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! 🙏 😊
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 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 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.
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!
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 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 ?
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.
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
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 mówię o tym tutaj: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Iw5Kq8e6_mQ.html Generalnie to jest bardzo dobry pomysł, choć ja ćwiczę tylko w C dur i Cis dur. Ale kiedyś bawiłem się więcej w transpozycje
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.
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
Panie Grzegorzu, bardzo dziękuję za fantastyczny tutorial! A co sądzi Pan o Gradus ad Parnassum Clementiego, których ćwiczenie zalecał ponoć sam Chopin?
Panie Grzegorzu, jak Pan może! Unikałem Hanona.. po pierwszym filmie zacząłem ćwiczyć.. a teraz to nawet nie wypada nie ćwiczyć! Pozdrawiam serdecznie!
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.
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.
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...
