HajjMusic yes! This actually very important but so normal to me that I forgot to mention it in the video... it is all about doing the same movements again and again using different keys but the same fingering. Even though you will not use this fingering for music pieces it is a very good exercise because you will feel which position your hands and fingers like more and which positions are a little bit tricky.
I started piano when I retired but daily practising helped me to achieve my goals into a voyage of classic music sheets.Just find out your tutorials which gave me lots of useful fingering tips.
Many pianists despise Hanon but the truth is that it is super effective and your fingers then fly over the keyboard, and they incredibly improve your technique with very simple exercises.
@@aBachwardsfellow If you are a beginner, and have not developed finger and hand independence yet, imo it's extremly helpful to do these or other excercises with highly raised fingers slowly..
@@tomt3956 I agree - the KEY word being *slowly* - meaning (for me) MM = 40 - 80 for *eighth* notes (20 - 40 for 1/4 notes) AND for no more than 5 minutes at a time AND playing without tension AND stopping immediately and resting if there's any tension (i.e. do not practice tension, do not learn tension) . Adding Taubman's rotation may be helpful. For developing facility at MM 40+ for quarter notes, lifting the fingers should be abandoned altogether and a close (musical) touch should be cultivated - completely devoid of tension in the upper muscles (extensors) of the forearm. None of this high-finger machine-gun-like slamming of the keys through the bottom of the keybed at MM = 160 - it sounds and looks like crap! There are other ways to develop strength and independence - such as holding all 5 keys down and playing patterns of single and double notes - for about 2 minutes max (why spend 5 minutes - much less hours developing something that can be done in 2 minutes - right?)
@@floriankurz4169 beginners can't do Brahms or Dohnanyi... but Cortot (and maybe Behringer) is a great alternative to Hanon when dealing with total beginners and to build a solid foundation on technique.
Finally a video that actually explains *how* it's best to use Hanon exercises. Perfect! Play every key, don't play too fast, use different rhythms, different phrasing and always ensure hands are relaxed. While you're still mastering the exercises, pay special attention that each note is clear and even sounding. The only thing I can add is that I also use it to exercise polyrhythms (lh 3-5, rh 4-4, so you get 3 over 4 and 5 over 4 within the 8 notes, and other such variants).
I don't know what's with you, but when I accidentally click one of your vids, you got me hooked for the upcoming 3 to 4 vids straight, you're always sophisticated whenever you present yourself
This technique routine is not only about warming up but also building up a good technique over a long term independently from which repertoire you are practising at the moment. Great Video, Annique!
I'm realizing now how important my Hanon and Czerny exercises are.I don't always want to start with them but I feel better when I do. I generally play through 6-10 Hanon then do 10-16 Czerny. Improvement is slow but sure.
This so important. I seriously hurt a ligament in my right hand due to not warming up before a performance. That put me out of action for 2 months. I can't even play a C major tonic triad without feeling as if my right hand is being ripped apart.
I like Hanon, despite the depricarions of many as being ousated. I switch to Czerny school of velocity because of the type of exercises absent in Hanon, but the first 35 exercises are just a easy and fun way to warm up.
I am new to piano am always interested in hand excercises. Coming from a Bagpipe background, I can easily appreciate the value of definitive structured articulated scale exercises. Thank you for your wonderful work!
Warming up and focusing on technique instead of performance rings so true to me as a keen runner. Most of my training is not performance level and it’s essential for me to warm up as well. Your hair looked amazing in this video. Clearly you were having a good/great day. 😍
Thank you for sharing this useful method. I tried it out, and my hand really feels relaxed. I never did any warmup, and I never heard of these excersizes, despite graduating from a renown Music Academy, and I had to stop working for half a year because of straining my hand. It would be essential to teach this, to prevent a lot of self-harm.
One thing I like to play when warming up is the E->D#->C#->B->E->D#->C#->B etc. octave part of Chopin’s Heroic Polonaise Op. 53. You can play it with either hand or both hands at the same time. It requires power, speed and accuracy. Some people like to warm up with easy stuff but this polonaise passage gets my mojo going.
Annique! I just discovered your channel and I couldn’t be more grateful. You are so full of light, grace, and of course incredible talent!! Thanks for the practice tips! 💕 you’re officially added to my goals list
THANK YOU for your thoughts on warming up and how vital it is to our music practice!! Love your content and teaching style. Looking forward to exploring your channel!
