How to Practice Hanon - the Secret to Fast, Accurate Fingers
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- This video explains how to practice the ultimate piano technique book, "Hanon the Virstuoso Pianist." This is the way I learned and practiced Hanon, which got me enough technique to play all the music I want to. And I'm seeing my students develop their technique practicing this way every day.
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I read that as "How to practice Hamon" LMAO
Lol same
HAHA you fell for it fool! Thundah cross sprittu attacku!!
Hamon needs to be used in conjunction with hanon for optimal practice, like ripples through the piano. Flow like water sting like that one cola bottlecap in part 2 ep 1.
Mmmmm....hamon.
Every time we read that Hamon... We are allowed to say "curse you Dio Brando" and "Curse you Jojo". When frustrated.
I’me nine and i find this really helpful in my grade five practice because now I am starting to become better this is one of the best music video advice i have ever heard on earth. Liked subbed and practiced.
Thanks for this.
You are very excellent teacher ai am from Belize .👍
Thanks and welcome to my channel!
Learning piano here, good video... is that a frigging giant iPhone on the music sheet rest!? 👍🤣
It's an iPad pro 12.9 inch version. But a giant iPhone is pretty much what it is :)
Here's a link just for your reference: amzn.to/3zu8FiT
@@AkiraIkegamiChannel I swear, because of the angle it looks tall and narrow, didn't see it was an iPad. 😁
My girlfriend will appreciate this!!
She told me it works much better 😊
I've been practicing Hanon just 1 week now and already notice my standard pieces have become cleaner. I was not expecting such quick results!
I'm very glad this is working out for you!
I'll try to keep posting these tutorials, as well as performance videos and tips.
Same here
graeme stocker
A. You are listening to yourself. B. You are training athletically, which makes sense insofar as music-making is a physical activity.
But do not be overwhelmed by brand-name advertising. You could get similar results from another method, or just by practicing scales and arpeggios in a way which challenges your abilities.
However I can see the advantage of sticking to what you know, if practice opportunities are limited.
Hanon completely bypasses polyphonic playing. I don't know whether you believe or go to church, but old-fashioned SATB hymns, played first of all without pedal, are excellent training in this regard-------------also for developing skills in transposition and arrangement. Some of the texts are worth reading too, rich with Biblical allusions.
Bach's chorale settings are a step up in difficulty.
@@jesusislordsavior6343 what are some alternative methods to building speed and dexterity on the fingers, other than Hanon, that you would recommend?
@@J.R.Swish1
Great question with many possible answers, since there are so many different skills of physical coordination required with regard to so many different musical effects. Therefore access to a variety of repertoire is important, according to the individual player's level of development.
It is hard to learn technique per se without practical musical application. It would be like having a great set of tools and no job to do. Anyhow, we discover our best when trying to make something sound special, be it 'real music' or an abstract exercise.
To begin, there are basic patterns which every musician ought to know. As keyboard players, we might call them the fundamentals of keyboard geography. They tie up neatly in a bundle with our basci music theory:
-two-, three-, four- , and five- note sequences patterns in all keys (see Liszt's exercises, set down in his later years, and not to be confused with his concert etudes)
-scales, not just diatonic major and minor or chromatic scales, but modal scales as well (including whole-tone and pentatonic, you name it)
-triads, four-note chords, seventh chords both solid and broken (including not just V7 and dim7 but also m7, half-dim7, maj7, etc.)
-arpeggios on all the chords just listed, starting in root position and inversions
-octaves and double notes of various kinds, staccato and legato, solid and broken, with alternative fingerings (e.g. there are 10 ways to finger a third and 3 common ways to finger a 6th, namely 14, 25, and 13).
Indeed, learning alternative fingerings is one of the best ways I know to develop dexterity. Off the top of my head, I can think of 12 ways to play C major scale besides the usual one, all of which I have taught at some time. Why so? Before Bach, passing the thumb under was not systematized, whereas from Liszt onward the 4th and 5th were used more often to maximize velocity. With two hands playing together, one has to decide where the thumbs will coincide, which increases the range of possibilities. As far as 'normal' C major fingering is concerned, one may practice that 'legato' in any key, even G sharp minor harmonic! One feels 'brain fog' at first, but it clears up with repetition.
Also useful for developing dexterity:
-repeated notes with changing fingers (21, 31, 41, 51, 32, 42, 43, 53, 54, 321, 432, 543, 4321, 5432, and more). best practiced over a scale or short arpeggio in both at once
-short trills with a specific number of notes (white-white, black-black, white-black, black-white, half-steps and whole steps, right and left hands solo); this is excellent preparation for playing Baroque pieces
-held-note exercises, for finger independence (Dohnanyi's book of exercises, which is definitely worth checking out, starts with this kind)
-substituting unequal rhythmic patterns (e.g. dotted, reverse dotted) for even notes, which forces one to think THROUGH quicker notes in order to arrive at longer ones.
After all, the secret of SPEED is the ability to think FORWARD in large groups of notes, rather than one at a time. The more notes one can include in one impulse, the faster one could theoretically play. But we should also bear in the mind the state of the muscles when we play, that rigidity is the ENEMY of speed. On the other hand, a flaccid mechanism doesn't permit the transmission of enough energy to get the job done. It's a matter of athletic common sense. We need body awareness even as we listen to the sounds we produce.
