Brush up on your theory

Scales, scales, scales. Does it bring back old memories? Remember when your Royal Conservatory slave driver made you practice up and down the keyboard, until you were blue in the face? What about your theory rudiments? Key signatures. Scales. Chords. Transposing. Remember doing your theory homework, wishing you were playing road hockey instead? I do. But now I'm glad I stayed in. I'm glad my parents made me sit there and do it. I remember a lot of things from those days. But many years of not practicing have made me rusty. I can't read or write like I used to. Sight reading is lost on me.

It's not too late for people like us. We can brush up. We can go through our old workbooks and scales.

I recently picked up a copy of the same text I used as a kid. The big difference is that now it matters. It's going to help me read, understand, compose, and most importantly, communicate. It's a daunting 300 pages of written exercises. My goal is to finish it by year end. Wish me luck!