Chord Overstreet is excited to "jump back" into filming Glee.

The 22-year-old actor and musician will return to Glee this season after declining an offer to appear on the show earlier this year.

Since this summer Chord, who plays Sam Evans on the TV series, was spending most of his time working on his solo album.

"I wanted to do a bunch of recording and take time to do that," Chord told Entertainment Weekly. "Luckily, everything kind of opened back up [in my schedule] so I could jump back in."

Producers are planning to reintroduce Chord's character Sam in the show at a time when the glee club needs to be galvanised.

"Finn Cory Monteith's character and Rachel Lea Michele's character are looking for somebody to help them with sectionals So they bring Sam back to school," Chord explained.

"He tries to kind of pick everything back up where he left off and he realises that everything has changed a little bit since he's gone. He has to kind of re-adapt a little bit."

Chord is not planning to return to the show indefinitely. He wants to keep his creative options open.

"Right now, we're playing it by ear, having fun and [I'm] just enjoying doing that and doing music also."

Chord will reappear in the season on the episode scheduled to air in America on December 6. Glee is currently in its third season.