Lastly, I'd mention that there is another less 'flashy' kind of dexterity which we all need for expressive polyphonic playing------------which includes the technique of stretches and silent finger substitution. Playing hymns and chorales (e.g. Bach chorales) without the sustaining pedal is ideal for this purpose.
I hope that some of these suggestions may be useful. Happy Easter! Christ is risen indeed.
My mother was a professional concert pianist that who played at a very high level (such as solo performances in Orchestra Hall in Chicago). EVERY time she practiced (which was almost daily) she would start out with a number of Hanon exercises. Maybe about five of them at least. If she was having some particular issue she needed to sort out, such as needing to better strengthen certain fingers, she might play also play a particular Hanon exercise to smooth out that rough spot.
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Buy a cheaper electrical keyboard to start with :D
Yamaha psr e363 is a good keyboard to start with.
@@devided4299 I just want to be specific about what I'm buying
Hey Kaitlyn, check the Roland FP30X it's a awesome piano that you may find useful for many many years, sounds very very good. You may find a cheaper one also, the Kawai ES110, which is also a very good sounding piano for starters. Check those on youtube!
My lack of finger dexterity has held me back since I started playing at age 12. My teacher was fixated on using fake books and teaching pop piano techniques. Here I am at age 62 and never before heard of this Hanon book. I feel cheated!!!
I'm sorry things didn't work out as well as it should have.
There is no set way to teach/learn music, so each teacher has their own way of teaching. So it's very important to choose the right teacher for you. It's not a matter of being a good or bad teacher. It's just that the teacher who is a good fit for one person does not necessarily a good match for another person.
I hope my videos can provide new insights and perspectives into music.
Your teacher probably wanted to impress your parents. Parents are the reason teachers take shortcuts...they just want to hear their kids play within the shortest possible time n boast about it
I was trained classical and wish I had more teaching such as yours since I am a producer and prefer improvising and composing music. Learning popular songs and internalizing key progressions is great. If you were to listen to Bill Evans interview, he says that's how he found jazz (although classically trained) it was playing popular songs over and over until he started started reharming and improvising. Some of the most talented musicians are gospel musicians which have a large influence on modern music, they've learned more like you have, playing hymns and worship music as well as improvising. So I wouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
No time like the present!
Ooooooh I am so sorry!!!!!
Dude, you must be a messenger from a higher power. I tried the 'slow and loud' technique on a Czerny Daily Study that I'd been struggling on and after four repetitions, I swear, my hands didn't even feel like they were mine. Thank you SO much.
Glad it helped!
My girlfriend made me watch this.
underrated comment
Dude wtf same
because your not satisfying her and shes showing you how to improve your "dexterity"
lol
She knows you need to train up on your finger technique
If my fingers moved as fast as this I'd never leave the house.
Me too, they would never see me at the bar again
Same
Too me....!!!!
Ha haa haa
For me is not the speed, is that I don't know how to play lol
I remember back in the 90s, I witnessed a concert pianist played the entire hanon book in one sitting, non stop from 1 thru 60 with great accuracy and then I realized why he was a Professional Concert Pianist..😁
It is truly something to play through all the exercises in one sitting, but sitting through all of them is also an extraordinary achievement :)
What musician plays this stuff in concert . Was it a congress or masterclass of some sort . My teachersalways told me doing repetitive exercises without making music and truly concentrating engendered bad habits especially for young people who have not strong musicality skills and approach music as a busy behavior .
The pianist was Albert Einstein.
@@MrInterestingthings .....I didn't say he was playing hanon exercises at a recital....he was warming up on stage playing the entire hanon book....obviously, that was before recital time...huh
@@AkiraIkegamiChannel exactly my thoughts!
I have been playing the piano for 18 years and have been without a piano teacher for 7 years now. I've always practiced Hanon but I'm so glad to have found this video because I just breeze through the exercises carelessly. Will definitely do this in my succeeding practices! You have earned a new subscriber :)
So, I'm an elementary music teacher and sometimes I feel so unqualified because of my level of piano. This video is great!
So basically I learned that I have a lot to learn. And that you can play every song
There is always something to learn. Piano journey never ends.
And it's more like I have fast and independent fingers to tackle pretty much any piece. But I still have to learn each piece just like anybody else.
I love the long short, short long. I’ve been doing that because of my old teacher. One that reeeeally helped me to focus on one hand while playing both, was to play one hand loud and one hand soft. And even alternating each measure
Hi Kyle,
That is an interesting way of practicing Hanon. Thank you for sharing.
Coincidentally, I just finished editing and am about to release a tutorial on voicing. If you can play Hanon one hand loud and the other soft, you probably don't need this video. But I thought the timing of your comment was very interesting.
When I learned to play piano in college I was never taught about Hanon. But then again, I still have trouble playing chords with my left hand while playing melody with my right, sooo.
Thanks for this quick lesson on finger exercises. I will take these small gems and practice them. I can type quickly with both hands so I can learn to play the piano quickly and accurately with both hands
Yes, you can do it! Just a matter of getting used to it.
@@AkiraIkegamiChannel Hi Mr Akira. You mentioned the earlier, more basic lessons... What are those? Would you make mention, please. Thanks
I have several videos about technical books before Hanon and beginner method books I use. Please check this channel's other videos.
What notes are you playing in the video ? Thanks
I would rather (or also) recommend practicing softly instead of loudly. It's more difficult to be consistent when you're playing lightly.
That sure is a good way to practice, too!
