Jailbreaking Hanon
Graham Fitch shows how Hanon’s exercises can be used creatively as a blank canvas to experience and develop movements encountered in real music.
A Balanced Approach to Exercises and Studies
A balanced approach to using exercises and studies to solve specific pianistic problems.
The Hanon Debate (Part 2)
This blog post features the views of pianist Peter Donohoe on the use of Hanon’s Virtuoso Pianist as part of our debate on the subject.
The Hanon Debate (Part 1)
As we saw from responses to last week's post, the exercises of Hanon are a hotly debated topic. It seems there is nothing more provocative than uttering the name of…
How to Use Hanon
In this week’s guest post, Ilga Pitkevica discusses the ubiquitous exercises of Hanon and shares her views on how to use them effectively. *** Mastering all core types of piano…
On Technical Exercises
In the nineteenth century there was a widespread belief that hours a day spent practising finger exercises would lead to mastery of the instrument, and many method books were published,…
Overpracticers Hanonymous
It is not so much what we practise, but how; it is the quality rather than the quantity that matters. We need a specific aim when practising an exercise, a piece, a phrase…