This article is based on material from a past online workshop on Jacques Lancelot's 21 Etudes, especially No. 7 and No. 9. In the workshop, we looked at how to read information from the score and connect it to actual playing: key signatures, dynamics, expression markings, rhythm patterns, phrase shape, and musical form. This article focuses on one small but important example from No. 7: the F♯ in measure 3. At first, this may seem like a simple fingering question. But in etud