Piano Quick Tip: WARM-UP 

Do you use the same fingering for every key?

Many pianists despise Hanon but the truth is that it is super effective and your fingers then fly over the keyboard, and they incredibly improve your technique with very simple exercises.

That sheet music shelf behind you looks so interesting - could you perhaps do a video where you go through your sheet music collection.

I don't know what's with you, but when I accidentally click one of your vids, you got me hooked for the upcoming 3 to 4 vids straight, you're always sophisticated whenever you present yourself

Finally a video that actually explains *how* it's best to use Hanon exercises. Perfect! Play every key, don't play too fast, use different rhythms, different phrasing and always ensure hands are relaxed. While you're still mastering the exercises, pay special attention that each note is clear and even sounding. The only thing I can add is that I also use it to exercise polyrhythms (lh 3-5, rh 4-4, so you get 3 over 4 and 5 over 4 within the 8 notes, and other such variants).

She, WHERING SLIPPERS, can make hanon sound better than me playing my best piece in my best day... Thanks for showing us the way. This is the way!

This technique routine is not only about warming up but also building up a good technique over a long term independently from which repertoire you are practising at the moment. Great Video, Annique!

You are the piano teacher I've never had. Thank you.

"Focussing my body, Create the rhythm through your body, Impulse from stomach and Relax." Great. Really helpful for me.

Your piano sounds so good specially the non legato part ( yes i came here from la campanella challenge video)

It makes me think to ballet dancers, doing their bar exercices every morning. It is the same for pianists :)

Omg I've been stabbing staccato keys for years. The jumping off the note advice is gold for me!

I found that playing the Hanon exercises staccato helped me a lot. Right from the first exercise. It helped get the arm weight action into my legato.

You made me appreciate the benefit of Warming Up. I usually don't but will begin to do it. thanks.

Absolutely brilliant warm up advice!

THANK YOU for your thoughts on warming up and how vital it is to our music practice!! Love your content and teaching style. Looking forward to exploring your channel!

Annique! I just discovered your channel and I couldn’t be more grateful. You are so full of light, grace, and of course incredible talent!! Thanks for the practice tips! 💕 you’re officially added to my goals list

Wishing you all the very best and thank you for all the time you take to share your process. Stay safe. 🤗🙏🏼🎹 Angelo

your videos are great, having the additional captions on screen is really helpful as well

This is the video I needed to watch, you are wonderful! I use the Hanon exercises and I warm up with them. Thank you.

Thank you for the tips and daily warm-up routine.

You’ve got me hooked. I’ve learnt something from every one of your videos. That is an achievement 🙂

I'm realizing now how important my Hanon and Czerny exercises are.I don't always want to start with them but I feel better when I do. I generally play through 6-10 Hanon then do 10-16 Czerny. Improvement is slow but sure.

I am new to piano am always interested in hand excercises. Coming from a Bagpipe background, I can easily appreciate the value of definitive structured articulated scale exercises. Thank you for your wonderful work!

You are great, young lady! Besides being a great musician, you are a great teacher! Greetings from Brazil!

Warming up and focusing on technique instead of performance rings so true to me as a keen runner. Most of my training is not performance level and it’s essential for me to warm up as well. Your hair looked amazing in this video. Clearly you were having a good/great day. 😍

I enjoy very much your lessons. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

This adds spice to Hanon! Thank you!

i luv the rhythmic practicees!!!❤❤❤

Na, richtig, so SUPER Annique!

Thank you for this great lesson, I often forget to warm up and that makes my Hands tensioned and unready to play light and free

What an amazing video in so many ways, thank you

Great work and explanation !! For my warm up I use to choose one exercise from hanon 1-20 and try it in every major and minor scale. You can try it if you haven't it s a bit difficult and tricky 😁

I love your rhythm ideas 💡 😍 💙 ❤ 💕.

Hi thank you so mach i play piano too and i always just practice without any warm up so now I watch your video I decided to warm up before any practice and thanks for your suggestion to how warm up 💜🙏🏻

7:45 8:01 4:19 4:27 Soooo satisfying watching you do all of these rhythms! 5:23

Thank you very much. Your tips help me a lot.

Excellent, thank you!

