Thank you for this video. I learned so much in a short time. I don’t know what it is, but I find Hanon and Czerny very challenging. I think it takes a part of my brain that I’m not used to tapping into. I find scales, arpeggios and inversions so much easier.
Hanon on a C. Bechstein! A few years ago, my wife and I wandered into this large piano showroom .. about 25 grand pianos on display. I asked if I may try a couple out. "Sure!", he replied. So I sat down and right there on this one piano, was the Hanon book. I went ahead and played a few of the exercises, since I'm pretty familiar with the book. Actually not a bad way to explore the feel, response, and sound of a prospective piano. Especially if you do the entire run of a few exercises, up and down the keyboard.
Just got my book today and did the first measure. My fingers already feel like they got a workout. I can feel the muscles in the fingers..lol and that's having played all last year learning and doing piano adventures up to level 5 without learning any scales very well at all. No wonder I'm so slow. Thank you. I feel confident that this will make a big difference. Thanks again for doing this. I've always wanted to play piano but never thought it was all of what it is to do it.
What he's describing at the beginning I call "marching" the fingers. There's a lot of value in that, as long as the hand position and other factors allow for optimal relaxation from the shoulder down to fingertips. A good teacher can help you achieve that. Without it, you will be limited in your speed, evenness, control and ease of playing. And it's no joke that you can develop tendonitis over time if you practice exercises with too much tension.
Hey awesome straightforward practical advice and demonstration. I’ve been feeling my way through this with no instruction and this is super helpful for where I am now in my process 🙏🏻
This is amazing, i've always had a problem of playing with my arm instead of my fingers for the past 12 years. My teacher would always tell me to play with my fingers and i would have NO idea what the heck he was talking about, you explained to me the technique and importance of something so basic in just 6 minutes for something that i needed so badly, especially why i struggle to play fast songs and why i cant play the notes lightly when the pace really quicks up. I hope that with this practice i'll be able to play songs quicker and really improve my game :)
-- Or 50 years ago actually for me..60 years ago (plus) - my first piano instructor was my grandfather. No offense to my grandfather - but Robert is incredible.
Thank you Robert, this was very helpful. I never thought about Hanon not requiring crossing over as being intentionally "built in" to the Hanon exercises. I am going to start using Hanon as my warm up rather than half way through my practice session. I am subscribing to your channel! I think its going to be very beneficial.
Thx so much, I just started playing hanon excerises yesterday and I must say their quite tricky but I have seen some change in my playing just in 1 day!
A.H. Aziz must be very good. she is right, even after playing for just 20 minutes i could play the c major scale with ease and more relaxed (which means i can go slightly faster) . I'll play these exercises in all 12 keys when i have the time
I just got the book yesterday I've been messing around on piano for about a year now (improvising, composing, learning theory) but I can't play the things that I want or think about so I'm excited to start working on this book and work on my technique.
I wish i know this years ago, my teacher always tells me im playing it wrongly but didnt tell me how to play it the right way. I had to figure out how to play it correctly myself... this is a very great video!
Funny enough I was frustrated a while ago that my fingers weren't cooperating and I started doing something similar to this as a warm-up. Little did I know I was setting myself up for success 😂 will be lovely to properly train this time
Thank you 🙏 Robert for teaching me the basics of Virtuoso Pianists Exercise 1 You are an amazing piano teacher I recommend this video to everyone who is learning Hanon’s Virtuoso Piantists Exercise 1 Once again thank you and you is what I call a professional piano teacher!
What an eventful morning. I just learned that the circle of fifths that I downloaded had a mistake for relative minors for two flat keys, which had caused some confusion for me. And then I watched this video. I am ready to rock and roll on the piano as I go into my second month of piano practice.
I recall doing Hanon with my first teacher and then of course there is still some value in doing these exercises On the other hand, there was Abby Whiteside who loathed and condemned this kind of exercise for the pianist. Now try them in several different keys ..... Peter Tario
Terrific video! Wow: Hanon on a C. Bechstein!!! Never sounded so good! Years ago when I worked on Hanon, I developed some sour relationships with roommates ..hahaha ...yeah, it'll drive listeners around the house nutz. They would all head for the door, when I pulled out my Hanon book. Great tips you shared - thanks!
