Today, for the first time in a couple of years, probably, I sat down at the piano with my music advanced music theory book in hand. I opened it. I read. I played a few chords. I can’t believe how much has slipped away of these past few years. All composers should never forget – and the best do – that there is a myriad of tools at our disposal.

Today, I needed a refresher on augmented 6th chords. Don’t worry if you have no idea what I’m talking about. This is just a group of three chords that composers use to move a piece of music to a new key.

It was awesome. It’s the first time in a long time that I’ve been excited about composing non-popular music (unpopular music?) like orchestral stuff and jazz. Anyway, it made me want to go back to school to study music as a grad student.

I doubt that will happen.

Anyway, if you’ve been thinking about going back to school, I’d love to hear from you about what you’d like to study and what school you think you’d like to go to.