Working on Fly Me To The Moon. Don’t know how I got this far without realizing before how to use diminished chords to move along a melody or how to make left hand support simpler than four notes but more complex than unison octaves. If only someone just sat me down and said it’s like this man. The university experience too, I wish someone sat me down five years ago and said it’s like this, 7 – 12 writers are referenced frequently. Just read a bit of each and you’ll be ahead of the curve. Just the major 6th diminished scale, just in 6 or 7 keys and you’re gold. I hope that’s what I provide students, clear shortcuts, a no bullshit direct path outta dodge. I wanted my daughter to consider the ticklish poetry of the lyric. I said this singer’s name is Frank Sinatra, why do you think he sings “In other words, hold my hand” after singing “Fly me to the moon, let me play up there with those stars, let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars”. She thought about it and concluded there was no answer that made sense. Then I said holding the hand of someone you’re falling in love with feels like you’ve gone to another world. She thinks I’m playing a joke on her, still waiting for the real answer.