There is an issue with using a digital keyboard, however. The technique and tone attainable on a proper acoustic piano is far beyond what you can obtain with a keyboard. Keyboard action is /not/ great for studying technique on.
At the beginning (beginning ascending) and the middle (around the start of the descending part) of the first several Hanon exercises I feel pain in my right and left wrists, respectively. Notice at 1:36 his left hand and forearm make a straight line, this is comfortable for me. At the same time his right forearm is angled relative to his right hand, this is quite uncomfortable for me. I get the same pain in my left wrist when I approach the middle of the exercise. How can I remedy this pain? It must be my technique. Should I be leaning my upper body on my piano stool so that I dont have to awkwardly angle my wrists or what?
I played Hanson over the years and I think , esp the first 10 exercises , strengthened my fingers , a recent teacher of mine liked other exercises better . have you ever heard a criticism that Hanon is a finger school of piano playing & other schools actually think you ought to be educating your arm , wrist , e.g. there is a rotational model , employed when playing Alberti bass for example , for which an exclusively finger strength approach is not recommended , again , according to advocates of this ' not finger only ' approach
I think it honestly depends on what you are playing and what kind of tone you want to produce. I think Hanon is useful, but other schools should not be ignored because you never know what different situations you will face in music. As for strengthening the fingers, I use a method my own piano coach taught me. I take a whole sheet of newspaper -- actually two sheets -- and crumble them each single handed with both hands. I do this once daily (or I should but I do forget). I think it has helped tremendously. My piano coach has a little Japanese student that has never touched Hanon in her life (just a lot of Bach and Mozart really) and she does this and she is FANTASTIC. Technically speaking, she is a better pianist than me (not to mention she is like 6 and I'm 21). I'm better expressiveness wise personally but finger strength never hurts for more technically demanding pieces. Everyone plays differently though. Take a gander on some books about Chopin. There are quite a few out there. Most of them will tell you that Chopin himself looked down on using the piano as a 'gym' per se. I don't think he was wrong because the music he left us today is utterly stunning to the ear if played correctly and in a natural manner which - according to his students - was a more natural approach. For pieces but Chopin, Rachmaninoff, and Liszt, an approach that demands more rotation would honestly be a lot better and would produce better results tonality wise.
This is all good and well, but my copy indicates that a quarter note should be 60bpms. The arpeggio is of eighth notes. So the exercise starts twice as fast as this recording.
Wonderful: I already started on scales, as I thought that was the most basic set of exercises I could do. I shall now do the first 10 exercises of Hanon, now that I have heard of him. I am also finding these basic Hanon exercises are helping with my start in sight reading.
In fact people often put these two (Hanon and Czerny) together when they are entirely different beasts! My analogy is: say you're a Pole Vaulter. You need specific muscle training exercises for the run, the lift off etc. These are Hanon. However, no matter how many strength exercises you do you'll never be able to Pole Vault (play the piano) if you don't practice the actual motions themselves, with runway, pole and bar. This is in part Czerny, the other part being playing actual pieces (the menuets, sonatinas etc that people usually begin with). Now also note that Czerny was a student of Beethoven, and the techniques you'll practice in his methods (some of which are quite delightful) generally cover up to that period. When/if you then move on to your Chopins and Liszts and Debussys etc, it's an entire new ballgame (well, not completely but you get my point...). Hope this helps
Its funny. Many teachers tell you to keep your fingers a bit flat in some notes of hannon so as to go further inside. But keeping them rounded and even is much easier to learn. Thanks
Also. Can you comment a bit on how you progress through a Hannon exercises. Let's say I learned 1 2 and 3. Do I want to continuously play this compounded everyday? So when I get to exercise 10 or so, I'm still playing 1-9 everyday? Thanks ahead of time.
