Do your Czerny Op 299, it will help your fingers move!

My teacher made me do this since Jan07 and there are 4 books in this work. I am now in the middle of book 3 and my fingers have stabilised. Especially the 4th and 5th fingers which are the weakest!

The exercises are good if practiced everyday - but for me as I don't have the time, now I do my exercises at least 5 mins every other day before I start working on my pieces and it helps.

The only thing to note is that you should play the exercise fluently before you move to the next as they get more challenging and teach different skills for the piano. So be patient......

Imagine if I had more time to practice - sigh.....

The exercises help because left is doing something diff from right hand, and the brain has to think all the time. You also recognise patterns in music whether consciously or unconsciously and you will be able to read faster when you add speed!

Have fun.

Cheers.

Hi...
I've been using Op. 599 to practice on my sightreading... and it's been very helpful.

Are the exercises in Op. 299 like Hanon's?

Hi Phi,

no, not like Hanon, I have also played all of Hanon but think Czerny is better for independent hands devt. It will help you even out both hands because while left is playing accompaniment, right is playing running notes and vice versa, ie, left also gets practice in running notes while right plays accompaniment! Hanon exercises are largely in "unison" or playing together. I have not tried op599.

Czerny's op 299 will also help with sight reading.

but this is basic finger strength. Other stuff like appegios and those difficult things you find in say Chopin's Etudes, need other types of exercises to master! I find it difficult to play Etudes, but now I can play most of Mozart and Beethoven's Sonatas, plus sight read new pieces alot easier!

Cheers!

Great Tips. Ill look into that piece!

Thomandy wrote:Great Tips. Ill look into that piece!

It's more or less like a BOOK!! lol

Thanks for the info. jeanne.supermum. I've had a peek at the exercises in the book... and it's definitely worth getting.
Link, if anyone's interested.

Phi wrote:

Thomandy wrote:Great Tips. Ill look into that piece!

It's more or less like a BOOK!! lol

Thanks for the info. jeanne.supermum. I've had a peek at the exercises in the book... and it's definitely worth getting.
Link, if anyone's interested.

Aaah, I see Well Ill check into that book someday then hehe

I actually included a link to the book in my previous post.
Click on "link"

Phi wrote:I actually included a link to the book in my previous post.
Click on "link"

I didtn notice that atfirst Thank.. Looks like aloooot 101 pages

Phi wrote:I actually included a link to the book in my previous post.
Click on "link"

Awesome, Thank You

Hello everyone,

hey, don't get the wrong idea - the book is actually 4 parts and each part has at least 10 exercises and increase in complexity.....its not like u can play it all in one day! I took 1.5 years and I am halfway thru part 3!

another tip is to not get discouraged and to master the exercise before you go on to the next, becos skills learnt in earlier exercises will help with the learning of the more challenging ones.

I still can't play the exercises at the metronome speed indicated, so there.....still more musical roads to travel....

happy trying!

where is the link by the way?

Cheers!

jeanne.supermum wrote:Hello everyone,

hey, don't get the wrong idea - the book is actually 4 parts and each part has at least 10 exercises and increase in complexity.....its not like u can play it all in one day! I took 1.5 years and I am halfway thru part 3!

another tip is to not get discouraged and to master the exercise before you go on to the next, becos skills learnt in earlier exercises will help with the learning of the more challenging ones.

I still can't play the exercises at the metronome speed indicated, so there.....still more musical roads to travel....

happy trying!

where is the link by the way?

Cheers!

Ya ..

Thats Right !
We have to play carefully & slowly without hastiness ..

Here's the Link : http://www.scribd.com/doc/2536431/Czerny-Op299-The-School-Of-Velocity

Thanks

hi Amro,

thanks for the link! have added this to my favourites.

Jeanne

BUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Andrew? This book, should I start it??
Or is it others that are better?? I really want to start some Real Exercises now!

yea that book is great! My tendonitious couldn't handle those things. If you did some of that book you'd probably be better than me fairly quickly. It's a great book.

PS. does anyone want to e-mail me a copy of the PDF? If someone else has it I would rather not make another account I'll only use once just to download the book

Admin Andrew wrote:yea that book is great! My tendonitious couldn't handle those things. If you did some of that book you'd probably be better than me fairly quickly. It's a great book.

Okay! I started the 8first bars yesterday, and the ex is great for me, cause I noticed a little time back that I dont got a smooth thumbtuck when I start to go faster on the "white-key-thirds-scare" if you get what I mean, I cant remember the name for it

But I guess I should be careful then about overdoing these ex?!
I have at first glance told myself Im gona try one ex each week..

But great, then Im starting it for real

Admin Andrew wrote:PS. does anyone want to e-mail me a copy of the PDF? If someone else has it I would rather not make another account I'll only use once just to download the book

I tried to download the .pdf, but my pc is an idiot and dont want to download .pdf at the moment. Something wrong with my Acrobat Reader

Admin Andrew wrote:PS. does anyone want to e-mail me a copy of the PDF? If someone else has it I would rather not make another account I'll only use once just to download the book

I've got it, what's your email?

thanks! I already got it!

goodell wrote:

I've got it, what's your email?

If you want to send me a copy??
thomandy84@hotmail.com

Thomandy wrote:

goodell wrote:

I've got it, what's your email?

If you want to send me a copy??
thomandy84@hotmail.com

Sent

goodell wrote:

Thomandy wrote:

goodell wrote:

I've got it, what's your email?

If you want to send me a copy??
thomandy84@hotmail.com

Sent

Thanks

I know.. if we only had more time to practice.. but any practice time is better than nothing.. try scheduling it in to your day.. sometimes you'll get more done if you actually put it on your schedule or calendar as if its an appointment or job, etc..

Tony

Could someone send me a copy too? Email is JeneMCHS [at] gmail [dot] com.

Don't want to type it out.. or spambots will find it and send me spam.

Is there a midi file around for Czerny Op 299? It would help to hear what it should sound like..

Rayman wrote:Is there a midi file around for Czerny Op 299? It would help to hear what it should sound like..

here is a you tube search:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Czerny+Op+299&search_type=&aq=f

Buckle Up!

ETA: I bookmarked the book. This looks really neat (yet impossibly difficult) and is the first time I've heard of this. Thanks for bumping, Rayman!