Ofthen the key to understanding mathematics (or geometry, or physics for that matter) is intuition--some kind of internal mental construction whos manipulation we understand. Perhaps learning music and how to play it (particularly on the guitar or piano where intervals are spatially coded on the fretboard and keyboards) provides an intuition that makes the leap to understanding the theory of chord construction, inversions, and progressions in their numerical representations a lot easier to understand. I imagine if one tried to learn the theory cold, without ever having played a scale or learned the finger patterns for different chords, or couldn't read music, it would be as difficult as some people find math.
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