yes. what a lot of people do is try to find a sort of end-around by resort to an area they are more comfortable in, visuals, language, 'what can I read?'.tapper mike wrote: If you really want to learn it comes in performance/physical practice. The best way is to practice songs that match what you are trying to achieve and ....
music is intervals between notes and intervals in time between events. it's about hearing those, identifying the shape of those in motion.
as pointed out, memory correspondences of intervals, the 'Jaws' second, the 'Maria' augmented fourth, et cetera works for people. after a time, you get an ear for these things out of a particular experience with them in context, in songs... you trade ideas in improvisation and you obtain facility identifying intervals and patterns. abstracting things out of all context is dry, maybe not so fruitful.