The real challenge and key to get the max out of Hannon is to play those exercises in all keys through the cycle of 5ts.
- major and harmonic minor - in parallel octaves, 10ths, and 6ths - ;-)
Rachmaninov said in his school they would be asked to play any of the 60 exercises at random, in any key, at twice the speed.
Daaang I never thought of this! Thank you 🙏🏻
@@boober6738 :)
Play difference exercise on each hand and switch them going down
When I took piano as a child my mother insisted I practice Hanon. I didn't understand it then but at 78 after playing since I was 5 I am so glad she did.
A great way to help develop independence between the hands with Hanon is to use various combinations of legato/staccato and forte/piano. Piano staccato in the left and forte legato in the right, for example. It can be challenging even with no.1 but extremely rewarding :)
I taught piano at a Yamaha school for over thirty years and always recommended the Hanon book, especially for students who demonstrated exceptional skill and a desire and dedication to achieve results. In addition I also used a Schmitt book too in order to improve finger independence. One of my gifted students played the first 30 Hanon exercises in all major keys. This may sound crazy but I also play guitar and practicing Hanon is a great warmup before picking up my guitar.
I am self taught. Hanon has been the single most beneficial tool at my disposal. It's like HIIT training for your fingers 💪🖐️
I recommend Hanon to my students. But once the pattern is memorized, I suggest constantly monitoring posture, arm weight, shoulders dropped, relaxing wrists, breathing, etc
Yes. They are all important.
Once the student understands the basic routine, we discuss additional tips to further improve their technique.
Unfortunately, I can't cover everything in a quick video, but I'll be talking about those concepts in the future ones. Stay tuned!
Teach me lol
Wdym by breathing?
Good man for putting this up there!! I started learning with Hanon and then moved on to Czerny's "The art of Finger Dexterity", also excellent, then finally Chopin (Opus' 10 and 25), I nearly wore out my copy of Hanon's "The Virtuoso Pianist" though!!! Good luck for the future and stay safe!!
Damn, your commentary is so inspiring to me ! Makes me want to relearn properly with Hanon, Czerny, and try some Chopin Études.
As a self taught pianist, you can really feel the effect of training and practice when learning piece like Beethoven Moonlight Sonata 3rd mvt. When I started it, my trills were bad, my left hand was weak, my arpeggios was inconsistent. I got frustrated and began improving clarity, accuracy and finger dexterity especially my left hand. Mind you I never attend any piano class, I just learnt and played any piece or songs that I like and usually prefer that are fast and challenging at least for me. Example: Yiruma (Reminiscent, Loanna, Infinia)
Now I can play Beethoven Moonlight Sonata 3rd Mvt. after practicing 6 months just for this but on keyboard though. I don't have a piano yet and its not the same as playing on a piano because its keys are harder but at least I can play it on keyboard. Really shows how practice and training are important. Just want to share my experience though
WoW, that's AWESOME!
Thank you for sharing your journey and tips🙏🏽😊
May i ask if you used sheet music or synesthesia/yt videos to play the piano pieces and how old u are and how long have u been practicing piano as a whole?
Im about to embark this journey in a few months, just saving up to buy a keyboard lol
May i ask if u used a tutorial video?
Did you practice hanon in c# minor?
My piano teacher makes me do each set of five Hannons (until 31) in all twelve keys. It's been taking a while to get through the book, but at least I have a great feel of playing in each key!
Hanon is a waste of invaluable time ..Learn Bach inventions and Chopin Etudes not that none musical tech stuff
Hanon is very useful, especially when played in the 12 major keys.
Rachmaninoff swore by it. He was no slouch.
Be careful when you speak.
My kind of teacher! Simple and concise!! Your students are very fortunate to be under your guidance..Thank you for the video👍
You are very welcome
Love the hanon exercises!
Sometimes I'll throw in a sharp 4 or a flat 7 just to goof around with a couple modes. :D
Bronson Bragg
Had I read only the first sentence I would have been a little concerned. But the modality is an excellent practice suggestion, especially if you don't cheat by using white keys only. Sharp 4 plus flat 7 is cool (Lydian and Mixolydian mixed).
Speaking of discipline freaks, did you ever hear about Adolph Henselt, who reputedly used to read the Bible while playing Bach's WTC on a dummy keyboard? Quite apart from the loss of impact when Bach's notes are not heard, the Word of God is not heard either when there is too much distraction. Bach himself would have acknowledged that the Bible is infinitely greater than WTC.
How about having students play select Hanon exercises in every key once they have mastered the key of C? This was suggested to me many years ago in order to make Hanon a more useful tool in developing good technique. It would be quite a challenge!
Check out my thoughts on that: ruclips.net/video/MKXMElUeOY8/видео.html
It goes hand in hand with Carl Czerny first lessons
How can the robotic exercise improve tone and artistry? Strength comes from arm and forearm, not from fingers. Staccato is not a single finger movement. It is a collaboration of the body and hand. The original hanon was written for organ. Please check out the latest Faber Hanon which explains the purpose of all exercises and how the hands and body work. We need to be very careful on these exercises, especially on high speed. Without knowledge of technique, such as forearm rotation, it is very easy to get injury like RSI, carpet tunnel problem, etc.
Totally agree with you!
excellent!
