I have never been able to follow a score despite music lessons and playing in an orchestra (I faked it).

I find such a striking difference between notation that just swims in front of my eyes:

https://musescore.com/user/14835636/scores/6186772

And a bar graph which I can hear when muted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipzR9bhei_o

I have a similar issue with algebraic notation, the signifier and signified never connects. So much misery spending hours with a mass of punctuated greek in a cs paper to discover it describes a triangle. The decryption is not even sticky, I look away for a second and it immediately re-encrypts back to soup.

I don't understand why since programming languages having always felt natural and something I learned as a pre-teen just by being left alone with a BBC micro and a "type in a game" book.