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Grade 5 - Practise Scales

📖 "The scales should be known so well that the student's fingers will fly to the right fingering of any part of any scale instinctively. The trouble with many students is that they attempt difficult problems in what might be termed musical calculus or musical trigonometry without even ever mastering the multiplication table. Scales are musical multiplication tables. … Most pupils look upon scales as a kind of musical gymnasium for developing the muscles. They do that, of course, and there are few technical exercises that are as good; but their great practical value is for training the hand in fingering so that the best fingering in any key becomes automatic. In this way they save an enormous amount of time in later years. They also greatly facilitate sight reading, because the hand seems to lean instinctively to the most logical fingering, to elect without thinking. The study of harmony is also a great time saver in piano playing. Know the chords and know the fingering of all the arpeggios, which is really logical fingering of most of the common chords. Don't pay a teacher a high fee later in your musical life to have him point out something that you should have learned in the musical primary class."
Joseph Lhevinne in Basic Principles of Pianoforte Playing

📖 "Don't neglect the scales and arpeggios, and think that you will make up your marks on the pieces. Everything counts in the total."
Alec Rowley's DON'TS FOR CANDIDATES FOR EXAMINATIONS, in Do's and Don'ts for Musicians. A Handbook for Teachers and Performers

📖 "When I get started at the piano, for the first 10 minutes I play scales, slowly. I have done this all my life. Listen to the sounds you make. The sound of each tone witll generate a response in you. It will give you energy."
Van Cliburn

📖 "Do you ask me how good a player you may become? Then tell me how much you practise the scales."
Carl Czerny

📖 "I consider the practice of scales important not only for the fingers, but also for the discipline of the ear with regard to the feeling of tonality, understanding of intervals, and the comprehension of the tonal compass of the piano."
Josef Hofmann

📖 "Scales should never be dry. If you are not interested in them, work with them until you do become interested in them."
Artus Rubinstein

📖 "I believe this matter of insisting upon a thorough technical knowledge, particularly scale playing, is a very vital one. The mere ability to play a few pieces does not constitute musical proficiency."
Serge Rachmaninov

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