My teacher makes me play the first 16 one after the other 3 times every beginning of lessons. It’s been a while I haven’t played and I can’t even play the first 5....... Gotta go practice ！
Great work and explanation !! For my warm up I use to choose one exercise from hanon 1-20 and try it in every major and minor scale. You can try it if you haven't it s a bit difficult and tricky 😁
Hi thank you so mach i play piano too and i always just practice without any warm up so now I watch your video I decided to warm up before any practice and thanks for your suggestion to how warm up 💜🙏🏻
I always wonder why no one talks about the fact that in a lot of the Hanon exercises the descending part is not exactly copied mirror-inverted in relation to the ascending part. It starts already with exercise no. 2: the second note of the descending part should be an 'e' instead of a 'd', otherwise you don't have the same hand pattern for both hands.
(you can improve the video quality in your videos (getting rid off the horizontal lines) recording in a progresive video format, avoiding interlaced modes, or activating de-interlace when editting)
Agustín Barrios actually I don’t do any stretching exercises and I am not sure if this is so good for the hands and fingers... but I am really not sure at this point, I just think it is not necessary to stretch my hands as I am not stretching them while playing or at least not that extreme. In the end I want to play with a relaxed hand and relaxed fingers. Stretching the hands always means tension in the hands to me and this is why I don’t do this. But again- this is just my point of view, if you feel good with it and it helps you to warm up and get ready this is totally ok!😊 maybe I am also just thinking of too extreme stretching exercises- if you have one that you can recommend I will be happy if you tell me so I can try it! 😊
@@heartofthekeys Personally I do streching exercises once i finish the practice session. Just because I had tendonitis a few years ago and it took me a while to be able to play de piano again 🙁. All the exercises were given to me by a physiatrist and as you say is important not to create more tension on thoses muscles. In the end I think the important thing is to listen your body and take a good care of it. Thank for sharing your thoughts. 😊
@@heartofthekeys What I learned during my time doing martial arts (and also as @Agustin Barrios stated correctly) stretching should always come last. Not after warm-up, but after the entire practice session. Think of your muscles after practice as if they were a woolen sweater after a ride in the washing machine on a slightly too warm program. It's all crumbled, stiff and in the worst case even more felt than knit. In order to "unfelt" your muscles you stretch them, just like you should always pull your sweater into shape and let them dry while lying flat. And then you wait, i.e. no overusing your muscles. Stretching makes your muscles go into relax mode. Using them overexcessively after a stretching session can be just as harmful as not warming up. I'm no specialists though and in music (I played the violin) I never got to a point where I had to worry about damaging my muscles because I didn't warm up before practicing 🙈😅. But from what I know from sports you should give stretching after practice a try. Would be interesting to see, whether you feel a positive impact. If not overdone, it at least shouldn't have a negative one.
Can you please do a video on seat height and distance and posture? Most teachers teach either a) the top of forearm should be level or sloping down slightly b) the elbow bone should be level with the bottom of a depressed key c) elbow bone level with top of white keys. Despite playing for over 30 years, Ive recently been over activating my right forearm flexors/tendons despite practicing slow, not over curling the fingers nor key bedding. I’m currently retraining in the Taubman approach to try and resolve it and sitting so my forearm bone is approx horizontal.
Nice presentation of a well controlled and relaxed practice. It would be extra helpful to clarify in comment the different rhythms and touch variations :)
Markus nothing 😅 I think after a while your body and fingers get so used to these exercises that it is ok to not pay that much attention through the whole time you are warming up... but of course only if you do the exercises correctly 😜
@@heartofthekeys That sounds interesting! I heard that Clara Schumann was even reading books while doing finger excercises on the piano! Myself, I always found it difficult not to learn wrong stuff like this...
Besides Hanon, I also use a couple other books: Brahms 51 Exercises, Joseffy School of advance piano playing. I also play scales 4 octaves up & down, chromatically (c major, c harmonic minor, d-flat major, c-sharp harmonic minor etc.)...but play the entire cycle completely and strictly using the fingering for C major throughout. Trust me, that's a very "humbling" exercise.
@@floriankurz4169 Yep, got his stuff too. His Concert Etudes are ridiculous. Cortot's technique book is also useful. There's a lot of neat books out there on technique.
Hi Annique, Can one warmup using cadenzas from one's repertoire? Seems it should make more logic warming up with difficult passages you will actually play thereby perfecting them. What are your thoughts/experiences on this approach?
I think this is putting you at risk for injury; the idea is you need to prepare your body to be ready to play difficult things before you actually play them. Imagine a sprinter warming up with full effort sprints; they would be both slower and also putting themself at risk for injury.
