I love Hanon and it has worked to help me improve at getting more comfortable at the piano. I don''t trust a piano teacher who tells me it is just mindless exercises. Anything can be done mindlessly but when you are mindful of the exercises then you can get some real benefit.

Thanks! This video was really useful!

Many thanks for clarifying the questions l have had God bless you Julianna

Very useful video. I’m a beginner and I’m doing Hannon 1 and 6 plus Schmitt 1 and 2 as a warm up. I’m also using Hannon for scale fingerings. I use Dozen a Day and Czerny too. As I don’t have lessons, a video laying out a structure for which exercises are most beneficial from each book and which scales etc to practice would be very helpful. I use Piano Adventures adult book but my issue is I have grade 6 classical guitar and beginner piano books always assume you know nothing about music reading and theory. I need technique more than anything else at the moment (although reading bass clef is harder). Videos on playing scales, arpeggios etc are very helpful. It’s good to see how your hand moves. Really enjoying your channel. Thank you.

Needed better understanding on how to approach Hanon and exercises in general. I found it very helpful. Thank you!

Excellent, excellent tips. I for one, do like HANON. I set the timer for 10 minutes then go on to my pieces, as you suggest. Love your tips. Learn a lot, and I’ve played for 50+ years! 🎉🎹

Thank you for this information, really helpful!

The most helpful Hanon video on KZfaq I've found so far. Thank you. Subscribed.

Thank you for your advices. This clip answers me many question about Hanon. Your voice and language are very friendly to English foreigner. Thank you from Thailand 🙏🏻

Very helpful. Thank you.

Awesome explanation!

I can't be as strenuous as the book suggests, but I've just used the excercises as sight reading practice, practice either staccato or legato with them, play them slow, play them fast..thing is you can adapt them to get what you want out of them and don't have to stick rigidly to the suggestions in the book

Thank you, love what you do ❤

Extremely helpful video....thanks so much! I suffered from rigid piano tuition as a child and ended up with stiff, sore wrists and a 'boxed-in' musical ability. Fast forward to 74, with time to practice, but sadly, only an electronic keyboard; I bought a Hanon book to try to improve my technique. I really needed some guidance and you have provided it brilliantly and comprehensively. Now I'm inspired to buy a Burgmuller book to give that a go👍.

Thank you so much for all your videos. Absolute beginner here awaiting my first piano! Subscribed!

Many many thanks for discussion

Great tips! Thanks★

Thank you. I am leraning a lot from your lessons

I actually like the Hanon. I am working through the first part, the ascending and descending finger exercises. I take 1 as “exercise of the week” and use it as worming up. I play it a few times up and down, in different rhythms, staccato, legato etc for 10 minutes or so. It has done wonders for the strength of my finger in general and especially for finger 4 and 5. Agree on not playing them for too long in one time because you can feel the muscles of your weaker fingers getting tired. You want to train them, not force them.

Love your videos

This is very helpful…thank you from Canada 🇨🇦

Although I disagree with about half of what.you said I still feel.this is a.very very important video.about hanon. Thank you for this video I will try your advice about taking some exersixes from.section one and three

Great video, very informative. Good comments about the movement of the whole body and the importance of the shoulder. I started piano several months ago as a 65 year old, and am self taught. I am sure the first thing a teacher would say is that I have bad posture and don't use my shoulders correctly. But they can't do anything about it, since I have a FURS syndrome. I literally have two tendons hanging by a thread. But it's been like that for years, and I had to adapt and change my techniques as a Chiropractor. I quit manipulating vertebrae and developed other techniques. Including many for the shoulder and arm. I will have a video out soon that shows my exercises for the low back but also stretches, exercises and self-treatment for the shoulder, arms and hands. Especially useful for full strength in that pesky fifth finger. Stay tuned.

Very informative....thankyou...

C’est génial merciii

I'm 60 now and getting back to practicing after giving it up years back. Was pretty much at near intermediate level and went through Hanon but got bored and tired. I did gain some strength and accuracy but tension also killed my progress. Right now going through the dozen a day to get me back on track.

I started learning piano 6 months ago. The first 2 months I spent 4 hours/day just to practice Hanon. The only way I could do it on daily basis is to turn my favorite shows on, watching the show while I was practicing Hanon exercises. I like Hanon because it’s repeated the same notes within an exercise so I was able to watch TV while practicing. My teacher has assigned me exercises from Czerny op 599 so my time for Hanon is around 20-25 mins/day to warm up my fingers. I enjoyed Hanon (while watching my shows)

I enjoy improvising after various Hannon patterns

Thank you

Wonderfully informative video

Bruv, I've discovered your channel today (new subscriber) and been through some of your videos. I really appreciate your analysis and explanations on the differences between the different book series. I'm spending a lot of time on my Dozen A Day exercises with Hanon as my warm up and I'm taking note of your advice to place more focus on musicality through the practice of pieces. This brings me to my request if you would be so kind: - - - How about uploading one video tutorial per week (or round about) of either the Czerny or Burgmuller pieces so we can track our progress while moving with you for those of us who are 'teaching ourselves?' This would really be appreciated and I'm pretty sure it would increase your subscriber numbers. Hoping to hear from you on this.

