* Nursery rhymes provide a wide variety of benefits to children, which include the development of language and reading skills.

* Nursery rhymes that are sung also provide a child’s first musical foundations.

* Renting an instrument may be better in the short term if you are unsure of your child’s level of interest in his musical education.

For any child engaged in learning to play an instrument, one of the significant hurdles in his musical education is the point when he has to make sense of sheet music.  The arcane bars and symbols found in the pages of any conventional music book can, after all, be daunting to understand, regardless of one’s age.  Musical notes are a language all their own, at once both foreign and universal, within which lie the keys to practically all the music composed in human history.