Band 6+: The bar chart shows the percentage of school children learning to play four different musical instruments (violin, guitar, piano, drums) in 2005, 2010, 2015.

The bar chart compares the percentages of students learning to play four kinds of musical instruments in three different years; 2005, 2010, and 2015.

In general, the instruments in the study were being learnt by far more students in 2015 than in the previous years, with the exception of the violin. Furthermore, the guitar and the piano remained the most popular instruments to learn in all surveyed years.

In 2005, approximately 11% of school children were learning to play the guitar, the piano, and the violin, while only 5% of students were learning to play the drums. By 2010, the guitar and piano had almost doubled in popularity, with about 20% and 18% of students learning to play them. In the same year, the proportion of school kids learning to play the drums stayed the same, while the percentage of those learning the violin decreased marginally.

In 2015, the percentage of school children learning the guitar saw an increase of approximately 10%, while that of piano learners more than doubled to reach approximately 40%. Furthermore, although the percentage of children learning the drums increased slightly to 8%, there was a moderate decrease in the figures for the violin, at only 5%.