DON'T Practice Hanon Piano Exercises: Do This Instead

Hanon Piano Exercises.
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[babyseahorse]

But who ever said Hanon and Czerny exercises are meant to be played mindlessly? They are repeating patterns that provide you a structure to your practice if you lack the self discipline. It's not about being able to finish playing the notes, it's about refining your coordination and promoting efficiency. For many people the awkwardness of doing something improperly is not apparent when they only do it once. But the tension adds up through repetition and makes itself noticeable. The problem is the mindless approach to react to this issue by not changing the way you use the body.

[gwaynebrouwn]

Hanon and Czerny are perfect for exactly that. You are not supposed to practice them mindlessly. Focus on keeping good form good posture and increase ur speed and accuracy while remaining good form. It’s like going to the gym. If you form is shit, doesn’t matter how hard u train, it’s gonna hold u back. Never practice mindlessly

[philipgrosvenor]

I use Hanon exercises and I can honestly say they have helped improve my timing and coordination with left and right hands. Especially helping me to strengthen my left hand.

[joymarkWei]

I’ve been practicing Hanon and Czerny for a while now, and it actually helped me sight read, and helped me with strength.

[PracticalPianoTips]

Definitely catchy video. You peaked my interest with the burning Hanon. Yes practicing Hanon or Czerny with tension and in the wrong way will bring more harm than good.

[Tzadeck]

I always feel like I play MUCH better on a given day if I do Hanon for 20 minutes or so before my other playing.

[Kzz]

I regret to inform you that you threw away the books that are specifically designed for this literal purpose

[saymayfire]

hanon played in every key is a great way to explore hand positions and tension. i find this a weird take (not a bad take as much as poorly worded?) as i found hanon really opened my eyes to so many technical issues because i finally didn’t have to learn so many notes for an exercise, i could just focus on my body. it was great when i was in my teens and i’m considering revisiting them

[DefektiveEnvy]

Your videos are so helpful and encouraging for me. I’ve been dealing with so much stiffness and pain in my arms unrelated to piano but it makes it harder to play piano. I’m starting to pay closer attention to how my arms feel when I’m playing and make adjustments and be able to enjoy it for longer. Hopefully this will help me preserve the function in my arms for years to come 😊 it’s amazing what a little bit of mindfulness of one’s body will do. I appreciate you dgoingin depth on this topic

[lorenzo_pianoman]

I'm now at the second year of the second year my academic course at the conservatory, so I can't teach you anything, but I can tell what I know, what you said is perfectly right but I think you also have to do "Variants, or variations" (I don't know how you call them in English), for each musical phrase. Each school has is way to teach but I can tell you this helped really really a lot both for the studies and for such virtuosistics like Listz, that need a lot of practice.
My variants are based on repetions of the phrase with different rythms, for example one note long and the second short, the opposite than one note long, 3 shorts, and the same starting from one of each of the four notes (this obviously for a 4/4). But, like I said, each school has his method

[danielx]

Hannon is there to build your strength and dexterity.

[SuperCrAzYfLiPpEr]

I aim to learn all hanon excercises. I'm gonna see how my improvs evolve after having learnt them all. As said here it's good for finger individuality, also add rules where you have to hit each key with the same dynamic or alternate, eventually add staccato, try and add phrases, sight read at the same time, also it's good for learning scales, intervals, using the weak fingers and the method for memorizing notes. In the end I believe you're not supposed to look at the piano but rather the piano in your head or remember the starting note you're on in order to feel where your fingers are on the piano.

[joshuap]

Mindlessly is correct. I learned many songs in a hurry after having already practiced basic piano for a while it wasn't mindless but I forced myself to practice them over and over even when I'd experience elbow and neck pain. Knowing that slow playing on piano and guitar can at times and most of the time in learning a knew song be more beneficial. As a personal trainer I was very surprised at the end and how great of a tip it is. Its not always about being able to play it but certain details especially for playing pain free. The angle of the wrist but also the angle of the hand and elbow and shoulder people will have different angles sometimes on both on either side depending on which side is tighter. I have big hands as well which is great for stretches some people with smaller hands say they just can't do or is very uncomfortable on guitar and piano, but can be very annoying to play in between black keys. I used to play mostly at the edge I feel much less elbow pain changing the angle of my hand and playing in between black keys and feeling the angle of my hand that allows me to fit in there and not irritate my body. Playing at edges can be fine as I did a lot but it's important to note the angles and muscles of the body as a part of playing aside from the soreness you might feel from playing and take not of the soreness you feel and make it symmetrical and see how you can use the soreness to notice what's more comfortable for you muscles and joints when playing. And mindlessly doing anything is almost always not as good as having a plan. But action can be better than overthinking if you are the type to over plan. It's a balance and having purpose to help others is the only way to realize the best way but the road is full of potholes and overthinking but again action without plan isn't always good as well and often motivated by negative interest. Anyways the end may go overs people head or sound cooky or not likely very understandable. Regardless also if you play guitar wrist angles as well. You may be able to play it and play it fast but is your wrist angle causing irritation to your body. You may want to slow it down and adjust it slightly likely to more external rotation.

[blu]

Anything that is boring will be mindless and anyone who's sat at the piano for any amount of time who's learned it will recognize that its better to learn what you want to learn and structure learning around that or just making learning more engaging will do better.

Hanon doesn't sound good, it's not fun, therefore for a lot of people its not effective. It doesn't mean the techniques aren't useful you just don't learn then when you're playing something that sounds and feel like a scale.

So it doesn't matter what it is, it's about how much you like it or want to. The less you want to the harder it will be to engage or even care.

[knuteboy]

The key word is "mindlessly". Ironically enough, I find that Hanon exercises are fantastic for working on Taubman ideas like single and double rotations, or in-and-out motions because of the repetition of the simple structures gives you ample work on cementing the Taubman ideas.

Also, Randal Faber put out out the Faber Hanon book which is an updated look at Hanon, where he removed what he felt were the most potentially harmful exercises and he's all about incorporating graceful motions that aim to release tension and avoid injury. He also discusses things like shaping and in-and-out motions which has actually helped me understand Taubman more.( I swear he must be a fan) It's a great book. It's changed my outlook on the value of Hanon exercises.

[lindareese]

Thank you for sharing this wonderful lessons with me...

[jasongallagher]

Yes, personally, I do not practice Hanon or Czerny. However, what many technical specialists don't really like to acknowledge is that learning good technique through repertoire is quite tough for children. It's asking a lot for a kid who's still building security with notation to also incorporate circular and rotary arm movements directly into new pieces. But if you use Hanon #1 to teach circular arm motions, and then transpose it to teach in/out adjustments for short fingers on black keys, it becomes far easier for the student to apply to their repertoire. Scales and arpeggios just don't teach the gesture in the same way.

[jackwalter]

Can you make a video focusing on the alignment of the arm and hand in scale playing? Great channel btw only besides the golandsky institute's channel I've seen that focuses on these ideas!

[lizl]

Mindlessly, yes. But using it to enforce healthy techniques is actually quite helpful. And transposing some exercises to different keys.

[randykern]

I learned a very long time ago that technique is not universal - our bodies are all a little different and we have to discover what works best for us. Great advice!