Do Music Lessons Make You Smarter?

Do Music Lessons Make You Smarter?: Practice makes progress, if not perfection, for most things in life. Generally, practicing a skill--be it basketball, chess or the tuba--mostly makes you better at whatever it was you practiced. Even related areas do not benefit much. Doing intensive basketball drills does not usually make a person particularly good at football. Chess experts are not necessarily fabulous at math, and tuba players can't just put down their tubas and pick up cellos.[caption id="attachment_1352" align="alignleft" width="239" caption="Courtesy of Robert Couse-Baker via Flickr."] [/caption] [More]