Annique - thank HEAVENS you're using a close touch technic and NOT LIFTING your fingers! I wish that you would point this out and emphasize it to your viewers. Playing Hanon with lifting the fingers is very bad technic and can cause injuries. I also use and recommend a limited amount of Hanon similar to what you are using (the first 20 are enough) and am glad to see that your are playing sensibly with a good technic and at moderate speeds for warm-ups as opposed to playing too fast and causing tension and injuries! I very much enjoyed the variety of rhythms, articulations, and combinations - some of which I look forward to trying. For additional variety, I also play them in 10ths and 6ths, which seems to add a bit of fluidity since the hands are on different notes. They're also more "musical" that way - almost sound pretty! :-) Sometimes I like to combine 2 different patterns in alternating measures. For example, Hanon #1 and Hanon #5 - play one measure of #1, step up to the next note and play one measure of #5, step up to the next note and play one measure of #1, etc. I have not tried many other combinations at this point - For just a bit more of a workout try playing them in the harmonic minor keys - this gives a little extra stretch and micro-movement warm-up with some of the intervals created between the lowered 6th and raised 7th of the harmonic scale. Playing these in 10ths and 6ths can become quite an adventure - for example F-sharp harmonic minor in 10ths or 6ths - !
You might as well make it a little longer, if you have time and motivation of course, I think It is better to practice a little every day, than a lot just one or two days of the week
(here from the La Campanella challenge) Hi Annique, this is great! Woud like to ask, how did you come up with the different rhythm variations? And do you use the same rhythm variations for all the Hanon exercises, or are there specific rhythm variations for the different exercises?
I am using the same rhythms for all exercises. Actually Hanon wrote these rhythms for the exercises but I don’t know why they don’t appear in the book 🤷🏻♀️ so my professor gave them to me:)
I am not sure about the need for Hanon when the weather is warm except in cold winter then certainly Hanon is a good idea to warm up hands and fingers to avoid injury. At other times practicing the pieces themselves will be enough warm up and not a waste of time. It seem you only warm up to avoid injury, or is it also for technique improvement that supports learning new pieces ?
I try and get my students to start off Hanon with "high" fingers and non-legato, not staccato though. Then we go for fast and furious. For me it helped to get rid of finger slips. Love your videos.
- hopefully you get them the heck away from those *wretched* *injury-generating* *ugly* *high* fingers into a *genuine* - *RELAXED* - technic (a close touch such as she is using) before sending them into fast and furious tendinitis hell.
@@aBachwardsfellow Yes. I've spent years unlearning "striking the keys", high fingers, playing through tension hoping it will go away, etc. Essentially ruined my career. I can play with unobstructed coordination now but the old neurological programming is very hard to undo and returns when other stressing factors are presented (I need to play louder, the bass player is playing a different song, etc).
@@drintro Are you playing an acoustic piano with a "real" action - or other keyboard/organ? Try practicing on an acoustic instrument with the fingers relaxed and touching the keys - throw the weight from your wrist with a snap and catch/impel it into the keys - starting pianissimo/slowly and working up to forte/moderato - using hanon, scales, arpeggios, chords, etc. The fingers should be completely relaxed except for that momentary "catch" instant. Intentionally play other music loudly to create stress and practice playing through it / ignoring while not switching technic. For an interesting comparison - compare Virgil Fox's (horrific!) technic for the Gigue Fugue (in your "workout 2" playlist) with Rob Stefanussen's (absolutely gorgeous) technic for the same piece - exemeplary of the close touch - the notes are just falling out of his hands ruclips.net/video/6ncVblmduSQ/видео.html&ab_channel=RobStefanussen Also this one - Rob's close touch is almost spooky it's so quiet - ruclips.net/video/rSFRNi9Nois/видео.html&ab_channel=RobStefanussen
Ich spiele auch ab und zu Hanon, aber manchmal ist es für mich langweilig. Dann mache ich "warm up" mit dem Stück, das ich lerne indem ich es langsam spiele. Ich weiss nicht, ob es gut oder schlecht ist aber als Abwechslung zu Hanon geht auch...
RB Melk Great video, thank you! Do you ever use Plaidy’s exercises? If so, do you find them useful? I use his exercises for scales in thirds and sixths, but I cannot find other pianists who use his exercises, and I am not completely confident that I am doing them correctly. The stretch in my hands (especially now that I am getting old - 47) feels good, particularly when practicing the sixth scales.. Would you be willing to make a video demonstrating Plaidy’s exercises or at least some strategies for playing scales in thirds and sixths?
