C.L. Hanon - Exercise no. 1 - TUTORIAL - Greg Niemczuk

[@jamessullivan1830]

Greg -- Your altruism and thoughtfulness when making these videos and responding to comments is truly appreciated. You are a wonderful musician and teacher. Thank you again for taking time to share your music and teaching us!

[@gregniemczuk]

I don't know where it comes from.... Something tells me to do it.....

[@MarkIngle1959]

When a master like you teaches us this sort of thing it is truly a blessing for us. Thank you from a 65 year old returning to piano after a lifetime of work now settling into retirement and playing after 45 years away!!!

[@gregniemczuk]

Fantastic ! Thank you for your words and good luck to you! I hope my videos will help you to feel comfortable on piano faster!

[@lookingouthere]

Yes! All scales, arpeggios, and exercises are beautiful and enjoyable if not played like a dull machine but instead with emotional expression, I LOVE scales!

[@MarkIngle1959]

I do too, I used to hate them as a kid but now played with feeling variation and emotion its enjoyable and a great sense of achievement

[@lookingouthere]

@@MarkIngle1959 my teacher at the New England Conservatory of music told the class that “practice is not for fun, it’s for progress.“ I responded, “not if you love every sound and silence, then youexperience both. We never got along after that.

[@Alix777.]

Thank you very much Greg for sharing your knowledge and experience.

[@christineharmony2375]

So glad I’ve found these videos . Thanks Greg

[@gregniemczuk]

I'm happy to hear that! I hope they will be helpful! That's why I'm doing all of them

[@mindum1625]

You are an excellent teacher. Keep it up.❤

[@yoyichen4470]

Oh my! Greg, I didn’t have a teacher, but I do now, and you are my teacher 😅! Practicing Hannon in this way gave me an instant start. I tried it today and it feels completely different. I love so much! Thank you! 🙏 😊

[@gregniemczuk]

So happy to hear that!!!!!!!!

[@pianist_n7]

Hanon Exercises is the second most used piano book in Korea after Czerny. actually, many students in Korea practice Hanon every day Thanks for uploading a great video today, Greg!

[@gregniemczuk]

Probably that's one of the main reasons why all Korean pianists have such a splendid technique!!!

[@cdd33dd]

Greg, thank you so much for your time and care. Your videos help a lot! Thank you for short videos for each exercise.

[@gregniemczuk]

Thank you so much!!!!

[@sandraangot5015]

Hello Greg, thank you for your vidéo. I have to say that I had quit those exercices until your last vidéo about it. Since then I play them every day. 8 by day plus I have devided the scales and arpeggios for the week. I have to say that I have improved. Thank you

[@gregniemczuk]

Good to hear that!!

[@MD-ky2dt]

Greg, You're simply the best ! 🎉🎉🎉

[@spirituellebuchermeditatio9264]

I ordered all of them, the Hanon ,books now after your advice Nr 1,2 and 3 and I am glad you show how to do them. Thank you....you are right, it's important how it sounds. Like a friend who is a cook always said, it counts only if it tastes. It can look amazing, but if it doesn't taste it's for nothing.

[@gregniemczuk]

So true!

[@sychg3448]

Thank you for explaining this in detail. Very often, we just don't know the reason and logic behind.

[@wireless6374]

I'm beginner, but it's very exciting to watch high level practicing of hanon.

[@mmoo364]

Thank you 😊

[@iuriisusuk7845]

It is very helpful 😊 Thank you very much ❤

[@hippophile]

Thank you so much for this. Hand movements in-and-out or rotations are something I try sometimes... also I do long-short note exercises sometimes where a run is uneven (playing like quaver-crotchet-quaver-crotchet etc). The breakdown into groups at the end was interesting, I shall give that a go. You did ask to keep updated on my "Hanon journey", so maybe this is a good moment? Sorry if that makes this post a little long. I am on day 23. My left pinky sticks out sometimes, but the right hand is OK... I am gradually working on it, but obviously the right hand is mostly faster (5-15 bpm) than the left hand, and more comfortable in some exercises. I think Hanon is helping me keep chords together better (eg in Op28#17) but is upsetting the accuracy of my jumps I think (temporary muscle development effects I hope!!). It might be helping with evenness of some runs, not sure though. First couple of weeks I got sore little hand muscles (interosseus muscles etc), but no strains. So you are playing at 220 bpm or so! Insane! Maybe I could manage 130 for ex.1 only, but I lose evenness after about 120. In fact I stopped using the metronome for most other exercises as it encourages me to play too fast and unevenly. Question: I would really like an idea of how fast this needs to get to play, say, the 48 note fioritura in Chopin's Nocturne Op.27 #2 at a reasonably good pace (I reckon I need 20% more speed at least to stop it sounding like a fast scale). If I can get to play that I think I can learn the piece in time, if not I should maybe try another piece.

[@gregniemczuk]

Hmmm.... Answering your question: try to practice this fast passage in the Nocturne dividing it into smaller parts and learning smaller parts (even 4-6 notes) in a fast tempo... Than gradually put them together

[@hippophile]

@@gregniemczuk Thank you. I shall try that!

[@kiralighto2573]

So informativ! More pls

[@panburza5075]

Panie Grzegorzu, jak Pan może! Unikałem Hanona.. po pierwszym filmie zacząłem ćwiczyć.. a teraz to nawet nie wypada nie ćwiczyć! Pozdrawiam serdecznie!