I'm confused on the proper use of the metronome for the Hanon exercises as they were intended by the author. My book says the metronome should be used from 60 to 108. At 60, does that mean each note is played per beat of the metronome or should I be completing the entire measure within 2 beats at 60? I'm a beginner and have no clue. I was practicing at 60 bpm with one note per beat but it's too slow and tedious. I feel like I'm just not understanding the metronome thing. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Practice at one note to the beat four times in a row, then two notes to the beat, also four times, and then four notes to the beat many times. You can use progressively faster metronome speeds getting from two notes to the beat to four notes to the beat if necessary.
@@LivingPianosVideos Thank you very much! That sounds like a good plan. That way I'm not getting bogged down in all the details and worrying about this or that tempo.
I haven't played in about 10 years, so I got a new copy of hanon to get back into it. It says (M. M. crotchet 60 - 108) and I was like, how in the shit am I going to play semi quavers at 108? I get it now
Hi. I think I didn't get the whole point of it yet. It seems like I have to play the first exercise on the 60 bpm tempo x 4, which is 240 bpm. (and it is just to begin with!) So, is it the right way I am picking it up? Or am I being completely wrong at it?
Wonderful - really helpful. Please could you help us with 39 to 46. I am having a hard time practicing scales, arpedios, scales in contrary montion and so forward. Cant memorize and finish the book. Really appreciate.
Hey, thank you so much for your videos. I have a question, should I play hannon in all the scales at the same practice time? For example if I practice the first exercise for one week, during this week I play all the scales every day?
Usually this means that your wrist isn't relaxed enough. The wrist is meant to be very flexible - there should be no tension whatsoever. If your wrist hurts, try to focus on making sure it's completely relaxed at all times.
If you're tense, you're doing something wrong. If your fingers/wrists hurt you're almost certainly doing something wrong. Often the culprit is not moving your hands around proactively when anticipating hitting the next set of keys. Try doing rotation exercises, there's so many of them available on UA-cam. Good luck!
I've been browsing around a lot; I think I may be playing with a bit too much "low tension", the type of tension that I use nigh constantly when (slowly or) precisely moving my mouse (mostly inwards, concentrated). But, the pain is mostly some deep, soft ache across my forearms, I barely feel anything in my wrists. Also of note, this is my third day of piano and I only played like 3-4 hours total, and lifting my arms and then bringing them down actually tires my muscles a bit because I don't lift much or carry heavy things often; mostly just sit at my keyboard and type a lot. So, i'm not sure, yes my technique can probably be better but is this really not just some muscle ache that I have to train or is it that my high amount of typing every day combined with a heavy digital piano (kawai's keys are pretty heavy) is actually causing damage?
I am 50 and started playing some 6-7 months back. Had around 24 lessons so far. Bought Hannon's Virtuoso Pianist a few months back on my own initiative but didn't try to play. Was trying it out this morning but was stumped by the recommended tempo. Thus seeking clarification. It seems that the music is in a series of semi-quavers, and the tempo suggetsed is 60bpm - crotchets. So if the metronome tempo is 60 bpm of crotchets (at the slowest), it means 240 semi-quaver notes per minute. Am I right?!! How is that "beginner" stuff? Playing 240 notes per minute!! Or am I getting it all wrong?
Very useful! It's helpful to tell your students WHY certain rules exist...to save them the trouble of learning it the hard way (especially if they are a stubborn, know-it-all student like myself) :-)
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Thank you for this video. I learned so much in a short time.
I don’t know what it is, but I find Hanon and Czerny very challenging. I think it takes a part of my brain that I’m not used to tapping into.
I find scales, arpeggios and inversions so much easier.
Hanon on a C. Bechstein!
A few years ago, my wife and I wandered into this large piano showroom .. about 25 grand pianos on display. I asked if I may try a couple out. "Sure!", he replied. So I sat down and right there on this one piano, was the Hanon book. I went ahead and played a few of the exercises, since I'm pretty familiar with the book. Actually not a bad way to explore the feel, response, and sound of a prospective piano. Especially if you do the entire run of a few exercises, up and down the keyboard.
