The moral of the story is this, if you enjoy music, play it, listen to it, whatever. No matter how well you do, no matter how advanced you are, the sheer activity that it produces in the brain will make you smarter, improve your self confidence, and increase your memory among other great things.
...A study of 7,500 university students revealed that music majors scored the highest reading\r\nscores among all majors including English, biology, chemistry and math...
A lot of music students come in with the question of "How do I write a song?" So, I analyzed my own songwriting, and came up with three basic approaches to sparking the songwriting process.