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Originally Posted by aleuzzi
Chris is probably a competent classical pianist--no more, no less. She possesses the right amount of chops for blues and rock. But given that she only studied seriously into her early teens, she is probably not exceptional (nor below par) with the classical repertoire.
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Yeah, about. She'd be intermediate from the neighborhood pedagogy point of view (where the majority of people who have been playing all their lives fall), but from the relative heights of, say, music institutes or university level, she'd be amateur. (Incidentally, she has wisely admitted to all this herself.)
What she brings to her pop & blues-rock isn't enormous technical facility but the stamp of idiosyncratic personal style.
Still, it never hurts -- as she would undoubtedly agree -- to practice sight-reading your classical music!