i think pianists, string, woodwind and guitar players look at scores differently, they visualize them and start recruiting motor skills ahead of time. WHen i l

i think pianists, string, woodwind and guitar players look at scores differently, they visualize them and start recruiting motor skills ahead of time. WHen i look at a Bach score as a pianist, i just kind of flow thru it, if i see it as a guitar score, i think of the simplest fingering patterns (CAGED patterns are the simplest framework), a woodwind player wants to pinpoint the large intervals and octave breaks and other difficulties where intonation and tone become tricky (whereas with somebody laying out a c++ project or studying Baby Rudin (real analysis), you can't explain it in terms of muscle memory