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.
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
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).
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 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!
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.
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
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.
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 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!
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.
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 💜🙏🏻
Nice presentation of a well controlled and relaxed practice. It would be extra helpful to clarify in comment the different rhythms and touch variations :)
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.
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 😁
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.
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.
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 - !
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...
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 ！
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.
In addition to Hanon, I warm up with an over-emotional piece of liebrastrum no3 with loads of wrong notes. All the jumps really get you warmed (like seriously I was sweating)
(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)
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.
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.
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?
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 ?
are the black sheets in front of you references for the rhythms? do you know if they're available online? i want to take up this warmup routine but its hard to memorize all the rhythms
Hi! Good day your post on you tube is so informative as a keyboard player it helps me a lot. I used to play my style a chord on left hand and a melody on my right hand, is appropriate in a 61keys and it don't sound well. Need some help.
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
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
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).
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!
You are the piano teacher I've never had. Thank you.
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!
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Soooo satisfying watching you do all of these rhythms!
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Thanks
Omg I've been stabbing staccato keys for years. The jumping off the note advice is gold for me!
You made me appreciate the benefit of Warming Up. I usually don't but will begin to do it. thanks.
i luv the rhythmic practicees!!!❤❤❤
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!
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.
Fantastic video. Eye opener for warm ups. I want to use this everyday now !!
You are great, young lady! Besides being a great musician, you are a great teacher! Greetings from Brazil!
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.
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
You’ve got me hooked. I’ve learnt something from every one of your videos. That is an achievement 🙂
"Focussing my body,
Create the rhythm through your body,
Impulse from stomach and
Relax."
Great.
Really helpful for me.
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
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.
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. 😍
Absolutely brilliant warm up advice!
your videos are great, having the additional captions on screen is really helpful as well
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!
Very useful video! Could you please do a video explaining the rythms you use for this exercise? Thank you 😊
Can't way to get a properer piano. I'm learning so much more about piano thanks to you.
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.
This is the video I needed to watch, you are wonderful! I use the Hanon exercises and I warm up with them. Thank you.
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
J adore votre façon de faire comprendre comment absorber l intuition qui est en nous le piano je t❤️
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 💜🙏🏻
This adds spice to Hanon! Thank you!
Wishing you all the very best and thank you for all the time you take to share your process. Stay safe. 🤗🙏🏼🎹 Angelo
Your voice is perfect!
Nice presentation of a well controlled and relaxed practice. It would be extra helpful to clarify in comment the different rhythms and touch variations :)
Very nice video , thank you for sharing this 🌿
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.
Na, richtig, so SUPER Annique!
Hanons help a lot with fluidity in the fingers!
It makes me think to ballet dancers, doing their bar exercices every morning. It is the same for pianists :)
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 😁
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.
Hi annique, can you make a video on wrist/arm movement, or how to release tension in our arm/wrist?
Thank you for the tips and daily warm-up routine.
🥰Thank you for this teaching, it is very helpful.
Soon i will have my piano to then i can practice.
Greeting from Netherland.
Muito bom. Eu muitas vezes sinto dores no meu pulso principalmente no esquerdo porque não aqueço antes de começar. Vou começar a fazer isso.
Thanks for a great lession...
😁😁😁
I enjoy very much your lessons. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
The video on Hanon was very helpful, things my teacher never mentioned...that was 40years ago.
Cool, thanks! By the way, I like your slippers😉
Hola...Gracias por el consejo...
😊🎹🎶
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.
What an amazing video in so many ways, thank you
You are amazing, greetings from México
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 - !
Hi, How do you practice speed? Don't you do scales during your warm-up ? Thanks
I love watching your videos just for relaxation and inspiration 🤭🤭 I'm just a piano beginner...
OMG, you look amazing! Congrats.
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.
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 ！
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.
I love your rhythm ideas 💡 😍 💙 ❤ 💕.
In addition to Hanon, I warm up with an over-emotional piece of liebrastrum no3 with loads of wrong notes. All the jumps really get you warmed (like seriously I was sweating)
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???
Thank you very much. Your tips help me a lot.
Hey what exercises do you do for octaves
You are sooooooo talented 👍😘
beautiful
thanks for that video!
(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)
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
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.
Beautiful.... Tips
My God !! You are so talented and beautiful ☺☺
More beauty here than talent.
Thanks..very useful
Hi Annique, what exercises do you recommend from Hannon before starting a study session?
❤ wonderful!
Thank you for tips and wwArmup
Hannon Rules and Rocks !!!!
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
Excellent, thank you!
Wow very interesting! I really like it
I also use Hanon as warm up, but i will do them in B major, D-b major, F# minor and E-b minor.
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 like your teaching ,I love your beauty
The beauty is far stronger than the teaching.
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.
Is there a link I could go to with the rhythms notated for a better visual representation.
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.
I like to play piano every day ❤-Chopin❤
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 ?
What do you think about BASTIEN method? I am just a beginner? Think you so much.
Can you make a video about the excercises, please ?
are the black sheets in front of you references for the rhythms? do you know if they're available online? i want to take up this warmup routine but its hard to memorize all the rhythms
Do you practice more than once a day? Do you warm up before each one?
Hi! Good day your post on you tube is so informative as a keyboard player it helps me a lot. I used to play my style a chord on left hand and a melody on my right hand, is appropriate in a 61keys and it don't sound well. Need some help.
Have you ever tried Dohnanyi finger exercises?
The second best ever! AFTER Brahms 51 exercises.
Amazing! Thanks for sharing.