Just got my book today and did the first measure. My fingers already feel like they got a workout. I can feel the muscles in the fingers..lol and that's having played all last year learning and doing piano adventures up to level 5 without learning any scales very well at all. No wonder I'm so slow. Thank you. I feel confident that this will make a big difference. Thanks again for doing this. I've always wanted to play piano but never thought it was all of what it is to do it.
What he's describing at the beginning I call "marching" the fingers. There's a lot of value in that, as long as the hand position and other factors allow for optimal relaxation from the shoulder down to fingertips. A good teacher can help you achieve that. Without it, you will be limited in your speed, evenness, control and ease of playing. And it's no joke that you can develop tendonitis over time if you practice exercises with too much tension.
Hey awesome straightforward practical advice and demonstration. I’ve been feeling my way through this with no instruction and this is super helpful for where I am now in my process 🙏🏻
Beautiful piano’s all around him,Hanon must be great lessons to get started.
Thank you, Robert! Brilliant demonstration and explanation! I have practiced Hanon for years. Now I know how to do it absolutely correctly.
This is amazing, i've always had a problem of playing with my arm instead of my fingers for the past 12 years. My teacher would always tell me to play with my fingers and i would have NO idea what the heck he was talking about, you explained to me the technique and importance of something so basic in just 6 minutes for something that i needed so badly, especially why i struggle to play fast songs and why i cant play the notes lightly when the pace really quicks up. I hope that with this practice i'll be able to play songs quicker and really improve my game :)
Wild Gengar I play a bit too much from the fingers 😅 phrasing issues ehrm
Wild Gengar your right tr. reminds me now i know
Bloody hell 12 years!
So how's your piano playing now my friend?
Dang, imagine if the teacher could have just explained. smh
Thank you! How helpful these videos are. Imagine studying the piano 80 years ago...
Yeah i agree with you. Piano seems to be for the rich, more so in the past. Today the barriers are being lowered
-- Or 50 years ago actually for me..60 years ago (plus) - my first piano instructor was my grandfather. No offense to my grandfather - but Robert is incredible.
Thank you Robert, this was very helpful. I never thought about Hanon not requiring crossing over as being intentionally "built in" to the Hanon exercises. I am going to start using Hanon as my warm up rather than half way through my practice session. I am subscribing to your channel! I think its going to be very beneficial.
thank you! the way you speak makes it so easy for me to understand
Hanon is also important for jazz pianists as a daily warm-up method before practice
Nice tip on putting these ahead of scales.
Thx so much, I just started playing hanon excerises yesterday and I must say their quite tricky but I have seen some change in my playing just in 1 day!
How is your playing after 6 years now?
A.H. Aziz must be very good. she is right, even after playing for just 20 minutes i could play the c major scale with ease and more relaxed (which means i can go slightly faster) . I'll play these exercises in all 12 keys when i have the time
@@Shichwa She probably quit years ago 🤣
maybe she returned in the last 3 years?
What an amazing teacher !
This is what i call piano teacher!
A great teacher with a passion for teaching what he loves.
It shows through in every video.
Thank you Maestro!!
I just got the book yesterday I've been messing around on piano for about a year now (improvising, composing, learning theory) but I can't play the things that I want or think about so I'm excited to start working on this book and work on my technique.
How's it going?
Thank you so much for this video! I thought the book meant play every note staccato and I was having a hard time but this makes so much more sense!
Thank you for speaking so clearly!!!
I love the way you speak
No homo?
You are an amazing teacher! Thank you👍
I wish i know this years ago, my teacher always tells me im playing it wrongly but didnt tell me how to play it the right way. I had to figure out how to play it correctly myself... this is a very great video!
When you want the house to yourself.
😂 it’s certainly NOT musical.
Funny enough I was frustrated a while ago that my fingers weren't cooperating and I started doing something similar to this as a warm-up. Little did I know I was setting myself up for success 😂 will be lovely to properly train this time
Thank you for the lesson.
Very fine info from a mature, talented and gifted teacher!
Amazing!! Really helpful and the explanation is very good! I was using straight fingers all the time! Thanks a lot!!
