Hanon The Virtuoso Pianist Pdf Download

Hao Huang believes that "Hanon, Schmitt or Czerny have been useful for beginning pianists, affording variety as an alternative to endless practicing of scales and arpeggios" but warns against "the idea of technical exercises as panacea":

There is nothing more dulling than hours spent mindlessly going over finger patterns. This does not prepare you to be either a pianist or a musician. Too often, teachers assign technical exercises as a shortcut to technical mastery. It is easier to assign pages from an exercise book than to analyze and break down the physical elements in a specific difficult passage of music... Dorothy Taubman is one of the well known pedagogues who campaigns against technical exercises, asserting that they do far more damage than good. Certainly, indiscriminate practicing of exercises can damage a pianist just as forcing repetition of a difficult piece. In my mind, the question should not be whether or not to use technical exercises, as much as how to think physically at the piano.[1]

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I've been working through it for several months now and my technique, finger strength, and sheer ability has absolutely skyrocketed. I'm being VERY careful to not injure myself as that seems to be the biggest complaint that I've heard from people regarding the volume, but over the course of 6 months I've gone from a mediocre pianist to having mastered an entire Beethoven concerto that I never dreamed I would be able to play - ever! What do you guys think? Why is it so frowned upon these days and what are your opinions? For context I'm a professional violist but studied piano for a few years long ago and just picked it up again.

I am a self-taught pianist (or keyboardist, whatever you prefer). Some time ago I came across The Virtuoso Pianist but, because I never played under the eye of a professional, I was turned away by the following comment on Wikipedia:

I doubt you're going to rush to a teacher now, so I would recommend you start slowly, follow the written instructions and fingering, observe qualified pianists on Youtube etc to copy their technique.

I'm a professional piano player and I hope I will give my opinion as such. And please excuse my English if I make mistakes, this is not my language. The hanon can be very helpful to every piano player. But if you try to play it you must do it very slow. Slow and with more sound. And you mustn't play it faster if you feel any pressure. Playing technical exercises does not suppose to be hard. The thing you have to do is to find the most natural position of your hands. And the problem of the many of the self-taught pianists is not that they don't have piano teachers, is the amount of time, and the results that are expected. I have played piano for 17 years, hours and hours every single day, and until two years ago I wasn't able to play the Hungarian rhapsody 2 properly. But back to the question one of the advantages that you have as a self-taught pianist is that you have the desire, you're not forced to play, and your hand is (I suppose) already grown, so the thing you have to do is to be very patient and play everything very slow, with lot of sound. That's the way to find the most natural and comfortable position of your hands. Every person is unique, so the most natural position for your hands will be unique too. And I can say from experience that sometimes the teachers are not helping, on the contrary they can do lot of harm. And when the thing you are playing becomes comfortable, then is the time when you start playing it faster. Just don't skip the whole process, it is becoming faster in time

It's quite interesting to note that most critics of Hanon have never gone through the entire book, hence their ignorant utterance. I'm a self taught pianist. I started playing at the age of 28 and I went through the 60 exercises by Hanon for a year. If you can hear or see me playing you would assume I started at a very early age due to my technique. Thanks to hanon exercises I now play with the big boys in choir competitions and I am the most sought after pianist in my country.

This Hanon Exercise No. 34 is an exercise to pass a thumb (the 1st finger) under the 4th finger and to cross the 4th finger over the thumb right after at that. Also, when you start the next measure, you will be hitting the same note that was the last note of the previous measure, with the 1st finger (the thumb). Basically, you will be replacing the same note with the thumb from the 4th finger quickly. Therefore, you can do the staccato on the last note of each measure so that you can quickly replace the fingers on the same note. The 1st measure is a warm up. Please repeat the warm up slowly for 10 times before starting the ascending. The thumb is normally dropped lower than other fingers. However while doing this exercise, you have to consciously lift your thumb off the key so that you can play the next key with your thumb clearly and firmly. The 99% of the times when pianists are playing pieces and when they need to cross over or under other fingers, the thumb is the one that needs to cross under. Therefore this is the basic preparation of that technique just like Hanon Exercise No. 32 (under finger-2) and No. 33 (under finger-3).

I have heard complaints on this matter many times in many different and, at the same time, very similar contexts. In my opinion, the solution is fairly straight forward: We pianists need to exercise regularly to maintain our physical ability to play at the standard we want. And if we know how to exercise and warm-up, it does not take too much of our time at all.

But do we need to play it this way? Hanon is merely collection of exercises, and we just need to know how to use them to our advantage for developing the pianistic skills we or our pupils need. To use Hanon (and indeed any type of exercises) successfully, we must know the purpose. What are you struggling with, either generally or specifically?

The famous novelist, Agatha Christie, who as it happens was also a very highly accomplished pianist, described in her autobiography how she questioned the amount of exercises she had to play. The advice of her German piano teacher was: 17dc91bb1f