[@gregniemczuk]

Przepraszam!!!! Ale naprawdę polecam. Tylko mądrze!

[@gonzalodiazgarrido]

gracias!

[@nikocuneo2589]

bonjour! I watched the main hanon video and I was wondering if hanon should also be thought of as a way to strengthen fingers and left hand

[@gregniemczuk]

Hello! Yes! I think so!

[@mrsmokpiano]

Good! I started to practice Hanon with separate hands and only once for my confidence with both hands. I think your method makes sense in general, but for beginners like me also important to be able to play with both hands. Also fingering is different in hands and for 1 hand I could play non legato, for other staccato.

[@gregniemczuk]

Yes, maybe you're right and as long as it improves your technique, it's good.

[@hippophile]

Some exercises seem to work one had on the way up, and the other hand on the way down (ex. 6 for example) - so those seem like a good choice for using both hands I imagine...

[@gregniemczuk]

@@hippophile aw, it makes sense but I used them for playing those "easier" parts extra extra super fast

[@hippophile]

@@gregniemczuk Ah!! Yes, even I can play the easy way fast on #6! :))

[@MathieuPrevot]

Hello Greg. I was wondering: don't you think that Hanon exercices are "blocking the wrists", or "too static to improve the wrist flexibility" ?

[@gregniemczuk]

Hi Mathieu. Absolutely not, because we should move the wrist a lot Thule practicing it. All depends on how you practice them.

[@MathieuPrevot]

@@gregniemczuk I agree completely with you ! I do not remember having seen a video from you about *fast* thirds (in particular Chopin 6 op 25 (à la Lhevinne), Godowsky 36 (which I am working on ;) ); would that be a good idea ?

[@gregniemczuk]

@@MathieuPrevot yes! I'll do that

[@jacekpiotrowski607]

Panie Grzegorzu, bardzo dziękuję za fantastyczny tutorial! A co sądzi Pan o Gradus ad Parnassum Clementiego, których ćwiczenie zalecał ponoć sam Chopin?

[@gregniemczuk]

Cenię je bardzo wysoko.

[@bloak9803]

Hi, Greg. I started practicing Hanon since your last video but seem to be stuck at no.2&3 right now. Should I familiarize myself with all exercises at a lower tempo or work on one at a time? Also, is it better to play two octaves at a lower tempo or one bar at max speed? I find it tricky that one bar is easy but the same pattern repeated becomes hard.

[@gregniemczuk]

Of course start with slower tempo and try to learn first 10 in slower tempo. Your brain will be gradually adjusting to them

[@bloak9803]

@@gregniemczuk Thank you!

[@PierreNicques]

W jakim tempie Pan to ćwiczy? Na moje ucho ze 135 bpm. W nutach widzę tempo 60 - 108, stąd pytanie.

[@gregniemczuk]

Dzień dobry. Im szybciej,tym lepiej. Tempo w nutach moim zdaniem jest odpowiednie dla początkujących dzieci. Nie stosuję się do opisu Hanona, jak ćwiczyć jego ćwiczenia, tylko dostosowuję je do tego, co chcę osiągnąć. Pozdrawiam serdecznie

[@PierreNicques]

@@gregniemczuk Dziękuję za odpowiedź. A co Pan sądzi o praktykowaniu tych ćwiczeń w innych tonacjach?

[@gregniemczuk]

@@PierreNicques mówię o tym tutaj: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6iYfKRumpuSo7M Generalnie to jest bardzo dobry pomysł, choć ja ćwiczę tylko w C dur i Cis dur. Ale kiedyś bawiłem się więcej w transpozycje

[@daniellaskowski9757]

Panie Grzegorzu czy jest może wersja Hanona po polsku?

[@gregniemczuk]

Dzień dobry. Oj przepraszam, nie ma, musiałbym dwa razy nagrywać.... Mogę spróbować dodać napisy. Dobrze?

[@daniellaskowski9757]

@@gregniemczuk Super, jeżeli się da byłbym ogromnie wdzięczny. Jestem pełen podziwu Pana ogromnej pracy. Zrobić taką analizę dzieł F. Chopina, koncertując przy tym czynnie. Coś niesamowitego. Niech Bóg ma Pana w opiece ❤️🌹💙

[@gregniemczuk]

Dodałem do tego filmu automatyczne napisy polskie. Dodam też niebawem do ogólnego filmu o Hanonie (ten ogólny film jest dużo lepszy i dokładniejszy)

[@daniellaskowski9757]

@@gregniemczuk dziękuję 🌹❤️💙

[@agnieszkalibiszewska4262]

​@@gregniemczuk Napisy są wystarczające. Poza tym Pana angielski jest tak przejrzysty, że każdy sobie poradzi ze zrozumieniem treści nawet i bez napisów. Dziękuję za te tutoriale, a szczególnie o uwadze nt. nie aż tak istotnego znaczenia wyglądu dłoni w kontekście znaczenia likwidacji napięcia.

[@briancoveney3080]

Slowly, I CAN see the rotation. Very fast, it's gone so quickly, = hard to discern the movements of the arm and hand. Arm weight too.

[@shiv5upadhyay]

This is not a tutorial on Hannon exercise 1. It’s a show off demo of how well-versed you are.

[@gregniemczuk]

Do you think so? My idea was to make a tutorial for advanced pianists, not for beginners.....