Linguists study how speech is articulated and perceived, and there are lots of interesting things in the process. What about music? Recently I practiced more violin, and then more piano, but in general it is very interesting to observe my physical movement (such as bow arm movement with violin, wrist movement, coordination, left hand vibrato rate, left hand wrist angle, etc) and adjust my movement based on auditory feedback--when I heard myself playing. There are lots of nuance in it and I try different movements to better adjust my production of sound. Sometimes I watch videos and see how people talk about these things. Isn't this analogous to babies babbling--trying out different tongue positions, articulatory gestures and figure out how to produce the right speech sound?
So in a nutshell, the secret of learning to play a new instrument is much like learning to talk, except that we are probably much an expert at manipulating our tongue and jaw than those fine movement of our hand and arm, plus the coordination with the instrument. Also, in a nutshell, the masters of music must have the expertise of doing these. During hundreds and thousands of years of musical practice, people also kind of figured out techniques to best achieve a perfect match between the movement and the sound, such as the bow arm on the violin. That's what your violin teachers taught you. But keep in mind that, even though your teacher thought that everything s/he taught you about those movements must be followed strictly, you should know better--they are just one out of many sets of methods that could produce a good sound from a movement, a shortcut. But just because this one movement produces the good sound doesn't mean other movements cannot. There we have the different styles of playing. All in all, music is not a science (there is not one right answer), but it is also a science
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