Good concert pianists don't use rotation to cover up deficiency of finger strength. In fact, with strong MCP joints, one can play with relaxed arm with ease and authority
@@charispaxton113 Fingers don’t have strength but flexibility. Look at how flexible of Yuja Wang’s fingers. She can even flip the fingers at the back of the hand which people normally cannot do. Keyboard reaction can help to increase speed, too but definitely not finger strength.
I thought studying Hanon was useless until i stumble upon the 35-tuplet in Chopin's Nocturne in C Sharp minor....
Got a digital piano (Casio Privia 770) last Monday, never touched a piano in my life. The real and probably only reason why I bought is: Chopin. And maybe because that specific piece... Learning it right now and, man, it's a pain but I'm making little progress everyday, I can't be happier. And yeah, those 35 tuplets scare me, but also the change to 5/4 and 3/4 time signatures.... I'm proud of myself anyway, even tho I obviously still sound very bad.
I'm 24 year old now, I'm sad I didn't start years ago, but at least it's not too late!
@@FockeWulfFW200 It's never too late! Just be patient and practice every part slowly. That Nocturne is not particularly a beginners piece so don't be discouraged if it takes you several months to make it sound more or less decent. Oh and about those tuplets, don't try to force your hand to play ir super fast from the get-go or you can injure yourself and that's definitely something you want to avoid a pianist. Also i would highly recommend you to find a good teacher if you can afford it.
Are you suggesting that we go through all 20 exercises in Book 1 with the four techniques. 1. Loud 2. Long/Short 3. Short/Long. 4. Staccato. Or just the first exercise. Please advise
You can apply these rhythmic variations to all 20 exercises in book 1.
Also, I recommend working on one exercise at a time until you are satisfied, then move onto the next exercise.
Thanks so much! Will do!😊
Great piece of advise.... My Hanon has been collecting dust for a long time.... maybe it's time to recall it
As a teacher I often get the student to play one bar staccato the next bar legato and so on. They say, no, it is impossible, but I demonstrate and give them a challenge. It makes the student use their brain more. I also do alternating staccato/legato between the hands, and bar by bar. At the beginning of the original Hanon book there are two pages of rhythm patterns, I have yet to play them all . Playing then in other keys is also challenging. My duet partner and I, both 70 years old, swear by Hanon . It is important to teach the student how to be relaxed and to stop at the first sign of pain. I have never had pain playing Hanon and I have been playing it since I was 13 or so.
Why is it important to stop at pain?
Because you may injure yourself. You must play with relaxation and wrist rotation. If you are playing one hand at a time, you can always swap to the other hand. However, it is important to stop a moment and work out why you are feeling pain. @@zei9256
Another challenge is to play one hand all staccato and another all legato. Same for forte/piano
@@zei9256because you'll get injured otherwise and won't be able to play at all, maybe even for the rest of your life. Take the pain VERY seriously.
Thank you for this video, and I agree with everything you say. I only started practicing Hanon after school when I went to university, but I had done all the scales and arpeggios, etc right through school so had a good running technique. The controversy that comes with Hanon is that teachers either introduce it too soon, and they don't explain how to do them correctly to avoid tension or injury. I give Hanon to most of my students, but a lot of the younger ones want instant results and don't want to go through the motions to develop strength and agility - for me that is a universal problem in my part of the world - with exceptions of course. I also find that transposing into all the other keys very helpful - and adjusting to the new positions this demands. I have a second copy of Hanon with 2 pages of rhythmic variations, different articulations and slurring which makes them more challenging and interesting, I respect the opinion of other teachers who don't like them, but for me (and I see in your studio) they are one of the ways of training the fingers for strength and speed. I use other technical books too, but as with everything, if you play with the correct technique you won't experience any tension or injuries.
I completely agree with you, too!!
This really works, I practiced this for 20 minutes daily for a month, my fingers are really moving very fast! I can see improvement in flexibility over the time, cheers!
Yay! I'm glad it worked for you, too!
Thanks for sharing the result. This makes my day!
Play from the surface of the key for better technique and control. You can play these exercises without leaving the surface of the key. Think touching the key then playing it. Also try not to connect with finger legato, meaning overlapping the notes withOUT finger connection. Separate a little like a strand of pearls. Close together but space between. This makes you relax and give you limitless headroom in tempo later.
Not stacatto ?
Hold up, I instantly knew the first piece that you started playing... It's what I've been practicing from this book my mom had that had literally lost its cover and back. Guess I know what it actually was
Also it was definitely helpful, especially in getting me to be able to have smooth consistency when playing semiquavers or triplets and the such in other pieces
What's it called
This legit is a great exercise to improve,finger precision on the piano.I don't have a healthcare professional or teacher or someone to consult about this,but I am passionate about improving on the piano so although I'm still very much a beginner I think I'm pretty much ok with the basics and will always refer back to it, however I'm starting Hanon practice tonight,I will be very careful tho😁
What pianists see: How to practice Hanon
What JoJo fans see: How to practice Hamon
I'm a self taught pianist but I kinda left the piano due to being busy with my work, I work as a doctor and I don't have much time to practice, I just learned about hanon and czerny, I started to practice hanon few days ago because I felt like I was worse as a piano player than I was 2 years ago because I haven't played the piano for the past two years, your video really helped explaining how to practice in the correct way, so thank you!.
Thank you for sharing your feedback. I'm glad you found this video useful!
Hanon and Czerny are what I consider muscle training in piano. They are less musical and not as much fun to play compared to regular repertoire, but they really help you build basic technique that will be useful for anything you do on the piano. It's like athletes building strong body so they can play their specialty sports well. These are excellent choice if you had limited time to practice, and have patience to spend it on basics.
