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My piano teacher asked me yesterday at my lesson how I had learned to read notes so quickly. I stared at her and thought this very strange, since I still struggle, after nearly three years of playing piano, to understand her when she tells me to play a "G." Gradually, I began to understand her.

She has a friend who is learning to play the guitar. It is very slow going because she is always saying to herself, as she reads the music, C chord, that is these notes, and recites them in her head,...