"The student should concentrate on: Development of extension. Strength of attack of the 5th finger. Perfecting of chord-playing. Flexibility of the hand and the hand and the wrist. Rhythmical independence. In spite of the fact that the outstanding difficulty of this composition relates to the successive broken chords which form its melodic structure, it is imperative that before undertaking the particular study of the latter, special exercises should be devoted to acquire the individual mobility of each finger. It is a common mistake when practising said passages in broken chords to use the wrist as principal performing agent. This compels the fingers to press the keys only as far dwon as the swiftness of the wrist moving along the keyboard will allow; a certain stiffness and compactness of the fingers result, and this impairs both ease of execution and ton value."
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