Keyboard Training

Keyboard participants receive small keyboards and headphones for home use and are advised to practise regularly. Prior brain-level evidence for piano training in healthy older adults is limited by small samples and attrition and has not targeted adults with MCI. Keyboard learning is described as combining motor movement with cognitive tasks in a way that may improve cognitive flexibility. Reading sheet music repeatedly uses cognitive resources. The keyboard arm includes piano technique, theory, dexterity, notation reading, rhythm, sight reading, and solo and ensemble playing.