What a wonderful and clear explanation. Brilliant teacher
u r a great piano teacher😊 seriously..👍👍
Thank you 🙏 Robert for teaching me the basics of Virtuoso Pianists Exercise 1
You are an amazing piano teacher
I recommend this video to everyone who is learning Hanon’s Virtuoso Piantists Exercise 1
Once again thank you and you is what I call a professional piano teacher!
wow. I love this song. I’m learning this already. It sounds beautiful...
I no right even more beautiful then rach 3!?!?!?!?@?@??!
I wish I could be one of your students 😔 Awesome piano teacher. Thank you!
Me too....
What an eventful morning. I just learned that the circle of fifths that I downloaded had a mistake for relative minors for two flat keys, which had caused some confusion for me. And then I watched this video.
I am ready to rock and roll on the piano as I go into my second month of piano practice.
I recall doing Hanon with my first teacher and then of course there is still some value in doing these exercises On the other hand, there was Abby Whiteside who loathed and condemned this kind of exercise for the pianist. Now try them in several different keys .....
Peter Tario
I'm looking foward to seeing your next video on scales.
These are great videos Robert. Thank you very much.... they are all well made and your enthusiasm for the music shows.
Brought back a lot of (mostly) good memories. Glee Mack, R.I.P.
Thanks! Helpful to my son who has been giving lack-luster effort to the 1st exercise. I think he really wasn't sure what the point is!
Super. Dziękuję za cenne wskazówki.
Great video. I just bought the book on your recommendation, too!
Terrific video! Wow: Hanon on a C. Bechstein!!! Never sounded so good! Years ago when I worked on Hanon, I developed some sour relationships with roommates ..hahaha ...yeah, it'll drive listeners around the house nutz. They would all head for the door, when I pulled out my Hanon book. Great tips you shared - thanks!
+Anvanho :: That's the beauty of a digital keyboard! Plug in the headphones and you can practice for hours without anybody knowing.
There is an issue with using a digital keyboard, however. The technique and tone attainable on a proper acoustic piano is far beyond what you can obtain with a keyboard. Keyboard action is /not/ great for studying technique on.
What? You said terrific then never sounded so good.. How is the possible?
You can say Hanon is hands on.....
Thank you for your advices, great video
Thanks a lot Mr.Robert.
Great video thanks.
A lesson of extraordinary value for future pianists .... thumb up + sub
Thanks for all your videos! IT helps everyones with piano's exercises. Thank you!! :D
thank you
I like your voice :) and thank you for all of your great videos 🎹🎶
Many thanks this was/is very helpful.Yes I subscribed to learn And to listen as I learn.
❤❤❤thank you so very much 💖
At the beginning (beginning ascending) and the middle (around the start of the descending part) of the first several Hanon exercises I feel pain in my right and left wrists, respectively. Notice at 1:36 his left hand and forearm make a straight line, this is comfortable for me. At the same time his right forearm is angled relative to his right hand, this is quite uncomfortable for me. I get the same pain in my left wrist when I approach the middle of the exercise. How can I remedy this pain? It must be my technique. Should I be leaning my upper body on my piano stool so that I dont have to awkwardly angle my wrists or what?
Thank you.
Terrific! I look forward to your video on scales.
I played Hanson over the years and I think , esp the first 10 exercises , strengthened my fingers , a recent teacher of mine liked other exercises better . have you ever heard a criticism that Hanon is a finger school of piano playing & other schools actually think you ought to be educating your arm , wrist , e.g. there is a rotational model , employed when playing Alberti bass for example , for which an exclusively finger strength approach is not recommended , again , according to advocates of this ' not finger only ' approach
I think it honestly depends on what you are playing and what kind of tone you want to produce. I think Hanon is useful, but other schools should not be ignored because you never know what different situations you will face in music. As for strengthening the fingers, I use a method my own piano coach taught me. I take a whole sheet of newspaper -- actually two sheets -- and crumble them each single handed with both hands. I do this once daily (or I should but I do forget). I think it has helped tremendously. My piano coach has a little Japanese student that has never touched Hanon in her life (just a lot of Bach and Mozart really) and she does this and she is FANTASTIC. Technically speaking, she is a better pianist than me (not to mention she is like 6 and I'm 21). I'm better expressiveness wise personally but finger strength never hurts for more technically demanding pieces. Everyone plays differently though. Take a gander on some books about Chopin. There are quite a few out there. Most of them will tell you that Chopin himself looked down on using the piano as a 'gym' per se. I don't think he was wrong because the music he left us today is utterly stunning to the ear if played correctly and in a natural manner which - according to his students - was a more natural approach.