Thanks! You have answered the questions I had about Hanon. I am just starting to learn piano, I am 54 and thinking to use one of these technical books. Would you recommend me Czerny instead of Hanon for the technical part of may practice? Or any other specific author?

The only one change my mind completely i was giving my whole practice to hanon and exercises i without caring about pieces I thought exercises are much good to improve my playing i will take care much more about pieces

I am a 64 year old beginner. Play since about 2 years. I start my daily playing first with some of the simple Hanon excercises. 5 or 10 minutes. My expirience is, that when I start with Hanon my fingers are more flexible than when I start playing other pieces. Well, my expirience.

What do you think of Hanon Preliminary Exercises for piano by John Thompson?

very sound appraisal of Hanon. As you say, the key point is don't practice as suggested in the book or great damage could be done!

Es muy importante lo que dice.

I have trouble sight reading the Bass notes. Any idea for me in that area. Thank you Blessings Julianna

I use 1 and 10 to warm up

Hanon helped me get used to the feeling of picking up your fingers without panicking about where your hand should be. If you practice it endlessly it's dumb. You should be using any piano exercise very intentionally. Also I never thought about it making your fingers stronger, it's more about getting your fingers used to moving around the keyboard.

Have you look at Max Cooke tone touch and technique?

What do you think of this fingering for chromatic scales ? Right hand ascending starting on C: 123451234545 and repeat; right hand descending same fingering - if starting on C 1545432154321. Left hand ascending starting on C is 543215432121 repeat; descending (starting on C) 5121234512345 repeat. What I like about it is A) there are only 3 hand positions per octave (2 moves) as compared to anything with a traditional thumb tuck involving at least 4 positions, 3 thumb tucks per octave, if you want to use the same fingering on every octave and not a 2 octave pattern before repeating; B) you can use the same fingering on every octave; C) when striking with a given finger on the left hand there is a single unique corresponding finger in the right hand - for example left thumb is always right pinky. The obvious disadvantage is that you can’t do a legato thumb tuck as with classical fingering. You need to jump the hand instead. Unless I do each way for years I can’t tell which approach is better. I’m very comfortable with the 1234545 fingering in right hand ascending, so I think it’s mostly a question of whether I can eventually get the hand jumps to the new thumb positions to be quick and seamless and not lead to uneven accent. If you think this is a bad idea, what fingering do you use for chromatic scales, or does it vary?

Can you talk about Aflat please.

What is Folk dean ??

I have been playing piano for 7 years but now I go to hanon because their was a year break, but it seems to hampering my dynamics. My playing has become robotic 😭😭😭 should I stop using hanon? I was enjoying it tho, I am doing burgmuller now (and on the first one I realized things about my playing after 1st exercise) I love doing exercises, but I don't under how to proceed my intermediate pain learning. I have completed grade 5 of trinity. Do u have any suggestions? Hanon did improve my sight reading I can play sheet music at a Glance on slower bpm

I am curious that none of my piano teachers have mentioned scales and arpeggios although I have been learning the piano for over three years. They simply put the grade level book before you and you learn yhe keys. So sad. I wish I had you as a teacher.

The best book for beginners is Folk Dean

Its supposed to be used as a warm up.

I've done all 100 of Hanon and Czerny 599. They get hard quite quickly especially if you want to build speed. In hindsight it was totally pointless doing all of Hanon as mentioned. Czerny is better in every way in my view. However I wouldn't rush through these . 15mins max is enough and just go at your own speed. You inevitably find some exercises much more difficult than others e.g thirds I really struggled with. Finally I think it's not really something to worry about. Hardly anyone ever has the will power to get through Hanon .

Another tip is to ignore any tempo marks. Learners should play at a tempo that their level of advancement will allow them. A 54 y.o. beginner will not play as fluidly or dexterously as someone who started at 6. That's just how it is. My advice to students is to play slowly and stop if you are uneven or feel tiredness or tension. Shake your hands out and start again slower. I see students try above their abilities, and play unevenly at breakneck speeds. That defeats the purpose of the exercises and is completely pointless.

Der Referent hat nichts von Hanon verstanden. Jede Übung enthält auch eine musikalische Komponente. Dies braucht aber einen umsichtigen. Erfahrenen Lehrer.

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