6 Exercises and Etudes Better Than Hanon (part 1)

[@ScarletteFiesci]

I agree with Quinn. I hate it when people outwardly spontaneously criticise Hanon and it's purpose of use. I agree there are other practice exercises which can be completed in addition and one shouldn't exclude the other but frankly this doesn't mean that Hanon doesn't have its place in your practice. I would also like to point out that I enjoyed this video and have subscribed, however, it wasn't pointed out where to find all of these exercises which would have been helpful.

[@sherrajah]

Anyone know which book these exercises will be found? Thanks

[@11kwright]

Ooh, I like this very much. I’m going to do this more often as I do it sometimes intuitively. I mirror my right hand with my left hand. Love this video. So pleased I happened upon it.😊

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

Merci for this. I subscribed to your channel.

[@TheSagejunioro]

I perfectly understand what hannon intends to do for us...... With hannon it's not just about strong fingers but it's about what you hear when you do the exercises.... When mastered hannon fully once you play on different keys you will automatically try to replicate the sounds you heard in those excersises ..........hannon gives you a vast amount of variations within the melody of the key...........so hannon is very good for the student who understands why he's learning hannon...... It's a foundation for playing like a boss..... After mastering hannon you are expected to appropriate what you know into whatever music you are trying to play be it in whatever key you are in....it's all about the sounds you hear..... It will help you in licks and runs and it will help you to be creative.... Now the problem I have with your own training is that it's giving off an incoherent sound so to speak.... The sounds are mainly random ..... This would not help in being creative but it may help with coordination etc..... To make a long story short. Master hannon....it will definitely go a very long way if you are true to yourself.....cheers

[@quinnfoster703]

For everyone bashing Hannon. Yes Hannon can be repetitive and feel robotic, but it is not meant to be an end all exercise. It is very good at starting your finger independence, stamina, wrist strength and over all your skill. This doesn't mean it excels in all areas so do look for other ways of practice; however don't turn down the skills it can give you.

[@rhoiesundolan6560]

👍

[@rogercarroll2551]

Get moe out of Hanon by transposing into other keys. Get off the C major fixation.

[@Kikolonius]

I learned with czerny and I'm pretty happy with it

[@casandrafroya]

Great pace and style of teaching, as well as amazing exercises! This has helped me a lot. Keep up the good work.

[@yuxia5989]

What would you recommend instead

[@YTcmtr]

KZbin recommends me Hannon KZbin, just after: Forget about Hannon, this is better than Hannon

[@SvenCherry007]

This is my exact situation

[@NeilBarton-m6z]

Hanon is amazing. I think in need to do a video showing why because the internet is filling up with so called experts totally missing the point. Grrrrrr

[@RyanSlatkoMusic]

Knock yourself out! 👍

[@geoshebalin2693]

I’d sure like to get a hold of the Dohnanyi you mentioned. Nice thinking outside the box.

[@normasonnentag9686]

This looks intriguing. Thanks for sharing. Can’t wait to try these exercises.

[@bradsims5116]

Practice is not playing music. The person has to separate playing and Practice. I love hannon !

[@meropale]

I love Hanon. I understand why people hate it but if you use it correctly then your regular pieces will really have a new life and edge to them. The only analogy I can think is that a dancer still needs to stretch and strengthen muscles in order for the body to remain supple, flexible and strong. You need that in order to for your body to express what you want it to. I can tell a difference in my "normal" playing when I do and don't use Hanon.

[@mthwyang]

Interesting - I have been using the mirror image practice a lot…using my dominant hand to “teach” my weaker hand. Thanks for sharing.

[@javierbiaggi3072]

After you master the Hannon exercises you humanized them; that's, change the articulations, the timing, and the dynamics.

[@UnPureMaddness]

You def deserve more views!!

[@Jazzmaster58]

I went through what you're talking about, that is, to rely to much on Hanon. Anyway, Hanon is just one book and half of it is scales arpeggios and other exercises that are not like the first half of the book meaning the parallel hand movement and you can always invent things like playing on the 12 keys or in intervals. Don't misunderstand me, I play Jazz and what you're saying is pertinent, it is a danger, practicing vices of any sort. Nice work

[@baguiobase4713]

This is indeed very useful and informative

[@raphaelzapp9204]

Great stuff! Do you have or know a ressource for the first finger independence excercise? (5:25) Would be great, thanks.

[@worrellrobinson4332]

Hey there thank you for your suggestions regarding piano exercise and finger independence scales appeggio (would be nice to what you did in a complete book like Hanon) stay blessed and fantastic.

[@yuxia5989]

I don’t understand the first exercise, isn’t these exercises makes your hands less independent since the fingering is exactly the same for both?

