Students begin looking forward to working on the etudes as their commitment increases, and they know the etudes are difficult. Yet when they get into them, the degree and extent of the difficulty sometimes comes as a surprise. Nothing in the literature seems to offer such a challenge in so little space. The etudes seem so different from the etudes of Duport, 6 Franchomme, 7 or Grützmacher, 8 that students have perhaps already studied. And, they are