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I used to share that sentiment myself, until I (finally) picked up an instrument two years ago.

It turns out, you don't get very far learning to play music without also incidentally gaining an intuitive understanding of how most songs are constructed.

For example, most modern music is based on about three or four main chords put together in a certain sequence and then repeated throughout the song. If you know song well enough to hum it, and can figure out (or look up) what those chords are, then you are 80% of the way toward being able to _play_ the song because the melody is (mostly) made of up the notes within those chords.