Really, I don't warm up but start in the morning session with hanon, grand galop chromatic- Liszt, op 53 chopin, gammes with 2d or 3d finger on black notes, then chopin gamme, then 1234, then Czerny octaves or clementi or kessler, then arpèges with Brahms and Rachmaninoff (I used to warm up with Rachmaninoff 3-2) ; this is technical In the evening session, no warm up! (If I am invited at a dinner, I must be able to play upon request without warming up) but repertoire.
Thanx for outstanding tips! But about Hanon: what's the best schedule for the exercices? Day 1 - nr 1 in all keys; day 2 -nr 2 etc. Or would you advice different? What's your program?
Hi Annique, your videos are really interesting and enlightening! I usually do some exercises from Hanon but I’ve never thought about different rithms. I’ll certainly try them in my piano session today. Do you know Pichna’s technique exercises? My professor made me buy the book few weeks ago and some exercises are really tough and “hand-breaking” 🥵
Hanon is a great method WHEN you know what doing and can be improved if you're able to improvise or adapt it - a great training (to both hands and ears) is to play a random exercise not in unisons, but in thirds and sixths.
Thank you so much for the fingering exercise tips as no one has been able to explain it so well as you have just shown.It is my biggest problem,hopefully not now.
![Chopin's Favourite WARM-UP Exercise [BEGINNER to ADVANCED]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vfPL5oQl6dk/mqdefault.jpg)
Do you use the same fingering for every key?
HajjMusic yes! This actually very important but so normal to me that I forgot to mention it in the video... it is all about doing the same movements again and again using different keys but the same fingering. Even though you will not use this fingering for music pieces it is a very good exercise because you will feel which position your hands and fingers like more and which positions are a little bit tricky.
Heart of the Keys thank you! That’s awesome
I started piano when I retired but daily practising helped me to achieve my goals into a voyage of classic music sheets.Just find out your tutorials which gave me lots of useful fingering tips.
@@leylahim2977 🎶🎶
Thank you very much for sharing this . I hope Czerny exceesises could work, too... Sending Lots of health and optimism :-)
Many pianists despise Hanon but the truth is that it is super effective and your fingers then fly over the keyboard, and they incredibly improve your technique with very simple exercises.
- **** IF **** practiced using a healthy technique - such as she is using -
*NOT* lifting the fingers high - NO, NO, *NO!*
@@aBachwardsfellow If you are a beginner, and have not developed finger and hand independence yet, imo it's extremly helpful to do these or other excercises with highly raised fingers slowly..
@@tomt3956 I agree - the KEY word being *slowly* - meaning (for me) MM = 40 - 80 for *eighth* notes (20 - 40 for 1/4 notes) AND for no more than 5 minutes at a time AND playing without tension AND stopping immediately and resting if there's any tension (i.e. do not practice tension, do not learn tension) . Adding Taubman's rotation may be helpful. For developing facility at MM 40+ for quarter notes, lifting the fingers should be abandoned altogether and a close (musical) touch should be cultivated - completely devoid of tension in the upper muscles (extensors) of the forearm. None of this high-finger machine-gun-like slamming of the keys through the bottom of the keybed at MM = 160 - it sounds and looks like crap!
There are other ways to develop strength and independence - such as holding all 5 keys down and playing patterns of single and double notes - for about 2 minutes max (why spend 5 minutes - much less hours developing something that can be done in 2 minutes - right?)
HANON, even in rhythms, is brainless. Better use Dohnanyi or Brahms 51 exercises.
@@floriankurz4169 beginners can't do Brahms or Dohnanyi... but Cortot (and maybe Behringer) is a great alternative to Hanon when dealing with total beginners and to build a solid foundation on technique.
That sheet music shelf behind you looks so interesting - could you perhaps do a video where you go through your sheet music collection.
Please! :)
Looks like she has manga lmqo
Finally a video that actually explains *how* it's best to use Hanon exercises. Perfect! Play every key, don't play too fast, use different rhythms, different phrasing and always ensure hands are relaxed. While you're still mastering the exercises, pay special attention that each note is clear and even sounding.
The only thing I can add is that I also use it to exercise polyrhythms (lh 3-5, rh 4-4, so you get 3 over 4 and 5 over 4 within the 8 notes, and other such variants).
I don't know what's with you, but when I accidentally click one of your vids, you got me hooked for the upcoming 3 to 4 vids straight, you're always sophisticated whenever you present yourself
She, WHERING SLIPPERS, can make hanon sound better than me playing my best piece in my best day... Thanks for showing us the way. This is the way!