Please let me know if you have any question, or request for future video topic. I'll be happy to assist you as much as I can.
Tried this, accidentally learned Hamon, now I’m a Joestar
Great top 4 tips for practicing this hanon book. I got it too with the 60 exercises but expanded this to 25 new variations. Thanks for the inspiration!
Very slow, even, loudly
Medium, even
Slurring
Long-Short, slow
Short-Long, slow
Staccato, even soft, medium or loud
Staccato long-short
Staccato short-long
Accented, even
Accented, long-short
Accented, short-long
Fast, quiet/soft, even
Super fast, calmly
Crazy fast, very quiet (ppp, quarter note metronome at 300+ bpm only on select exercises)
single-double pattern
single-triplet pattern
Classical
Ragtime
Stride
Jazz
Bossanova
Latin Funk
Neo Soul
New Age
Lo-fi Hip Hop
Dude very good I really like how you explain the theory 👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸⚔️⚔️⚔️
Great job man, thanks. Did you say that students in your studio start practicing Hanon at 108 tempo? If so, isn't it too fast to begin. Actually, 108 is the ultimate goal of speed that may take months to achieve...
That is correct. But I start my students' technical training with Dozen a Day series. So by the time they make it to Hanon, they are already used to playing 16th notes at 80. They still struggle a little in the beginning, but on average, most students can achieve 108 within a month.
@@AkiraIkegamiChannel congratulations to you then...I just started to implement your 4 way Hanon practice routine today. How would you suggest to split them? I mean, should I practice all four in one sitting or should I do the first part for several days then move to the others etc.
@@serkantekdemir9946 All 4 in one sitting (you can actually go from one way to another non-stop). You start all the rhythms slowly, but as you feel more comfortable, you can start playing faster. Don't do #1 too fast though, because that can build tension and cause injury.
They say Czyerny would/could practice @ 190 😵💫😵💫
I remember 30+ years ago buying this book (Hanon) and working through it on guitar looking for new ideas even though I had never heard anyone play any of them. so much easier now a days with RUclips anyone can easily hear them with the click of a mouse. thanks for posting it's inspired me to go back and take another look at them
I let my pupils play "normal/ long short/ short long / normal " as one round.
Stacc is fine, i also let them play left hand forte/ right piano and Vice versa. Staccato Right hand , legato left hand and vice versa
Very nice is hands in Canon,
And very good is transposing into other tonalities.
Heard the first bar and instantly had flashbacks to my childhood :O
Nice 👍 I've never played and I'm 64 can I learn ..I plat the mandolin maybe I should try
I used to practice Hannon, didn’t work for me. I randomly just started doing czerny exercises for no reason and they did more help in 5 days then Hannon did in 1 month, maybe I didn’t practice it right..
Daniel Florencio
The explanation is simple. You are a human being, not a robot. Or like me, you lack the necessary masochism to stick with the programme. I use it in small doses with the very few students who can tolerate it, and I would insist on transposition. Who in the past 500 years has played on white keys only?
Whoever sings or plays an instrument has to attend to quality of sound and rhythm. Hanon teaches one nothing about these. Rhythm is more than the ticking of a metronome. People who believe in Hanon as the foundation of keyboard playing remind me of the type who think that money makes the world go 'round. If God made us in His image, we should not degrade ourselves aesthetically, any more than we should degrade ourselves morally.
@@jesusislordsavior6343 wow, you are correct, I realize that now.
@@jesusislordsavior6343 You cant learn everything at once. You have to crawl before you walk and walk before you run. There is nothing wrong with Hanon excercises.
@@junjungatbos3548
No, there is nothing 'wrong' with them, but they are exceptionally MONOTOMOUS. This can be a deterrent against practice for a lot of people. Other very good sets are neglected by comparison. An experienced teacher will know how to invent exercises based on common patterns.
I don't think of them as appropriate for beginners in most cases. If one takes all 60 into account, and not just the first 20, they offer challenges even for quite advanced players.
I wish you a Happy Easter.
you are gread sir next video please
Great explanation and so much valuable info, thanks! I've been practicing Hanon for a few months but haven't been consistant and I wasn't getting better. I'll definitely try it your way!
I thought it said "How to practice Hamon"... 🗨👄🗨
AS A MUSICIAN, I AM NOT DISAPPOINTED THOUGH
One rythm I often give to students just beginning to speed up the hanon is long short short short and asking them to check if their wrist is relaxed while on the long note. The most major drawback on hanon is often the crispation some develops if practiced wrong
Yes. Hanon can lead to injury if not done right.
That's why I check student's Hanon progress each week to make sure they are not developing bad habit.
Is there a book you'd recommend as a prerequisite for Hanon?
Check out my other tutorial videos :)
There's no doubt if i was living near you i would sign up for your school
I'm in a process of setting up online lessons so that I can provide occasional advice or one-on-one consultation. Stay tuned!
Somehow my piano teacher doesn't like that book.🤔 So I practise sometimes alone with it.
Thank you... I have this book as a beginner (1year) so this demonstration is helpful... thank you... subscribed too...
