As your music ambition grows, at some point you'll get to the hard part: building the 5-way translation between what you hear, what you play, what you sing, wha

As your music ambition grows, at some point you'll get to the hard part: building the 5-way translation between what you hear, what you play, what you sing, what notes you see on the page, and what sounds you imagine in your mind. The more time you spend on only one line in this pentagram (for example translating from notes on the page to playing an instrument), the bigger the "imbalance" will be when you eventually realize you need the entire pentagram. You'll turn to sight-singing, dictation, audiation and all these other exercises everybody hates, your progress will be slow and difficult, but by then you'll know why it's necessary.