This technique routine is not only about warming up but also building up a good technique over a long term independently from which repertoire you are practising at the moment. Great Video, Annique!
Your piano sounds so good specially the non legato part ( yes i came here from la campanella challenge video)
Fwiw she has a Yamaha C2
I guess its because she plays well :D
"Focussing my body,
Create the rhythm through your body,
Impulse from stomach and
Relax."
Great.
Really helpful for me.
I found that playing the Hanon exercises staccato helped me a lot. Right from the first exercise. It helped get the arm weight action into my legato.
Same with me.
It makes me think to ballet dancers, doing their bar exercices every morning. It is the same for pianists :)
I'm realizing now how important my Hanon and Czerny exercises are.I don't always want to start with them but I feel better when I do. I generally play through 6-10 Hanon then do 10-16 Czerny.
Improvement is slow but sure.
This so important. I seriously hurt a ligament in my right hand due to not warming up before a performance. That put me out of action for 2 months. I can't even play a C major tonic triad without feeling as if my right hand is being ripped apart.
I like Hanon, despite the depricarions of many as being ousated. I switch to Czerny school of velocity because of the type of exercises absent in Hanon, but the first 35 exercises are just a easy and fun way to warm up.
I am new to piano am always interested in hand excercises. Coming from a Bagpipe background, I can easily appreciate the value of definitive structured articulated scale exercises. Thank you for your wonderful work!
You made me appreciate the benefit of Warming Up. I usually don't but will begin to do it. thanks.
Omg I've been stabbing staccato keys for years. The jumping off the note advice is gold for me!
You are the piano teacher I've never had. Thank you.
Warming up and focusing on technique instead of performance rings so true to me as a keen runner. Most of my training is not performance level and it’s essential for me to warm up as well.
Your hair looked amazing in this video. Clearly you were having a good/great day. 😍
Thank you for sharing this useful method. I tried it out, and my hand really feels relaxed. I never did any warmup, and I never heard of these excersizes, despite graduating from a renown Music Academy, and I had to stop working for half a year because of straining my hand. It would be essential to teach this, to prevent a lot of self-harm.
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Soooo satisfying watching you do all of these rhythms!
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One thing I like to play when warming up is the E->D#->C#->B->E->D#->C#->B etc. octave part of Chopin’s Heroic Polonaise Op. 53. You can play it with either hand or both hands at the same time. It requires power, speed and accuracy. Some people like to warm up with easy stuff but this polonaise passage gets my mojo going.
You are great, young lady! Besides being a great musician, you are a great teacher! Greetings from Brazil!
Annique! I just discovered your channel and I couldn’t be more grateful. You are so full of light, grace, and of course incredible talent!! Thanks for the practice tips! 💕 you’re officially added to my goals list
Very useful video! Could you please do a video explaining the rythms you use for this exercise? Thank you 😊
i luv the rhythmic practicees!!!❤❤❤
THANK YOU for your thoughts on warming up and how vital it is to our music practice!! Love your content and teaching style. Looking forward to exploring your channel!
My teacher makes me play the first 16 one after the other 3 times every beginning of lessons.
It’s been a while I haven’t played and I can’t even play the first 5.......
Gotta go practice ！
You’ve got me hooked. I’ve learnt something from every one of your videos. That is an achievement 🙂
Absolutely brilliant warm up advice!
Great work and explanation !! For my warm up I use to choose one exercise from hanon 1-20 and try it in every major and minor scale. You can try it if you haven't it s a bit difficult and tricky 😁
your videos are great, having the additional captions on screen is really helpful as well
Thank you for this great lesson, I often forget to warm up and that makes my Hands tensioned and unready to play light and free
Wishing you all the very best and thank you for all the time you take to share your process. Stay safe. 🤗🙏🏼🎹 Angelo
Hi thank you so mach i play piano too and i always just practice without any warm up so now I watch your video I decided to warm up before any practice and thanks for your suggestion to how warm up 💜🙏🏻
Hanons help a lot with fluidity in the fingers!
I also use Hanon as warm up, but i will do them in B major, D-b major, F# minor and E-b minor.
I always wonder why no one talks about the fact that in a lot of the Hanon exercises the descending part is not exactly copied mirror-inverted in relation to the ascending part. It starts already with exercise no. 2: the second note of the descending part should be an 'e' instead of a 'd', otherwise you don't have the same hand pattern for both hands.
(you can improve the video quality in your videos (getting rid off the horizontal lines) recording in a progresive video format, avoiding interlaced modes, or activating de-interlace when editting)
Super important to warm up and also to cool down and strech after practicing. Do you have a streching routine?.
