The HANON Book

I just viewed Andrew's video covering the HANON exercises, and they intrigue me. Do you think that getting the book is a worthy investment (total with shipping is 10 and a half dollars), or do the cons outweigh the pros of the exercises?

There you have the 3 PART for free...

http://www.free-scores.com/search.php?CATEGORIE=&operateur=AND&search=hanon&menu=

Depo007 wrote:I just viewed Andrew's video covering the HANON exercises, and they intrigue me. Do you think that getting the book is a worthy investment (total with shipping is 10 and a half dollars), or do the cons outweigh the pros of the exercises?

Buy it Its 10$. Its nothing!
Or find them free, thats up to you!

But there are only pros?? What negative is there about the exercises? Everyone of them will help you get better, Im sure.
This women Andrew is talking about?! She sais it isnt important, BUT of course its importnt. Learning good armteqniq is Also important. But Hanon also teches your mind to separate the fingers and to have total controll over each and every finger.
I cant see anything relevant that argues against Hanon!! But Scales are even more important hehe

I used Hanon for a while, but it just wasn't reasonable.

They expect you to play every exercise you've learnt 3 times without stopping, once a day.
For someone who is halfway through the second book, that'll take 4hrs... just playing HANON!!

Besides, the exercises don't develop hand-independence, since both hands play the same thing.

On the good side, playing Hanon exercises [ex. 13] has made my pinkies stronger; and yes, several exercises help you gain better control over your fingers.

The guitar made my left hand pretty strong

So if you got a weak left hand, buy a guitar ^_^

Quite the opposite, in fact. I'm a left-handed person, so it's actually my right hand that's weaker.

Thanks for all of the advice and comments. I'll probably end up buying the book after I find out how much my college bill will be for the fall semester.

Phi wrote:I used Hanon for a while, but it just wasn't reasonable.

They expect you to play every exercise you've learnt 3 times without stopping, once a day.
For someone who is halfway through the second book, that'll take 4hrs... just playing HANON!!

Besides, the exercises don't develop hand-independence, since both hands play the same thing.

On the good side, playing Hanon exercises [ex. 13] has made my pinkies stronger; and yes, several exercises help you gain better control over your fingers.

Well, Its not like you got to play as you say! You pick one ex. and play that 5-10 times trough fex as a warmup. It takes about 10min when you know the ex. And then you are done for the day.

If you want it to make your hands independent?! Then just play legato with one hand and stacato with the other! Shift, and boom you got a independenceexercize aswell

Hanon at least 3x10min a week is a "minimum" and works great besides scaletraining

Maybe I'll try this e-book.

While free is definitely a good thing, and my computer does actually sit next to my keyboard, I really would prefer to have a physical copy of the exercises. It just makes playing things easier than staring at a monitor (I'd have to turn my head to the right while playing anyway). I've downloaded the first set of exercises and have decided that I will buy the book, but only after I figure out how much I'm going to be paying for college this fall.

Well, I caved and bought it. I'm glad I did, too. They're great exercises, although I'm still working on getting up to a 108 tempo on the first exercise though. :p

Depo007 wrote:Well, I caved and bought it. I'm glad I did, too. They're great exercises, although I'm still working on getting up to a 108 tempo on the first exercise though. :p

Oh yeah, there as that aswell.. I havnt really thought about the tempo I use. But I can do hanon nr 1 at 200..
The other ones I have racticed is doable on around 135-150 I think.. Speed just suddanly appears! Nothing to rush I guess

VictorCS wrote:The guitar made my left hand pretty strong

So if you got a weak left hand, buy a guitar ^_^

Thanks for the tip, my left hand is weak, so mabye i will start playing a little gitar too, i have one in my "music room" But i never played on it, dont know why realy

Hi everyone -- I have just bought the hanon exercises book, also book 3 the alfreds course . I need to do plenty of finger exercises ,so it will help me alot --- cheers

Hanon= waste of time plus alot of other disadvantages. Here's why Hanon exercises suck, plain and simple:
http://www.pianofundamentals.com/book/en/1.III.7.8

I totally agree with Rickard. The link he provided gives consistent arguments and should be read by EVERYONE who is trying to practice with Hanon now.