AN AID TO CONCENTRATION
And yet, we must concentrate on these AUTOMATIC FINGER CONTROL exercises if we are to get the best and most out of them.
Experiment shows that if we plan to study at some definite time each day, the mind gets into the habit of responding at this particular time and is more ready to work than if we take up the practice at irregular intervals.
So choose some definite practice periods—bed time, and the first thing on arising if possible, but some definite time, at any rate. Then, once you have set aside that hour, observe it religiously as your practice period until something comes up that changes your whole mode of life sufficiently to warrant setting a new study hour. Never excuse yourself for even so much as a single day. Seven days a week is the best way to master AUTOMATIC FINGER CONTROL.
If you will follow these simple suggestions and rules of instruction of this course, your progress is going to be sure, rapid, and very gratifying.
THE AUTHOR.
U. S. School of Music
225 Fifth Avenue
NEW YORK CITY
Departmental Memo.
My dear Mr. Kemp:
It is indeed gratifying to report the remarkable success of the Course in AUTOMATIC FINGER CONTROL. The Sixth edition is exhausted, and I am placing a requisition for the Seventh.
There was never any question as to the unusual benefits that each student would derive from this new, quick way of learning his instrument. It is a fact established by tests and experience that training the muscles to work as fast as the brain—and training them away from the instrument so that the pupil has only this one thing to think about—does away with many hours of practice and develops a more perfect technique.
But the thing that pleases me most, is to see the way our students have taken hold of the work. It seems to me typical of the Spirit of Progress. People want the very best they can obtain in the way of instruction. They want to take advantage of every short-cut. And that shows great wisdom. Money can be replaced many fold. Books can be replaced. Homes can be replaced. Every material thing can be duplicated. But TIME, once spent is forever lost. It is the young man and woman who takes advantage of those things which save the minutes and hours and days who make the startling successes in the world.
So I feel that we are doing a great service to Humanity at large, and to every lover of Music in particular in bringing AUTOMATIC FINGER CONTROL to the fore. Indeed, I believe we would be justified in insisting that every one of our students—beginners or advanced—cover the work.
Every student who conscientiously follows the easy exercises outlined in this course is assured of becoming a better Musician in shorter time, with less effort, and a real Musician—not a mere player.
Cordially yours,
HPL:V
Automatic Finger Control