Rossini liked to write in bed. So did our dearly beloved humorist, Mark Twain. And so it goes. Funny in one way, and yet, not funny at all. These people are merely favoring the peculiarities of their own minds.
It is hard, especially hard for some people, to take the mind off from one subject and put it on another. Unless one is easily able to concentrate on the task at hand, the mind is bound to wander back to the thing we were thinking of previously.
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
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NEW YORK CITY
Departmental Memo.