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Do wish you had stronger and more independent fingers
to play more technically challenging music?
Hi, I'm Jazer and today I'm going to show you
a simple exercise that you can do
to help you to gain more finger independence.
Let's get started.
The exercise I'm going to teach you today
is the first exercise
in a book that's very dear to my heart.
It is the Hannon,
the virtuosic pianist in 60 exercises.
This is a really good book.
I've done all 60 of them and it's really helped me
to become really technically
capable to play a lot of pieces.
Let's get started on the first one.
I'm first going to show you what the whole
first Hannon sounds like.
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so the right hand starts on
this C right under the middle C.
C right under the middle C.
And
the Hanen is made up of many, many different,
as is I'd like to call it rounds.
One round.
Sounds like this.
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let's see that again.
So I first start on the C.
And I'm going to skip
one note.
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And play with these other ones and come back down.
So one more time.
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okay. That's one round.
And then
once I finish
this first round,
I'm going to start the next round
starting on the D.
So this is what it looks like
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and I start again and I skip down it again
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Let's see that again.
This time I'm gonna play the C,
the D and the E round.
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I hope you're seeing a pattern on forming here.
So this is one round.
After I finish that, I'm going to start here.
After finish that I'm going to start here.
And I'm going to do that consecutively
all the way from this C
until this B here.
So
Almost
two octaves
almost from this C until that C,
but just one under that.
So let me just show you what that looks like.
I'm going to play a little bit faster for the sake of this video.
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okay. Once you play up to there,
you're now going to head
downwards.
So we're going up.
Now, we're going to go down.
This time we're going to start on
this G.
That was our top note when we were going upwards.
So now
it's
sort of the opposite way
instead of
playing
upwards.
Now I'm going to go downwards and skip this first note.
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That's one round. I'll just show you that again.
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I'm going to skip this middle one.
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Start the next one.
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So again,
I'm going to play
going upwards the last round when I went upwards,
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right after that I'm going to start with the G
and start going down
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and so on and so forth.
You can see how this exercise is really good
for building finger independence
because every finger is being used
for every single round.
Okay?
And you're going to find that this is going to be
easiest for your one,
two and three because these are the stronger fingers of the hand.
Four and five are going to struggle a bit more.
Just a little heads up.
Okay, We're now gonna go into our left-hand pot.
So the right hand started
on the C on the middle C,
the left hand is going to start on the C,
one octave
below the right hand.
So
It's going to look like this.
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see that?
I had the round,
it's the exact same round but
I'm going to skip that D there.
and I want to,
so there's going to be a little gap between number five
and four
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so on and so forth.
So give that
a bit of practice.
You're going to go from this C
and just like the right hand,
you're not,
you're going to do almost two octaves.
You're going to do those rounds
all the way up to
this B over here.
You will not going to do the C round.
You just going to go almost two octaves
right up to this B.
So at the top it'll look like this.
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we're going to go to descending now.
Start on the G
and start the descending rounds.
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Okay, let me just show you that again.
At a normal speed, it'll look like this.
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Okay, And the next thing you you're going to want to work on
is your hands together.
And that sounds like that.
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so on and so forth.
And when it goes descending, it'll sound like this.
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so on and so forth.
When it descends,
the last round
is played
on
The G here.
So
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Okay, so let's say I'm going to start from this C.
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and G is the last one.
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When I finished that round, I will pay C to ended off.
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so let me play the whole of the descending.
So you know what I'm talking about.
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G is the last one.
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and I'm just play C
to finish off that G round.
So give that some practice.
Remember on this channel
I always try and preach to my students.
Do right hand first,
then hand,
then hands together.
Don't attempt hands to get straight away.
It'll be a little bit too hard for your brain.
Learn to do things a little more step-by-step.
Now the great thing about the Hanen
is that this can be used
for easy to advance students.
Let me show you some variations for the more advanced students.
So for the advanced students,
the first thing you can do is to increase the speed
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so on and so forth.
The next thing you can do,
number two, is
to do one hand staccato
and one hand legato.
So one hand is short and bouncy
while the other hand is smooth.
So it looks like this.
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and you can do that for
the other
way around as well.
So this one,
the left-hander will now be short and right-hand will be smooth.
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this might mess with your head a little bit,
just a heads up.
So as you could see,
these exercises really great for building some strength,
some speed, some agility,
and also building that
finger independence that you all want.
So I hope this has been helpful.
This is going to help you to build
the right technique to play the pieces that
you've always wanted.
Let me know in the comments below,
what are your challenges
from this Hannon.
I love to discuss with you in the comments section.
My name is Jazer.
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Subscribe to my channel,
and I'll catch you in the next tutorial.
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