Once you dominate section 1 of the Hanon, what is your suggestion for the daily routine of an amateur pianist? Are you suggesting to do only Section1? Also all the rhythm variations you suggest? I advice some of my grandchildren. I myself do exercises 21-30 of Section 2 daily, at a moderate speed, as was recommended to me by my teacher when I gave up pìano lessons at 19, Poldi Mildner, Now I added some octaves, as with age, LXXXIII, my hand is becoming smaller
I would do the rest of the book as well. After #31, they are no longer simple repetition, so each of them has different ways to practice. Rhythm practice may still work on some of them, though. So far, I released a tutorial on Hanon scales and black key tips was released just this morning. These 2 may help you with the scale section.
Wow I’m still learning and nowhere near 152bpm
Took me a long time, too!
Gee! I used to have to use Hannon 50 years ago! I hated it …. But it did help me I suppose!
Thank you very much for this video. Just got the book a week ago so it seems that I'm lucky to see this video!🎹🎹🎹
The only thing I would add is that I do Hannon like this except through all the different keys too
I’m a teacher and appreciate your video! Just subscribed.
Here’s how I teach Hanon. We make a big deal of each student getting their own Hanon once they can play 4 octave scales at a moderate tempo with metronome.
We concentrate on book 1 which I call “The Hanon 20”.
There’s a beginning or “learning” week and then “challenge“ weeks. On beginning week metronome is set under 80. Mostly in the 60s range. Then exercise is played 3 times. First one click per key so 8 clicks per measure with each 16th note getting the click. Count out the ending half note and start over doubling the tempo so there are 4 clicks per measure with 8th note getting the click. Double tempo again for 3rd and last time with 2 clicks per measure. This time the quarter note gets the click. Obviously the slow practice helps set the fingering and keys correctly and contributes to evenness and clarity. When learned correctly with good technique, legato etc. the student moves onto the “challenge “ phase. They can omit the first 16th note phase and only play the 8th and quarter phases as fast as they can! We usually go through the “Hanon 20” 3 times with the goal of achieving metronome tempo of 120 for all 20.
I’m convinced that the consistent application of Hanon and other exercises like scales and arpeggios has helped my students feel confident and successful.
I've wanted to learn how to practice Hamon, still enjoyed the tutorial
Hanon is an excellent book, very musical and certainly promotes release from tension. I found it especially useful one day when I ran out of toilet paper and it sounded great. It has real liberating power ❤️
Not sure if you are being serious or sarcastic, because you can actually learn to be musical and releasing tension through Hanon :) Unfortunately, not many people realize that and not many teachers know how to teach that way.
@@AkiraIkegamiChannel Yes, dear Maestro Akira. Frankly, I am not a fan of the book and was just trying to convey the idea in a fun way, to stir up a bit the comment section. Personally, I believe one can, and should, achieve dexterity by playing actual music. A lot of pieces have tons of technical passages which can be practised profitably. IMHO actual music is just too vast, and life too short, to use the piano to do pure gymnastics with it ❤️. I know the opinions on the Hanon can be very different, and of course, anyone must be free to enjoy his piano any way he likes. If one wished could also do decline inverted rows with the piano 😂
@@W-HealthPianoExercises I actually used to think like that too. Had a teacher for 2 years and when she asked me to do those exercises I thought it was terribly boring and pointless. Last week I decided to step up and learn an intermediate piece, Clair de Lune by Debussy... and I kept feeling frustrated because my fingers didn't obey when I wanted to do some transitions. Especially the 4th and 5th fingers, very very stubborn. Researched about finger independence, strength and agility and here I am, back to this Hanon book! It's making all the difference. Now I get why my teacher asked me to play those "boring" exercises.
The best way to deal with Hanon is to NOT PLAY THIS RUBBISH.
Play the 545 Scarlatti Sonatas
The 18 Mozart Sonatas
The 27 Chopin Etudes the 23 Liszt Etudes & most importantly Bach WTC Books 1& 2.REAL ACTUAL MUSIC-with techniques rendered that Hanon never even addresses.
Hanon on the other hand is a great way to cultivate unmuscical robots.
The choice is yours.
You don't have to choose only one of them. You can use Hanon as a strong technical foundation while learning musicality from other repertoire.
But if you choose to work only on one thing, that's also your choice.
@@AkiraIkegamiChannel --The entire masterworks I listed are NOT 1 THING.
They are the highest level of technical & musical representations of the best music our species have conjured up in the last 500 years.( hello?)
Like Horowitz,Rachmaninoff,Valentina Giles,Richter,Agerich,Pollini,Gould,,Ashkenazy....
ad finitum ---the very best pianists in history have 1 attribute in common ,they all unanimously agree " technique cannot be taken & considered separately outside of music " no more so than nutrients can be evaluated & considered outside of food( weird comparison IK) but valid.
When I was getting my masters degree in music on way to PhD @ Arizoba State---I played the whole hanon book---while another student played Stravinsky's Petroushka .
Years later I've mastered Petroushka & am dumbfounded by the time wasted doing garbage like hanon.It's utterly & completely useless.
I learned my lesson.
Will you ever learn yours?
Seems like you know what you are doing, so you don't have to convince me.
Thanks for sharing your opinion.
This is music and not a formula 1 racing.
Yes, but not all music is slow.
Even in slow pieces sometimes you need the ability and technique to accelerate at certain passages!
@@ronstlouis2745 this! Hanon exercises arent supposed to be musical, theyre supposed to improve your technique so that you have the ability to play fast passages.
