestras, collaboration helps build important kinship and teamwork skills.
- Expanding on musical knowledge can exercise the right brain--the artistic side, and fosters an individual's creativity on a more expressive scale. This also helps them discover a side of themselves that they might not have seen before.
- Playing music on an instrument, be it the common ones like piano, guitar, violin, drums, cello, flute, or singing, it can train the dexterity and strength of the body (mostly fingers and vocal cords).
Take this with any amount of salt you want. Hope this helps your article!
