Music = Brain Exercise

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/26/health/mental-health/music-brain-science/index.html When you play music, you are exercising your brain in a unique way. In fact, very few things change the brain like music does. "I think there's enough evidence to say that musical experience, musical exposure, musical training, all of those things change your brain," says Dr. Charles Limb, associate professor of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery at Johns Hopkins University. "It allows you to think in a way that you used to not think, and it also trains a lot of other cognitive facilities that have nothing to do with music."