Saying that hanon exercises are unmusical seems a strange critique to me, since they are literally just technical exercises- you need a balance in practise, if you just practise slow pieces then it is going to take a long time for finger dexterity and speed to develop, so we have exercises to help
Ragtime is harder than the drill you are using--need those jumps in octaves
Terrifiant, procédés absolument obsolètes, qui raidissent (parfois irrémédiablement) poignet, l'articulation de l'épaule, celle du coude ; conséquemment /concomitamment, toute la zone du diaphragme est figée /immobilisée : la respiration /la ventilation est en sous-alimentation.
Bref, dieu merci, on ne joue et n'enseigne plus le piano ainsi...
... Instrument qui ne peut se résumer à 10 doigts façon petits marteaux-piqueurs!
I don't understand French, but thank you for bringing more culture to my channel!
You can also develop the long-short/short-long into long-short-short/short-long-short/short-short-long, and you can keep adding short notes once you get comfortable with the current amount you are working on.
I like your videos. Your Hanon practice is good.
I'm learning piano in yt and these kind videos are so helpful. I can play with 152bpm but I Don't know how read sheet Music 😅. I'm learning music theory myself for 4 months and I'll learn music production next😬.
Learning music production and can't read sheet music. Is like writing a book without knowing the alphabet
@@LucaBonato not really
My girlfriend appreciated this! Many thanks
You are the best at teaching,very clear and easy to follow 👍
I am going to training this way that u showed !! Let’s try !!
Awesome video! I'm a guitar payer by the way. haha
Oh wow the result of this exercise is really astonishing! I've only been using this exercise for almost a week bfr i practice my fav piece and can't believe I almost can play the full piece without a lot of struggle. I thought that i can master this piece next year but thank god RUclips recommended me your video! Thanks very much akira ikegami for this!
I'm glad to hear it worked for you, and thank you for sharing your result!
I appreciate if you can like my other videos and share them with your friends, too. It'll help this channel tremendously.
I'll keep sharing my piano tips and other interesting stories with everyone.
Hanon is NOT your ticket to playing very hard classical music. You must advance beyond that and I would suggest going to Czerny with his Art of Finger Dexterity. Hanon is the minor league compared to Czerny!
I agree. Hanon by itself won't make you a pianist.
I use Czerny, too, in conjunction with Hanon. Hanon is to strictly focus on your finger (and some hand) movement, and Czerny is to use it in more musical settings, if you can call that musical :)
How about transposing these exercises to other keys like G Major or F Major. Can you imagine the different fingerings for each key?
the best is to use same fingering for black keys. I even let my students use minor keys for Hanon. so they learn difficult keys also very fast.
I’m equivocal about Hanon, or any of these exercises. Firstly, they are so boooooring!!!! Secondly, Hanon retarded my technical development such that I reached a plateau that I couldn’t pass for over a decade. I actually had to UNLEARN all I had practiced (starting by not playing at all for 3 years) and start all over again from scratch.
(Unfortunately, One can never fully unlearn or undo your muscular development. It took me another ten years to learn new habits and pass that “Hanon” plateau!)
So, how to practice? Well, the rhythm approach is good, but I’m not so sure about super slow or staccato practising, coz it changes the whole shape of your hand and how you manipulate your fingers.
First thing I do is to simply take a passage from a piece I am learning (the demi-semi quaver section in Chopin’s nocturne or the 2nd page of Liszt’s Bmin sonata, say) and master it section by section, using the rhythm technique, a chunking technique (e.g. playing all 5 notes at a time, or playing the passage as chords; also shaping the hand in a rigid mould and dropping the hand onto the keys like a hammer, etc.) and then joining the sections together 9sometimes by practising just the jumps in-between each section: last note of previous set of 5-notes to first 1-2 notes of the next section).
Ultimately, you don’t play a long continuous marathon of connected notes, but “hop” or “float” from one hand position to the next, like a shape-shifting rubber hammer.
Another important technique you should aim for is to get to the point where you can play 5 or 8 notes as a “gesture” with your hand. You’re no longer playing individual notes but allowing your hand to follow a reflexive sequence (like going down a roller coaster: once you’ve started there is no stopping it until the end). It can sometimes be a roll of the hand, or a wiggle; but it’s an integrated and reflexive movement that you can’t really control once initiated... which does also mean that you have to get the gesture just right, coz once you’ve learnt it you can’t erase it or modify it!)
It’s A LOT more fun to master a passage of a piece you’re actually working on. No need to practice gymnastics that you might never use. Become a specialist in just those types of techniques that you need to solve the technical challenges you encounter in the actual pieces you want to play.
And you’ll find that many pieces you play will require very similar techniques to those you’ve already mastered. I might not be able to play Mozart so well coz my “plain” scales and arpeggios are quite clumsy. But I can play anything that Chopin throws at me, coz I’ve used Chopin as my “Hanon”. Same for Beethoven. I’m now finding that Liszt requires mastery of a whole new set of techniques. Something that Hanon not only didn’t prepare me for in the slightest, but actually prevented me from being able to tackle Liszt at all! :o
Gracias maestro por ayudarnos
This applies in every task where you need faster fingers
The most important thing - which should have been said - is this: if it starts hurting, stop immediately - you are doing something wrong and the practice will harm you. This is one of many reasons to learn an instrument from a teacher. Alone you cannot correct yourself!
Amen!
Hi Akira, I cannot make a comment I never made Hanon like that. I ' ve a student 13 years old with 10 years of piano. I'm doing that experience with her and let you know. Thanks for the clue
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Looking forward to your update!