Thanks for sharing this things.
Agustín Barrios actually I don’t do any stretching exercises and I am not sure if this is so good for the hands and fingers... but I am really not sure at this point, I just think it is not necessary to stretch my hands as I am not stretching them while playing or at least not that extreme. In the end I want to play with a relaxed hand and relaxed fingers. Stretching the hands always means tension in the hands to me and this is why I don’t do this. But again- this is just my point of view, if you feel good with it and it helps you to warm up and get ready this is totally ok!😊 maybe I am also just thinking of too extreme stretching exercises- if you have one that you can recommend I will be happy if you tell me so I can try it! 😊
@@heartofthekeys Personally I do streching exercises once i finish the practice session. Just because I had tendonitis a few years ago and it took me a while to be able to play de piano again 🙁. All the exercises were given to me by a physiatrist and as you say is important not to create more tension on thoses muscles.
In the end I think the important thing is to listen your body and take a good care of it.
Thank for sharing your thoughts. 😊
@@heartofthekeys
What I learned during my time doing martial arts (and also as @Agustin Barrios stated correctly) stretching should always come last. Not after warm-up, but after the entire practice session. Think of your muscles after practice as if they were a woolen sweater after a ride in the washing machine on a slightly too warm program. It's all crumbled, stiff and in the worst case even more felt than knit. In order to "unfelt" your muscles you stretch them, just like you should always pull your sweater into shape and let them dry while lying flat. And then you wait, i.e. no overusing your muscles. Stretching makes your muscles go into relax mode. Using them overexcessively after a stretching session can be just as harmful as not warming up.
I'm no specialists though and in music (I played the violin) I never got to a point where I had to worry about damaging my muscles because I didn't warm up before practicing 🙈😅. But from what I know from sports you should give stretching after practice a try.
Would be interesting to see, whether you feel a positive impact. If not overdone, it at least shouldn't have a negative one.
Can't way to get a properer piano. I'm learning so much more about piano thanks to you.
This adds spice to Hanon! Thank you!
Muito bom. Eu muitas vezes sinto dores no meu pulso principalmente no esquerdo porque não aqueço antes de começar. Vou começar a fazer isso.
The video on Hanon was very helpful, things my teacher never mentioned...that was 40years ago.
I also love to play bach inventions to warm up
Thanks
Can you please do a video on seat height and distance and posture? Most teachers teach either a) the top of forearm should be level or sloping down slightly b) the elbow bone should be level with the bottom of a depressed key c) elbow bone level with top of white keys.
Despite playing for over 30 years, Ive recently been over activating my right forearm flexors/tendons despite practicing slow, not over curling the fingers nor key bedding. I’m currently retraining in the Taubman approach to try and resolve it and sitting so my forearm bone is approx horizontal.
Nice presentation of a well controlled and relaxed practice. It would be extra helpful to clarify in comment the different rhythms and touch variations :)
You said there is no music in these exercises but yet they still sound better than half of today's music 😁
Yup better than all that mainstream bs
- im 14 and this is deep
OH yeah! Nothing gets my blood pumping like a chromatic ascent repeated for 20 minutes straight!
Facts
good exercises to warm up, in ricordi's edition (page 42) I found the rhythms, what a great help
Thanks I was looking for this!
Where can I find it???
Johann Pachelbel's daily warm up routine?
The HANON in D! ;-)
Hi annique, can you make a video on wrist/arm movement, or how to release tension in our arm/wrist?
J adore votre façon de faire comprendre comment absorber l intuition qui est en nous le piano je t❤️
This is the video I needed to watch, you are wonderful! I use the Hanon exercises and I warm up with them. Thank you.
I like to play piano every day ❤-Chopin❤
Great explanations!! What do you do to prevent mind wandering during these lengthy warm-ups?
Markus nothing 😅 I think after a while your body and fingers get so used to these exercises that it is ok to not pay that much attention through the whole time you are warming up... but of course only if you do the exercises correctly 😜
@@heartofthekeys That sounds interesting! I heard that Clara Schumann was even reading books while doing finger excercises on the piano! Myself, I always found it difficult not to learn wrong stuff like this...
@@markus7894 I often watch TV while practicing. Very effective. Let the body do the work.
Your voice is perfect!
Besides Hanon, I also use a couple other books: Brahms 51 Exercises, Joseffy School of advance piano playing. I also play scales 4 octaves up & down, chromatically (c major, c harmonic minor, d-flat major, c-sharp harmonic minor etc.)...but play the entire cycle completely and strictly using the fingering for C major throughout. Trust me, that's a very "humbling" exercise.
