§ TESHNZAL ROURIME I learned scales, arpeggios, etudes and pedaling during my yout in Russia. Byery young person should practice a technical regine daily, and I still work on these things from time to time. I start playing slowly to warm up my muscles. Fifteen minutes later I play the same thinge fast. If I haventt practiced for tuo or three days, I play scales, arpeggios, and chords in every possible way, in a different key each day. For instanee, I play the © major scale in the Russian pattern, the hands one octave apart:twoin parallel motion ascending, two octaves contrary notion ascending and descending, then again two octaves contrary motion out, and back, and lastly two ootaves parallel notion descending. I play slowly (four notes circa M. ii. 80) and then fast (four notes circa M. M. 160). I do the same Russian pattern starting with the hands a major third, a minor sixth, and a najor tenth apart, using the regular scale fingering. With the hands one cctave apart I play broken four-note chords and inversions four octaves up and back (0-B-9-0, B-G-C-8, ete.). I do four-octave arpeggios in the Russian pattern, in root position and the inversions. Titiork on) four-note broken chords (Lomaneeyuh in Russian)--C-E-G-C, B-C-G-E, eto.--four octaves up and back. Lonaneeyuh is a neglected technique. Seethoven uses this form of broken chords frequently in his sonatas and concertos. I play four-octave dominant-seventh arpeggios up and back in parallel motion and also in the Russian pattern, in root position and the inversions, which are difficult. I work on the chromatic scale in the Russian pattern, an octave, third, sixth, and tenth apart, aceenting in groups of six. I play the scale in so-calle double thirds, sixths and octaves and chromatically in major double thirds. Then I take the C scale, using 12=3aHe5 all the way rather than the conventional fingering. Pieces don't always use one fingering. I do the same thing with broken chords, in five-finger position: C-E-G-J-b, E-G-3-E-5, ete. The Chopin Etude Op. 10, No. 1 uses this idea, Thatts my routine.