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Grade 7 - Practise Scales

📖 THE OLD THAT IS EVER NEW 
“I have seen many ways and means tried out. Some seem like an attempt to save time at the expense of thoroughness. Furthermore, the means which have produced the great pianists of the past are likely to differ but little from those which will produce the pianists of the future. The ultra-modern teacher who is inclined to think scales old-fashioned should go to hear de Pachmann, who practices scales every day. De Pachmann, who has been a virtuoso for a great many years, still finds daily practice necessary, and, in addition to scales, he plays a great deal of Bach. Today his technic is more powerful and more comprehensive than ever, and he attributes it in a large measure to the simplest of means."
Wilhelm Backhaus in James Francis Cooke's Great Pianists on Piano 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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