Nice post Bro, I can totally relate to what you are saying because I am also a musician,this post reminds me of the first day I stepped into a symphonic band practise in my university.. I was terrified and the conductor came up to me and handed me the piece("Nightingale"by yanni). After the pre count everyone started jamming but I was lost, my sight reading skill was not and maybe still not very good. After like ten measures the conductor stopped and he said something that I still remember till this day, he said to all the new musicians "if you must be blind, then don't be deaf ".... it took time before I understood properly what he said which meant that if your sight reading skill is poor, then your ear must be great...In Africa we mostly play by ear.