Very good. Check Dohnanyi and kick HANON.
@@floriankurz4169 Yep, got his stuff too. His Concert Etudes are ridiculous. Cortot's technique book is also useful. There's a lot of neat books out there on technique.
Hi Annique,
Can one warmup using cadenzas from one's repertoire? Seems it should make more logic warming up with difficult passages you will actually play thereby perfecting them. What are your thoughts/experiences on this approach?
I think this is putting you at risk for injury; the idea is you need to prepare your body to be ready to play difficult things before you actually play them. Imagine a sprinter warming up with full effort sprints; they would be both slower and also putting themself at risk for injury.
Annique - thank HEAVENS you're using a close touch technic and NOT LIFTING your fingers!
I wish that you would point this out and emphasize it to your viewers. Playing Hanon with lifting the fingers is very bad technic and can cause injuries.
I also use and recommend a limited amount of Hanon similar to what you are using (the first 20 are enough) and am glad to see that your are playing sensibly with a good technic and at moderate speeds for warm-ups as opposed to playing too fast and causing tension and injuries!
I very much enjoyed the variety of rhythms, articulations, and combinations - some of which I look forward to trying.
For additional variety, I also play them in 10ths and 6ths, which seems to add a bit of fluidity since the hands are on different notes. They're also more "musical" that way - almost sound pretty! :-)
Sometimes I like to combine 2 different patterns in alternating measures. For example, Hanon #1 and Hanon #5 - play one measure of #1, step up to the next note and play one measure of #5, step up to the next note and play one measure of #1, etc. I have not tried many other combinations at this point -
For just a bit more of a workout try playing them in the harmonic minor keys - this gives a little extra stretch and micro-movement warm-up with some of the intervals created between the lowered 6th and raised 7th of the harmonic scale. Playing these in 10ths and 6ths can become quite an adventure - for example F-sharp harmonic minor in 10ths or 6ths - !
Thank you for the tips and daily warm-up routine.
your warmup routine is wilder than my actual playing, I think I can just skip it then and do some hand and finger warmup without piano keys 😅
I love watching your videos just for relaxation and inspiration 🤭🤭 I'm just a piano beginner...
Most times 20mins is my entire session, not just warm-up 😳
You might as well make it a little longer, if you have time and motivation of course, I think It is better to practice a little every day, than a lot just one or two days of the week
@@genarosainz9901 Every day mate. I try to do a minimum of 10 minutes. But on a good day can go over an hour.
I had a jazz teacher have me practice them but swinging the rhythm. Also had each one in all 12 keys😅
You are amazing, greetings from México
I love your choice of footwear! ;-) That alone is cause to thumbs up and subscribe.
Very nice video , thank you for sharing this 🌿
Cool, thanks! By the way, I like your slippers😉
beautiful
(here from the La Campanella challenge)
Hi Annique, this is great! Woud like to ask, how did you come up with the different rhythm variations? And do you use the same rhythm variations for all the Hanon exercises, or are there specific rhythm variations for the different exercises?
I am using the same rhythms for all exercises. Actually Hanon wrote these rhythms for the exercises but I don’t know why they don’t appear in the book 🤷🏻♀️ so my professor gave them to me:)
@@heartofthekeys thanks for sharing! I'm gonna (try to) annonate the rhythms by ear now! haha!
Hi, How do you practice speed? Don't you do scales during your warm-up ? Thanks
🥰Thank you for this teaching, it is very helpful.
Soon i will have my piano to then i can practice.
Greeting from Netherland.
B. Mars ".... cause you are amazing, just the way you are...."
I enjoy very much your lessons. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I am not sure about the need for Hanon when the weather is warm except in cold winter then certainly Hanon is a good idea to warm up hands and fingers to avoid injury. At other times practicing the pieces themselves will be enough warm up and not a waste of time. It seem you only warm up to avoid injury, or is it also for technique improvement that supports learning new pieces ?
Beautiful dress perfect with your style.
Hannon Rules and Rocks !!!!
I love your rhythm ideas 💡 😍 💙 ❤ 💕.
thanks for that video!
you are so beautiful in that dress. I am living in UK. Welcome to London.💐
I try and get my students to start off Hanon with "high" fingers and non-legato, not staccato though. Then we go for fast and furious. For me it helped to get rid of finger slips. Love your videos.