For pieces but Chopin, Rachmaninoff, and Liszt, an approach that demands more rotation would honestly be a lot better and would produce better results tonality wise.
This is all good and well, but my copy indicates that a quarter note should be 60bpms. The arpeggio is of eighth notes. So the exercise starts twice as fast as this recording.
He kind of looks like Mark Hamill.
+Nick D'Amato Exactly what I thought :D
Hanon teaches the ways of the force
The forte is strong with this one.
And yet he's playing Hanon solo...
I sit down with the full Hanon book in front of me: "I have a bad feeling about this."
Thank you for your advice
Yes..he is great.
Subscribed, Sir!
Wonderful: I already started on scales, as I thought that was the most basic set of exercises I could do. I shall now do the first 10 exercises of Hanon, now that I have heard of him. I am also finding these basic Hanon exercises are helping with my start in sight reading.
Videocamera carefully aimed so that i cannot see the serial number on that old Bechstein. Mid 1920's model?
Thanks.
What about drop and roll exercises in Hanon?
What about the Czerny piano exercises/etudes? Are they as good as Hanon exercises/etudes?
+miserere psalm Czerny etudes are not simply repeated patterns, they are much more "musical" than Hanon ones.
In fact people often put these two (Hanon and Czerny) together when they are entirely different beasts! My analogy is: say you're a Pole Vaulter. You need specific muscle training exercises for the run, the lift off etc. These are Hanon. However, no matter how many strength exercises you do you'll never be able to Pole Vault (play the piano) if you don't practice the actual motions themselves, with runway, pole and bar. This is in part Czerny, the other part being playing actual pieces (the menuets, sonatinas etc that people usually begin with). Now also note that Czerny was a student of Beethoven, and the techniques you'll practice in his methods (some of which are quite delightful) generally cover up to that period. When/if you then move on to your Chopins and Liszts and Debussys etc, it's an entire new ballgame (well, not completely but you get my point...). Hope this helps
Hi can to tell me 2 octaves fingerings no for pentatonic scales
I play hanon too!
Its funny. Many teachers tell you to keep your fingers a bit flat in some notes of hannon so as to go further inside. But keeping them rounded and even is much easier to learn. Thanks
Great!! Thanks a Lot God bless Thee!!
That was such a great help!!!
Very helpful.
this guy is amazing
Notice how difficult it is to hear the metronome while he is playing! Why? Because he is playing so accurately!
Also. Can you comment a bit on how you progress through a Hannon exercises. Let's say I learned 1 2 and 3. Do I want to continuously play this compounded everyday? So when I get to exercise 10 or so, I'm still playing 1-9 everyday? Thanks ahead of time.
Awesome, muchas gracias,
Thank you so much a beginner
I wish you had this video 30 years ago
Really you understood well and you are a great teacher...
Thank you for this video 😁
I'm confused on the proper use of the metronome for the Hanon exercises as they were intended by the author. My book says the metronome should be used from 60 to 108. At 60, does that mean each note is played per beat of the metronome or should I be completing the entire measure within 2 beats at 60? I'm a beginner and have no clue. I was practicing at 60 bpm with one note per beat but it's too slow and tedious. I feel like I'm just not understanding the metronome thing. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Practice at one note to the beat four times in a row, then two notes to the beat, also four times, and then four notes to the beat many times. You can use progressively faster metronome speeds getting from two notes to the beat to four notes to the beat if necessary.
