What instrument burns most calories?

Drums and trombone provide the highest musical cardiovascular workout - at around 280 and 245 calories per hour.
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Does playing a musical instrument burn calories?

A new study finds that playing instruments can actually be beneficial to your health in more than one way. Caloriecount.com has discovered that 1 hour of violin playing burns approximately 175 calories – the equivalent of 1/2 a Snickers Bar or 2 glasses of wine!
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How many calories does playing the clarinet burn?

According to this source from ChaCha, playing a woodwind instrument burns 132 calories per hour for someone weighing 145 pounds.
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How many calories do musicians burn?

Especially when it comes to live performances, concerts are in fact real workouts, which have nothing to envy to a training session in the gym. Recent studies have shown that a person can burn approximately 200 calories by simply singing while standing.
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Does playing saxophone burn calories?

Generally, a 300 pound man playing speed-metal on a baritone saxophone in 110 degree heat will burn about 3,000 cal. per hour. Of course, a 150 pound man playing a Kenny G tune on soprano while seated in an air-conditioned studio may only burn a few hundred calories per hour.
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Does playing flute burn calories?

Calories Burned: 58 calories per hour.
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Does playing piano lose weight?

In simple terms, playing piano does actually burn more calories than most people realise. For example, it certainly burns more calories than watching t.v. (which wouldn't be hard because even sleeping burns more calories than watching t.v.)
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Does guitar count as exercise?

Playing guitar burns around 140 calories an hour if you're sitting down, but 200 calories an hour if you play standing up.
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Does playing guitar and singing burn calories?

A person can burn as many as 204 calories per hour while playing the guitar – more if they are also singing, standing, or moving around on stage.
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How many calories does playing the trumpet burn?

Calories Burned: 86 calories per hour.
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Does playing an instrument count as exercise?

Exercise. Playing an instrument can be a great form of physical activity. Playing the piano, guitar or drums takes a lot of upper body strength and playing for extended periods of time can help build muscle while also improving your posture and increasing your stamina.
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Does singing reduce face fat?

Does Singing Burn Face Fat? While singing can help with weight loss everywhere, it won't help you lose weight in just one particular area like your face. Spot reduction for face fat is impossible, but you can easily lose face fat and other areas of fat with cardio.
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Does playing violin make you smarter?

Violin lessons boost memory and mental capacities.

Many studies show that playing the violin (alongside other musical instruments) even for just a year positively affects your brain's capacity for memory. It can also improve your reading skills, language processing, speech and attention span.
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How many calories does singing burn while sitting?

Calories Burned

A person weighing 150 pounds will burn approximately 100 calories singing for an hour while sitting down, and a 200-pound individual will burn about 140 calories. Stand up to belt out those tunes and the calories burned increase to 140 for somebody weighing 150 pounds and 180 for a 200-pound person.
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Why do guitarists have veiny hands?

Its just because your finger muscles are getting used a lot so they need more oxygen. And it also helps to get rid of heat if veins are close to the surface. Vasodilation FTW! I had kinda veiny hands before I started playing guitar...
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Can guitar build muscles?

While guitarists are not known for being muscular, all that strumming does add up and will amount to building muscle in your arms. Much like burning calories, the amount of time you spend playing each day will determine how much strength you can expect to build.
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Will my fingers get longer if I play guitar?

Playing guitar does make the fingers of a fretting hand longer. That's because fingers are stretched when they're in play. Over time, with stretching and strengthening, fingers do become a bit longer. If you play guitar for more than a several years now, you should notice the difference.
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Is playing guitar addictive?

Like high-performance cars or class A drugs, guitars are an addiction that is practically impossible to shake. GAS* is a very real, very troubling part of being a guitarist.
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Are guitarists smart?

Guitar Players Are Multi Skilled

We use both our creative right brain and the thinking left brain at the same time. And it gets better. Learning the guitar actually rewires your brain over time so you have faster access to the thinking left brain area.
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What are the cons of playing guitar?

The 2 Cons of Learning the Guitar
  • Guitars Can be Expensive. Guitars are an expensive instrument, and if you're wanting to start playing, you'll likely have to set a few hundred dollars aside to get a decent starter guitar. ...
  • Learning the Guitar Takes Time and Patience. Learning the guitar doesn't happen overnight.
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Does playing piano tone your arms?

One of the hallmarks of good piano technique is keeping your arms as relaxed as possible, which is also working against you if your goal is losing weight. This will make the muscles such as the tricep and bicep, as well as back muscles, from firing in a manner that would require more energy expenditure.
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What music can make you lose weight?

50 Tunes to Help You Lose Weight Fast
  • Shut Up and Dance – Walk the Moon Amazon/iTunes.
  • Bangarang – Skrillex ft. ...
  • Let Me Love You – DJ Snake ft. ...
  • Rockabye – Clean Bandit ft. ...
  • Cold Water – Major Lazer ft. ...
  • 24K Magic – Bruno Mars Amazon/iTunes.
  • Blaze Up the Fire – Major Lazer ft. ...
  • One Wine – Machel Montano & Sean Paul ft.
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What muscles are used in piano?

We utilize most of our neck, shoulder and upper back muscles, tendons and ligaments when we play the piano. Think about how you look down at the keyboard, look back up at the music, glance to the right or the left to check your fingerings, etc.
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Does playing trumpet strengthen lungs?

One of the benefits of learning the Trumpet (and many other woodwind & brass instruments) is the fact it can improve your fitness and health. Playing the Trumpet requires your full lung capacity and is one of the most important skills when playing a brass instrument.
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