Excerpt from The University Course of Music Study: A Standard Text-Work; Grade II, Book VII Slow practice must always remain the ba'sis of rapid playing. Only by this means can the nec essary sureness be attained. Before a passage can _be played fast, every problem. Of fingering and most of those Of muscular action must be Solved. The fingers must find their keys with infallible accuracy and the foundation of this accuracy can be laid only by much slow preparation. Speed may then be gradually increased, though it. Often happens that when enough slow practice has been done the player can pass at once to a fast tempo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.