@@LivingPianosVideos Thank you very much! That sounds like a good plan. That way I'm not getting bogged down in all the details and worrying about this or that tempo.
i get the finger strength part but overall this bad technique, no?
For slow practice, raised fingers helps you delineate the precise release of notes. As you play faster, you must keep your fingers close to the keys.
@@LivingPianosVideos thank you
Thank you sir, now i know the reason why .
I haven't played in about 10 years, so I got a new copy of hanon to get back into it. It says (M. M. crotchet 60 - 108) and I was like, how in the shit am I going to play semi quavers at 108? I get it now
Hi. I think I didn't get the whole point of it yet. It seems like I have to play the first exercise on the 60 bpm tempo x 4, which is 240 bpm. (and it is just to begin with!) So, is it the right way I am picking it up? Or am I being completely wrong at it?
Had the same doubt
excelent teacher
hatss off u sir :) thank u soo much
Is there a Hanon Exercise app available for iPadOS or iOS?
Wonderful - really helpful. Please could you help us with 39 to 46. I am having a hard time practicing scales, arpedios, scales in contrary montion and so forward. Cant memorize and finish the book. Really appreciate.
Hey, thank you so much for your videos.
I have a question, should I play hannon in all the scales at the same practice time? For example if I practice the first exercise for one week, during this week I play all the scales every day?
Wonderful - really helpful. Please help us with 39 to 46.
Nice
Is it normal the muscles in your wrist tend to cramp after awhile when beginner? or am i doing something wrong? :$
Usually this means that your wrist isn't relaxed enough. The wrist is meant to be very flexible - there should be no tension whatsoever. If your wrist hurts, try to focus on making sure it's completely relaxed at all times.
You're dying go seek help
If you're tense, you're doing something wrong. If your fingers/wrists hurt you're almost certainly doing something wrong. Often the culprit is not moving your hands around proactively when anticipating hitting the next set of keys. Try doing rotation exercises, there's so many of them available on UA-cam. Good luck!
I've been browsing around a lot; I think I may be playing with a bit too much "low tension", the type of tension that I use nigh constantly when (slowly or) precisely moving my mouse (mostly inwards, concentrated). But, the pain is mostly some deep, soft ache across my forearms, I barely feel anything in my wrists.
Also of note, this is my third day of piano and I only played like 3-4 hours total, and lifting my arms and then bringing them down actually tires my muscles a bit because I don't lift much or carry heavy things often; mostly just sit at my keyboard and type a lot. So, i'm not sure, yes my technique can probably be better but is this really not just some muscle ache that I have to train or is it that my high amount of typing every day combined with a heavy digital piano (kawai's keys are pretty heavy) is actually causing damage?
I just finished Beyer and Czerny op.599, can someone tell me what book is good for me after this? Should I do Hanon?
keep playing czerny op. 823, 849, 299, 636 and 740
I am 50 and started playing some 6-7 months back. Had around 24 lessons so far. Bought Hannon's Virtuoso Pianist a few months back on my own initiative but didn't try to play. Was trying it out this morning but was stumped by the recommended tempo. Thus seeking clarification. It seems that the music is in a series of semi-quavers, and the tempo suggetsed is 60bpm -
crotchets. So if the metronome tempo is 60 bpm of crotchets (at the slowest), it means 240 semi-quaver notes per minute. Am I right?!! How is that "beginner" stuff? Playing 240 notes per minute!!
Or am I getting it all wrong?
SUBIR NAG a minute is alot of time.... imagine, 60 sec and 4 notes per second! this is easy
Vladislav Koshelev
I can't imagine myself playing 4 notes! per round. I wonder how many beginners play at that speed.
❤❤❤
I can play very well
2:51 we all have been there
The first song is “The Lame Duck”
Should we do this exercise in All 12 keys or just C?
All 12 keys is recommended
You should do it with all tonalities.
when should you move on to exercise 2?
If u are a really beginner do 1 ex and after 2 days move to another
Very useful! It's helpful to tell your students WHY certain rules exist...to save them the trouble of learning it the hard way (especially if they are a stubborn, know-it-all student like myself) :-)