Fold your hands together interlaced. Hold them together tightly. Now against muscular resistance, slowly open the palms and the base of the wrist and as slowly close them together again. Repeat this exercise ten times.
FIRST EXAMINATION
1. What time do you practice AUTOMATIC FINGER CONTROL each day? 2. How many times have you missed your practice periods during this first six weeks? 3. Do Exercise No. 1 twenty times with the left hand. Do the muscles between the wrist and elbow feel tired? 4. Take Exercise No. 12 first with the left hand and then with the right. Which muscles feel tired from this? 5. What marked improvement have you already noted from practicing AUTOMATIC FINGER CONTROL?
SECOND EXAMINATION
1. Take Exercise 14. How far apart can you separate the base of the palms without separating the fingers? 2. Which muscles does Exercise 17 tire? 3. Which finger of which hand feels most tired after Exercise 18? 4. Do Exercise 18. How high can you raise the ring fingers? 5. In which muscles have you noted greatest improvement so far?
THIRD EXAMINATION
1. Can you do Exercise 25 without tiring any muscles? If not, which? 2. Do you perform Exercise 30 quickly or slowly? 3. What time each day do you practice AUTOMATIC FINGER CONTROL? 4. How many days have you gone without practicing at all? 5. Just how does having stronger, more supple fingers help you?
FOURTH EXAMINATION
1. Which exercise of this course did you find most difficult? 2. Do you still have trouble with any exercises? Which? 3. Are you able to master your lessons at the instrument more rapidly now than when you took up AUTOMATIC FINGER CONTROL? 4. Take Exercise 16 with muscle resistance, ten times instead of five. Can you do it equally well with each finger? 5. Write me all of the ways in which AUTOMATIC FINGER CONTROL has helped to make a good player of you in shorter time and with less practice at the instrument.