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The positive effects of playing a musical instrument range from improving brain efficiency to heightening speech processing, which makes it easier to understand what people are saying in a noisy ...

When one first learns any musical instrument, there are traditionally very little initial opportunities to play complex or unorthodox musical chords or scales. One starts with the basic chords and ...

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in the December 2008 issue of Macworld, prior to the introduction of GarageBand ’09. If you want to record music, you must know how to play it. Learning ...