Hanon

Hanon, which is used very extensively in the conservatories.

Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression James Francis Cooke 1917

That's like starting a kid out on the piano with Beethoven instead of with Hanon, or studying number theory before getting around to basic arithmetic.

My mechanic Steve 2007

Practice for a musician involves all kinds of other things – like scales and arpeggios for the fluidity in the fingers and wrists, Czerny and Hanon for speed and flexibility, practicing the piece with hands apart, or starting from the back and working your way forward … in other words, we come at a piece of music from all sorts of angles in order to get it up to performance quality.

Write on Wednesday-Practice Makes Perfect 2007

There's the very real possibility that most poor polydactyl children had their extra fingers hacked off before they had a chance to crack open their Hanon.

Fingertips, part 10+x Matthew Guerrieri 2006

There's the very real possibility that most poor polydactyl children had their extra fingers hacked off before they had a chance to crack open their Hanon.

Archive 2006-10-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2006

The second Hanon exercise taught in Adult All-In-One Course: Lesson-Theory-Technic: Level 1 is not the "real" second exercise, so my teacher had me purchase the comb-bound Hanon book with the instruction to keep working on the first exercise and my two-octave scales until next Saturday.

Archive 2007-02-01 M-mv 2007

I'm working on "The Amazing Aerobics of Hanon" (p. 78 and 79 in Adult All-In-One Course: Lesson-Theory-Technic: Level 1) and will offer a polished "Edelweiss" (the second tune in Greatest Hits, Level 1) to my teacher this morning, after which we will begin "My Heart Will Go On" (the third).

Archive 2007-02-01 M-mv 2007

She did, however, seem momentarily surprised to have a student more willing to work on Hanon than on insipid movie themes.

On the nightstand M-mv 2007

In the intervening three months, I have advanced twenty pages in the course, worked on pieces in Alfred's Basic Adult All-Time Favorites and Greatest Hits, Level 1, learned the first page of an easy arrangement of "Moonlight Sonata," and managed to impress our teacher with my Hanon exercises.

Mental multivitamin M-mv 2007

I gave Hanon some half-hearted, muddy-fingered attention on Tuesday.

Archive 2007-08-01 M-mv 2007