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An Encyclopedia of the Violin, 1925
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1CHAPTER X
2HOW TO PRACTICE
4The ability to practice without loss of valuable time is an art in itself. The teacher should indicate the course to be pursued, and should insist on being implicitly obeyed with regard to all that touches on the proper care taken of the pupil's instrument.
6Patience is the secret of all real progress. One should learn how to practice very slowly, and reach the greatest difficulties by a process of natural progression.
8The following examples give an analysis of certain difficulties; how they are to be studied and how overcome by means of a species of musical homeopathy:
10In the Mendelssohn Concerto, for example, the original passage is written as indicated but may be practiced to advantage in all of the four ways indicated:
12Mendelssohn Concerto
13ORIGINAL
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