Can you read, by the way?
Have a try." Falbe got down a volume of Bach and opened it at random.
"There," he said, "begin at the top of the page." "But I can't," said Michael.

"I shall have to spell it out." "That's just what you mustn't do.

Go ahead, and don't pause till you get to the bottom of the page.

Count; start each bar when it comes to its turn, and play as many notes as you can in it." This was a dismal experience.

Michael hitherto had gone on the painstaking and thorough plan of spelling out his notes with laborious care.