Do you recommend using rotation, at least when playing the exercises in straight rythm (not dotted or staccato)?
Depends on how you use it. Your wrist and arms shouldn't be locked in place, but rather let the hands move to wherever your fingers take them to. As a result you may end up with rotating wrists no matter what you are playing. But if you are rotating your wrists in order to push down the fingers, no.
Also, really dumb title: "the secret to..."
Hanon is pervasive. Who is hiding this secret? Totally mainstream just like this video
But I got you to watch it :)
The disclaimer at the end of the video seems very relevant, it should probably be at the beginning. I would add that this exercises shouldn't be attempted all on the first day but rather get to be able to do all of them through constant practice. I've seen more than a few student develop serious injuries like tendonatis. Practice as much as you can, but always be aware of your body and don't play over pain: that won't make you a better player, it will just hurt you. Good luck!
Tendinitis
And yes try to relax your forearms
@@kapjoteh Thank you for the clarification! I googled the word but I had doubts, and now I see I was right to have them :P
Just when I thought my hanon tempo was already beginner level HAHAHAHAHHA
I wouldn't call 108 beginner tempo. My students have already played other technique books before Hanon. That's why they start at 108.
I'm having trouble, I learned piano without learning how to read notes 😭
That's not necessarily a bad thing. To me, it's amazing how people can learn piano without reading.
It just means you have to train how to read, like when you first learned Alphabets as a child. Because you've already learned listening and playing, it'll be frustrating. But if you have the will-power, you'll be able to learn how to read decently.
there's an app called "clefs" that you might find mire intuitive than trying to learn normally, and don't worry it's not as complicated as it may seem at first :)
@@AkiraIkegamiChannel yeah, its frustrating for me, its not easy but I'm willing to learn, thanks Akira!
@@ozzy3933 i'll try to look at it, thanks for the help, God bless you!
Try reading each hand alone with a metronome set very slowly. It's even helpful to have the metronome set to count eighth notes, which paces you to get the next note. This will help keep you focused and keep your eyes moving and paced - learning to look ahead, and resisting the impulse to fix wrong notes - learn to just keep going. Use very easy music at first, and work up to reading both hands together - it just takes lots of time and practice to develop the skill - you'll get there!
PS consciously knowing triad inversions and intervals will help you see and play them as units rather than individual notes - that also helps.
I remember this when I was a kid. What a bore, I thought
I thought this was going to be on the guitar but great video
I have done an adaptation of this book for guitar. I should post a video regarding this. Cheers!
@@JTW_Music that’s good to know, I would encourage you to do it if you have the time because I’m sure it would help others too
I'm devoted to Hanon, BUT the exercises MUST be transposed into other keys; there must be black keys in the study. No need for transposition to all the keys, but some of them.
Here's my opinion on that:
ruclips.net/video/MKXMElUeOY8/видео.html
So excited I found this! I am 65 and have been teaching myself piano now for about 6 months.. I get overwhelmed sometimes trying to balance learning intervals, sight reading, scales, notes, ear training, finger independence and dexterity. So happy I found this as a great foundation to start my practice sessions every day...I have need doing Hanon and have gotten better (though going down the keyboard sometimes gets sloppy).. but this structure and methodology will help me so so much.. thank you!!
M Tidbit, I am 67 and I had my first performance of Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto at 14. I had 10 years as a concert pianist. I had to give it up when I was told I was playing wrong notes in the Saint-Saens 1st concerto. There was something going wrong in my brain that was giving my fingers false signals and I had to retire from performing. I wanted to throw myself off a bridge, it was like taking the legs off a runner. Instead, I decided to give the gift of music to others so I spent the rest of my life teaching and I am still learning. You never stop learning. But you can get better even at your age. The secret is practice, practice, and even more practice. You have to get muscle memory and that's the only way you can achieve it. Anyway, even if you can't give the time, it's still fun. I only play for my wife these days unless someone asks me to play then I might consider it. But NEVER give up no matter how bad you think you are, you can only improve and when you play for others people will love you for it.
@@pianoboylaker6560 what a sad but inspiring story...thank you. I tell myself my goal is to play Carnegie Hall when I am 120... silly of course but it oddly keeps me motivated to practice.. I say to myself.. “I won’t get to Carnegie Hall if I don’t practice..LOL... but it keeps me motivated. I am fortunate enough to be retired and Covid certainly kept me home so, that’s how it all pretty much started. I spent a lifetime envious of those that could play and I am thrilled now at the building blocks of piano when I make progress! Though I love music, perhaps unlike many, I am not focused only on playing music.. I enjoy the exercises and feel that the better I get at sight reading, fingering etc.. the more reward I will have when I do practice a piece of music as I will have a stronger foundation. For now, as friends become vaccinated, I am looking forward to a holiday party where I can play Christmas carols for them. it’s a goal..and may very well be a building block to my premier at Carnegie Hall.. LOL. Thank you for your inspiring words..😉
I've met too many people that spent all their time practicing hanon and now they can't play anything (except hanon which isn't actually music). I haven't played it for years when I first met these kinds of people, but maybe I'll revisit it a bit now that I have some basic piano skills. Definitely not for beginners, though!
I agree. Not for beginners, and this is not the only book you should be practicing. But it's amazing if anyone can actually only practice Hanon for years. True dedication :)