[@RyanSlatkoMusic]

Not hand independence, finger independence. Both hands are playing the same notes but the fingerings are different, and the point of those exercises is to work different pairs and groupings of fingers. If you try these out yourself, you’ll see what I mean.

[@yuxia5989]

@@RyanSlatkoMusic I don’t think I get what you mean by “different fingering”, it’s mirrored, so it’s exactly the same fingering left and right isn’t it…if it’s not a mirror but similar motion say a scale, then left hand start with 5 and right hand start with 1

[@ChristinaIgupen]

This is a great lesson it is useful. I learned a lot.

[@tropicvibe]

When I first studied about 30 yrs ago Hanon had been recommended by my teacher who was quite gifted. Naturally I wanted to reach that same level and dove into it. With a title like "Virtuoso Pianist" who wouldn't? Even so, never went through the entire book as I was more concerned with scales and arpeggios which Hanon also covers. I won't lie though after practicing some Hanon for a few weeks my fingers were indeed stronger and more accurate but once again lost interest from lack of melodic material. There have been some works published by pianists where they've taken the 1st few exercises and turned them into playable melodic pieces weaving in and out of diatonic/chromatic keys. Some have included 7th chords and other intervals to increase keyboard familiarity but of course a beginner would not be attempting such material. I'm not here to recommend anything to anyone, these are all useful tools while we're on our journey.

[@jimkost2002]

Yo Ryan, I just discovered your channel and you are a GREAT teacher! Do you have a link to the Rosamunde book and where you can find or buy it online?

[@dsthorp]

Practice technique with mind, heart, and soul.

[@pianoforks8607]

Bro if I'm not mistaken the first exercise that you showed was invented by Fredric Chopin himself 💜

[@hippophile]

My thought exactly!

[@maduroholdings]

I wish I could like this video 2xs

[@evmafo9300]

Where can I get the sheet music for these exercises?

[@Cborda]

2:28 3:11 4:03 4:15

[@fellasg]

Do you have a copy of these exercises? Thanks

[@RyanSlatkoMusic]

Most of them are available on imslp.org!

[@fellasg]

As you featured a few exercise, where can I locate all of them in imslp?

[@sherrajah]

@@RyanSlatkoMusic Hi very informative video - please can you provide the link or title of the exercises so we can get them from imslp.org. This would make your teaching far more accessible. Cheers

[@hcsquad7357]

Ha you're a Jazz pianist, you didn't get into classical deep enough so you said Hanon is bad

[@hike21]

could be more useful if you could write the finger numbers patterns on the music. It's kinda difficult to see watching at the speed you playing. Probably just me ..... might state the obvious. thanks anyway

[@anon2030]

He needs to add synthesia to show the fingering.

[@larryjackson2721]

Excellent tutorial. I keep hearing "the licc" in there, for some odd reason, though...maybe it's jsut me...:)

[@malingehring165]

finger independence....

[@nomadfc4342]

Yeah no I'm a beginner so everything beyond the first one is pretty much impossible

[@Violinna]

Interesting exercises. Thank you fot sharing. Also your melodic minor descending is missing flat 7ths😉 least you can so is demonstrate scale correctly... lol

[@RyanSlatkoMusic]

Thanks! We don’t do that descending thing in jazz

[@Violinna]

@@RyanSlatkoMusic jazz world is weird to us classical musicians😅that's very interesting -but I can hear how that would make sense to separate the two modes for improv

[@markbra]

Why does your camera keep zooming in and out. It's anoying.

[@Yussnan84.]

Is that an U1 or U3?

[@ИвоТодор]

This is nonsense 😂😂😂

[@TheSagejunioro]

😁

[@rishim6816]

It seems you just started. My 2 cents as a subscriber - you try to make it very interesting with a lot of stuff other than the expected content. How you speak is interesting enough, adding other stuff makes it boring for someone who is watching your video for some specific skill. There are other resources on KZbin if one wants to get entertained. You know what I mean :)

[@arunkarthikma3121]

Respectfully, I disagree... In my opinion, most of this information is still related to the teaching matter, giving context to the lesson, and entertaining as well. There is already a vast number of obscure piano videos, many of which focus purely on tutorials. This is also the reason I subscribed. Just look at popular music channels like Adam Neely or 12tone: they are able to appeal to wide audiences, often with discussion-based video essays -a variety of information will be good for this channel, and engage viewers better.

[@sdla690]

I agree, I too like going straight forward to teach

[@rishim6816]

@@arunkarthikma3121 It seems you have missed the context. You saw the video after it had been edited as per my suggestion. Don't believe me? Watch it again and notice the points where edits have been made. Now it has relevant content only, so naturally ppl would like it.