My dd9 is moderately gifted with her strongest quality by far being verbal skills. She has picked up the piano very quickly but interestingly, and not surprisingly, it is the "reading" of music that comes easily to her. Her rhythm is not very good but her reading is so good that she comes out ahead.
This caught my attention, because I was just doing a math riddle book with my highly verbal DS5, and when we came to a page that had music notation on it, I discovered that he was able to read much of it. I don't know the first thing about music and had no idea he had learned any of this, but apparently it's part of his kindergarten music curriculum and he has soaked it up. I'm now thinking of starting lessons this year.
