W. S. B. Mathews · section 13 of 24

Study in Broken Chords

To be practiced in the following different ways: (a) Right hand playing the chords, all the notes together, the chords following at the rate of one a second. (b) Right hand playing the broken chords as written, but not delaying for the other hand; (c) Left hand playing its chords; (d) Left hand playing the broken chords, but not de-

laying between chords; (e) Both hands together playing the chords all together, six notes in one solid chord in each measure; (f) Finally, play as written. The object of these different methods of practice is to give the hands a better facility in these forms which occupy so large a place in all music in the key of C.