Varnon

HA! The title is a joke.
But seriously.

I have no training and have pretty much only played my own material for four years. I'll dissect something and learn how to play it just to learn the composition techniques, but I rarely ever follow through with practicing it so I can play it.

I'm a big fan of fast tempos and counterpoint. Not such a big fan of major keys.

My hand independence is okay... I can do some decent jumping around with my left hand, and I've got pretty good pinky dexterity in my right hand. I have diffculty playing two melodies, but for some reason I have no problem with polyrythms.

My band is about to finish up our work for a bit while I go get my phd, and I think it would be a good time for me to learn things to enhance my skills. Any suggestions? What do you think some critical works might be?