will i ever be able to learn music well?

Question

i love it so much, but notes confuse me terribly. just the whole reading them, and memorizing, and seeing how they interlock is so confusing for me. also, understanding the time is really hard. im 15
apparently i have a very musical brain, i took a proffessional IQ test, and scored really high in spatial/abstract 3D thinking. and my passion for music is 99% based on the myers-briggs test...which is really high.
but i just cant grasp it! its really frustrating because i want to be involved with music, but cant be...
maybe will it be like reading? i was apparently very underdeveloped in reading skills, and seeing the sequences in the alphabet and organization of words...but then i had a special private tutor and got to 12 grade reading level in 1st grade (within a year).
is music similar to that? or am i screwed? XD ive always struggled with math too. but im good at geometry and 3D shapes....is that in any correlation to music?

Answer 1

hey,



wrong category.



Reading music just takes practise like everything else. Break the rythms down. Think like 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & which will help place the notes etc better.



You'll get it eventually!! I can read music like i read a book now!

Answer 2

you might want to pick up an instrument that is geometric (like the guitar) as opposed to spacial (like the piano).



If you look at the strings and the frets on a guitar, it's like a grid. There is a system for transcribing music for guitar called 'tabulature' (based on this grid system) which makes it easy to learn how to play the guitar without reading music. You might find that this clicks for you much easier than the other instruments you tried.

Answer 3

Keep practicing.