It is better for children to start learning vocal music when they are 14-16 years old.
It is best to start learning vocal music after the voice-changing period, because before that, it belongs to children’s vocal music. The so-called children’s vocal music can start learning when the child is four years old. This period is the time when the child’s intelligence In the golden period, children have strong learning ability, and the cut-off age for children's vocal music is the first half of the voice-changing period.
If you learn vocal music within the first six months of the voice-changing period, your voice will be damaged, so this period must be avoided. Starting to learn vocal music when children are young can improve their sensitivity, musicality, literacy and other benefits to music.
When a child passes the age of 14-16, the voice-changing period is safely passed. At this time, real vocal music can begin. Once a girl passes the voice-changing period, her voice will increase by an octave, while for boys, the voice will increase by an octave. A child's voice is an octave lower, which is what our adult voice sounds like. The vocal training at this time is very different from the vocal music in childhood.
Benefits of learning vocal music:
The lyrics of a good song are often worthy of consideration. When children learn to sing songs, they naturally expand their vocabulary and learn more artistic language expressions invisibly. Generally, teachers will also require children to pronounce words clearly when singing. It is best to sing with emotion, strong and weak, and fast and slow.
This will allow children to pronounce words more correctly, better understand the stress, rhythm, sentence structure, etc. of the language. Many adults around us are troubled by singing out of tune, not keeping up with the beat, and speaking out of breath. These problems are difficult to correct in adulthood, but they can be greatly improved through vocal music learning in childhood.
Establishing a standard sense of music from an early age will be of great help to children to further understand the world of music and learn musical instruments.