♪ Hanon ♪ Exercise 1 [60 - 108 bpm]

'The Virtuoso Pianist' are "preparatory exercises for the acquirement of agility, independence, strength and perfect evenness in the fingers". The instructions say "lift the fingers high and with precision, playing each note very distinctly"

I've been working on these exercises for months, but I still can't play them at 108 bpm with "perfect evenness". My 4th and 5th fingers are very weak, that's why I lift them so high. 😢

Piano: Yamaha P-105.
Sound: Grand Piano 1.

Audio recorded with Behringer U-CONTROL UCA222.
Video: Panasonic HC-V100.
Software: Adobe Audition + Adobe Premiere Pro.

[ViktorKVaughn]

Just like everyone here has stated:

• a metronome is a complete MUST
• each note should be held for its full duration, not for a semi-staccato random length
• the focus should be on getting the timing perfect at the slowest possible tempo before attempting to move on, so as to avoid choppiness and incorrect technique that you will ultimately have to “un-learn”

However, on the positive side:

• you have the pattern almost perfectly memorized
• you seem to have a drive to want to learn, otherwise you wouldn’t have made the video at all 👍
•you aren’t snapping back at all of the criticism in these comments, which means you have very strong patience, which is also a MUST for learning piano

My advice is to follow all of the correct advice and keep playing for as long as you enjoy it and/or desire to become better!

A for attack, B for betterment, C for control, D for dexterous, and F for fastidious. Keep rocking! ❤️

[PianoMan]

Several problems here #1 you can't play this at 108! You need to slow it down to the speed you can played it comfortably and evenly at and take it up from there. Also #2 your fingers are double-jointed and bending back. Curl your fingers more like you are holding and orange. You can't get force playing with more flattish fingers like you are currently doing.

[EniaPiano]

I know that this doesn't sound right, especially the second part. 😢
But I needed to try. 😀

[dangeroussneeze]

“Lift the fingers high and with precision” i guess that’s what you did

[luisaalbuquerque]

Great! I'm learning such as you
It isn't perfect but this video was an inspiration for me

[wijnandbekker]

Great effort! These are very tedious excersises. The problem youre facing is lack of finger technique. Your fingers should be curled like sqeeuzing a tennis ball then push down with the top of your finger. Also the excercise is meant to play legato. What i do to even out all the note lengths is to play the excercise on only one position, for instance right hand middle c left hand one octafe lower and stay on that middle C. And then focus on fingers and making long even notes. Practice with a metronome and then slowly increase the speed. Feels comfortable? Then go through all the notes. Good luck!!

[UrLocalRengokuFan]

HANON EXCERCISE 1 IS LITERALLY ALL MY TEACHER USED TO CARE ABOUT

[EniaPiano]

I can play the 2nd and 3rd exercises at 108 bpm, but they sound terrible. I'm incapable of playing both hands at the same time and getting a "clean" sound.

[DavidMartinez-rkfd]

How play Hanon legato or Staccato?, I would rather Schmidt exercises, and play in all keys or rythm variations

[xiankunmeng]

Can you play the last page of this book thank 😊

[ribusgan]

The book says 2/4 quavers with 60 bpm per crotchet at the minimum. That's 240 notes (keystrokes) per minute. At the highest (108) it's 432. Am I wrong?

[pianojourneyswithben]

Just started these. 60bpm seems like quite the challenge. 108 will take forever to get to.

[yvantiger]

These exercises are great. Just a little tip... don’t move your arms at all. Use only your fingers strength

[Scensum]

Elena, estos ejercicios son un dolor de cabeza Jajaja También me llevó meses tocar el primer ejercicio.

[Squiddit]

as a wise man named bill wurtz once said, "that looks to me like a pretty severe creativity-killing procedure. it's almost like the exercise was designed with the power off"

[zeerandombub]

I think your fingers are flatish a little bit

[martinepeters]

I've never seen fingers bend backwards so much. I hope that you don't get injured.

[cheerup]

Your speed was not even while playing reverse 🧐, each note should have even interval

[ervinanaya]

Sorry, you need to strengthen your fingers and increase metronome by not more than 5 to 8bpm every week, practicing daily 20 minutes. Stay in time, be strict. Your staccato is uneven and at the higher speed you are falling apart completely.

[joyestheryan]

Don't move your arms so much and lift your fingers so that your fingers won't get in the way. I don't play that well but Im only 17 but I played for thirteen years