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Music learning and mental health can be improved with creative improvisation exercises when playing instruments

Music provokes multiple emotions about us, not only when listening to it, but also when we give wings to our creativity and we ourselves generate a melody when playing an instrument. Music pedagogy professionals are already taking advantage of this ability to improve teaching methodologies in the classroom because, if students feel positive emotions when playing, they retain more of what they have learned. They are also taking advantage of the positive emotions they feel when playing an instrument in the field of music therapy, to treat depression, anxiety or other mental health problems.
 
If until now the positive potential of music in these fields had been confirmed by pedagogues and therapists, now it also has the scientific endorsement of a study led by Rafael Ramírez-Meléndez, researcher at the Music Technology Group (MTG) of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) at UPF. This is the first scientific study in the world on the emotional state of musicians when exercising their creativity when improvising by playing an instrument, which has recently been exposed in the article "The Creative Drummer: An EEG-Based Pilot Study on the Correlates of Emotions and Creative Drum Playing", published by the journal Brain Sciences on January 2.
 
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"The Creative Drummer: An EEG-Based Pilot Study on the Correlates of Emotions and Creative Drum Playing"

Rafael Ramirez-Melendez i Xavier Reija

Brain Sci. 2023, 13(1), 88

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13010088