Very thoughtful analysis. I never spend too much time playing these or any other piano exercises. As you said, it is all about keeping a balance with playing exercises, resting and playing real music. I hold the belief that Hanon exercises serve as an excellent means for warming up and enhancing the muscles' coordination and strength in the fingers, consequently leading to improved finger independence, wrist stability, and forearm strength. Thanks for your advise.
Yeah this is a pretty balanced essay. Of course we’re very much in agreement about spending more practice time with *gasp* ACTUAL MUSIC? But I can understand particularly for beginners that it might be frustrating to attempt to play actual music and have it not feel all that musical; the mechanical nature of warmups make them easy to internalize and build some confidence/control over your fingers and get used to internalizing basic rhythms with a metronome. Also The Hanon marathon competition sounds almost crazier than an actual marathon.
🎯 Absolutely. Everybody’s looking for that catch-all etude that will prepare them for any music they might tackle in the future. But it just doesn’t work like that. You learn the thing by doing it!
You made a good point on this one. Good job - I knew you had it in you. Still hoping you’ll make a Jazz Improve Hanon. You might change the world of music. People might then be disparaging you in 100 years, “ugh, Slatko exercises- what’s the point?! “ I agree with your criticisms. Locked hands is ok once in awhile. But yeah, it’s repetitive as cats.
Thanks for this video. I have the Hanon with 40 exercises, but haven't gone far with them. I'm not that musical and so I have to really get music in my head. I have several patients that are musicians so I am picking their brains to help me get music in my head....instead of Beethoven's tinnitus. I did learn something that I had never done. I never sightread scales exercises. So I started back with C and A minor. I went to the back of the book, and they have two sharp notes on the A minor scale!! Mon Dieu, WTF? I wrote to the Paris Concervatory since they put this out, I'm waiting for an answer. By the way, I have a video for exercises for the low back, as well as for shoulders, arms and hands. Maybe I should do some more videos where I explain them in more detail. But I'm no videographer. My daughter is too busy making films. ua-cam.com/video/tK9sc0ckSpw/v-deo.html
It might be the melodic minor scale. In addition to the “natural minor” scale, there is also harmonic minor and natural minor. Melodic minor would raise the 6th and 7th notes a half step so that would be f# and g#…I’m guessing that’s what you’ve discovered.
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Very thoughtful analysis. I never spend too much time playing these or any other piano exercises. As you said, it is all about keeping a balance with playing exercises, resting and playing real music. I hold the belief that Hanon exercises serve as an excellent means for warming up and enhancing the muscles' coordination and strength in the fingers, consequently leading to improved finger independence, wrist stability, and forearm strength. Thanks for your advise.
Yeah this is a pretty balanced essay. Of course we’re very much in agreement about spending more practice time with *gasp* ACTUAL MUSIC? But I can understand particularly for beginners that it might be frustrating to attempt to play actual music and have it not feel all that musical; the mechanical nature of warmups make them easy to internalize and build some confidence/control over your fingers and get used to internalizing basic rhythms with a metronome. Also The Hanon marathon competition sounds almost crazier than an actual marathon.
🎯 Absolutely. Everybody’s looking for that catch-all etude that will prepare them for any music they might tackle in the future. But it just doesn’t work like that. You learn the thing by doing it!
You made a good point on this one. Good job - I knew you had it in you.
Still hoping you’ll make a Jazz Improve Hanon. You might change the world of music.
People might then be disparaging you in 100 years, “ugh, Slatko exercises- what’s the point?! “
I agree with your criticisms. Locked hands is ok once in awhile. But yeah, it’s repetitive as cats.
MOOOORE diatonic thirds
Thanks for this video. I have the Hanon with 40 exercises, but haven't gone far with them. I'm not that musical and so I have to really get music in my head. I have several patients that are musicians so I am picking their brains to help me get music in my head....instead of Beethoven's tinnitus.
I did learn something that I had never done. I never sightread scales exercises. So I started back with C and A minor. I went to the back of the book, and they have two sharp notes on the A minor scale!! Mon Dieu, WTF? I wrote to the Paris Concervatory since they put this out, I'm waiting for an answer.
By the way, I have a video for exercises for the low back, as well as for shoulders, arms and hands. Maybe I should do some more videos where I explain them in more detail. But I'm no videographer. My daughter is too busy making films.
ua-cam.com/video/tK9sc0ckSpw/v-deo.html
It might be the melodic minor scale. In addition to the “natural minor” scale, there is also harmonic minor and natural minor. Melodic minor would raise the 6th and 7th notes a half step so that would be f# and g#…I’m guessing that’s what you’ve discovered.