- hopefully you get them the heck away from those *wretched* *injury-generating* *ugly* *high* fingers into a *genuine* - *RELAXED* - technic (a close touch such as she is using) before sending them into fast and furious tendinitis hell.
@@aBachwardsfellow Yes. I've spent years unlearning "striking the keys", high fingers, playing through tension hoping it will go away, etc. Essentially ruined my career. I can play with unobstructed coordination now but the old neurological programming is very hard to undo and returns when other stressing factors are presented (I need to play louder, the bass player is playing a different song, etc).
@@drintro Are you playing an acoustic piano with a "real" action - or other keyboard/organ? Try practicing on an acoustic instrument with the fingers relaxed and touching the keys - throw the weight from your wrist with a snap and catch/impel it into the keys - starting pianissimo/slowly and working up to forte/moderato - using hanon, scales, arpeggios, chords, etc. The fingers should be completely relaxed except for that momentary "catch" instant. Intentionally play other music loudly to create stress and practice playing through it / ignoring while not switching technic.
For an interesting comparison - compare Virgil Fox's (horrific!) technic for the Gigue Fugue (in your "workout 2" playlist) with Rob Stefanussen's (absolutely gorgeous) technic for the same piece - exemeplary of the close touch - the notes are just falling out of his hands ruclips.net/video/6ncVblmduSQ/видео.html&ab_channel=RobStefanussen
Also this one - Rob's close touch is almost spooky it's so quiet -
ruclips.net/video/rSFRNi9Nois/видео.html&ab_channel=RobStefanussen
Love Hanon. My students hate how much I love Hanon.
Na, richtig, so SUPER Annique!
Ich spiele auch ab und zu Hanon, aber manchmal ist es für mich langweilig. Dann mache ich "warm up" mit dem Stück, das ich lerne indem ich es langsam spiele. Ich weiss nicht, ob es gut oder schlecht ist aber als Abwechslung zu Hanon geht auch...
Dohnanyi und Brahms 51 Übungen, 10 Mal besser.
@@floriankurz4169 Brahms kenne ich... Danke für den Tipp
Do you practice more than once a day? Do you warm up before each one?
RB Melk
Great video, thank you! Do you ever use Plaidy’s exercises? If so, do you find them useful? I use his exercises for scales in thirds and sixths, but I cannot find other pianists who use his exercises, and I am not completely confident that I am doing them correctly. The stretch in my hands (especially now that I am getting old - 47) feels good, particularly when practicing the sixth scales.. Would you be willing to make a video demonstrating Plaidy’s exercises or at least some strategies for playing scales in thirds and sixths?
Happy I came across this exercise of yours cos have always wanted sth that could help me practice in sixths, and thirds.
Thank you very much. Your tips help me a lot.
Really, I don't warm up but start in the morning session with hanon, grand galop chromatic- Liszt, op 53 chopin, gammes with 2d or 3d finger on black notes, then chopin gamme, then 1234, then Czerny octaves or clementi or kessler, then arpèges with Brahms and Rachmaninoff (I used to warm up with Rachmaninoff 3-2) ; this is technical
In the evening session, no warm up! (If I am invited at a dinner, I must be able to play upon request without warming up) but repertoire.
What an amazing video in so many ways, thank you
When transposing to another key, do you keep the same fingerings?
I just saw hajjmusic’s question and your answer “yes” .....thanks, nice videos 😊
Each key needs its own fingerings
4:01 The first rhythm sounds like the Game of thrones Opening rhytim
My God !! You are so talented and beautiful ☺☺
More beauty here than talent.
Thanks for a great lession...
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Thanx for outstanding tips! But about Hanon: what's the best schedule for the exercices? Day 1 - nr 1 in all keys; day 2 -nr 2 etc. Or would you advice different? What's your program?
Sorry, I see you gave the answer at 3:10. Clear!
Hi Annique, your videos are really interesting and enlightening!
I usually do some exercises from Hanon but I’ve never thought about different rithms. I’ll certainly try them in my piano session today.
Do you know Pichna’s technique exercises? My professor made me buy the book few weeks ago and some exercises are really tough and “hand-breaking” 🥵
Hanon is a great method WHEN you know what doing and can be improved if you're able to improvise or adapt it - a great training (to both hands and ears) is to play a random exercise not in unisons, but in thirds and sixths.
Thank you for tips and wwArmup
Excellent, thank you!
Hi Annique, what exercises do you recommend from Hannon before starting a study session?
Thank you so much for the fingering exercise tips as no one has been able to explain it so well as you have just shown.It is my biggest problem,hopefully not now.