No offence to people who play classical musical, but in my experience talking, studying and playing with them they seem to be incredibly good at technique, theory, reading is exceptional yet can't seem to improvise or play much from ear - even my grade 12 music teacher said he'd been playing piano and organ for 40 years, classically trained and could read 3 staves of music simultaneously (he did this with Toccata and Fugue in D minor by Bach on a church organ - two keyboards and one for his feet!!! Very impressive) yet had only that year begun learning to improvise and said he found it really difficult. Take away the sheet music and they're stranded. But I guess they look at a lot of people who can solo over rock and walk over jazz but can't read notation when put in front of them and think similarly!
). don't worry, she'll still own you in reading and composing.