Your voice is perfect!

Thank you for sharing this useful method. I tried it out, and my hand really feels relaxed. I never did any warmup, and I never heard of these excersizes, despite graduating from a renown Music Academy, and I had to stop working for half a year because of straining my hand. It would be essential to teach this, to prevent a lot of self-harm.

Amazing! Thanks for sharing.

J adore votre façon de faire comprendre comment absorber l intuition qui est en nous le piano je t❤️

This so important. I seriously hurt a ligament in my right hand due to not warming up before a performance. That put me out of action for 2 months. I can't even play a C major tonic triad without feeling as if my right hand is being ripped apart.

🥰Thank you for this teaching, it is very helpful. Soon i will have my piano to then i can practice. Greeting from Netherland.

You are amazing, greetings from México

Very nice video , thank you for sharing this 🌿

❤ wonderful!

I love watching your videos just for relaxation and inspiration 🤭🤭 I'm just a piano beginner...

Can't way to get a properer piano. I'm learning so much more about piano thanks to you.

Hanons help a lot with fluidity in the fingers!

Very useful video! Could you please do a video explaining the rythms you use for this exercise? Thank you 😊

Beautiful.... Tips

My teacher makes me play the first 16 one after the other 3 times every beginning of lessons. It’s been a while I haven’t played and I can’t even play the first 5....... Gotta go practice ！

Thanks for a great lession... 😁😁😁

Cool, thanks! By the way, I like your slippers😉

Wow very interesting! I really like it

thanks for that video!

OMG, you look amazing! Congrats.

Thank you for tips and wwArmup

One thing I like to play when warming up is the E->D#->C#->B->E->D#->C#->B etc. octave part of Chopin’s Heroic Polonaise Op. 53. You can play it with either hand or both hands at the same time. It requires power, speed and accuracy. Some people like to warm up with easy stuff but this polonaise passage gets my mojo going.

You are sooooooo talented 👍😘

many thanks💙💙💙💙🙌

The video on Hanon was very helpful, things my teacher never mentioned...that was 40years ago.

Muito bom. Eu muitas vezes sinto dores no meu pulso principalmente no esquerdo porque não aqueço antes de começar. Vou começar a fazer isso.

beautiful

Thanks..very useful

Nice presentation of a well controlled and relaxed practice. It would be extra helpful to clarify in comment the different rhythms and touch variations :)

oh gosh it helps so much

Thanks for sharing

I like to play piano every day ❤-Chopin❤

Hola...Gracias por el consejo... 😊🎹🎶

Hannon Rules and Rocks !!!!

My God !! You are so talented and beautiful ☺☺

Gorgeous...

good exercises to warm up, in ricordi's edition (page 42) I found the rhythms, what a great help

I like your teaching ,I love your beauty

Thanks

your warmup routine is wilder than my actual playing, I think I can just skip it then and do some hand and finger warmup without piano keys 😅

I love your choice of footwear! ;-) That alone is cause to thumbs up and subscribe.

You said there is no music in these exercises but yet they still sound better than half of today's music 😁

I always wonder why no one talks about the fact that in a lot of the Hanon exercises the descending part is not exactly copied mirror-inverted in relation to the ascending part. It starts already with exercise no. 2: the second note of the descending part should be an 'e' instead of a 'd', otherwise you don't have the same hand pattern for both hands.

you’re so pretty, and amazing at piano

Annique - thank HEAVENS you're using a close touch technic and NOT LIFTING your fingers! I wish that you would point this out and emphasize it to your viewers. Playing Hanon with lifting the fingers is very bad technic and can cause injuries. I also use and recommend a limited amount of Hanon similar to what you are using (the first 20 are enough) and am glad to see that your are playing sensibly with a good technic and at moderate speeds for warm-ups as opposed to playing too fast and causing tension and injuries! I very much enjoyed the variety of rhythms, articulations, and combinations - some of which I look forward to trying. For additional variety, I also play them in 10ths and 6ths, which seems to add a bit of fluidity since the hands are on different notes. They're also more "musical" that way - almost sound pretty! :-) Sometimes I like to combine 2 different patterns in alternating measures. For example, Hanon #1 and Hanon #5 - play one measure of #1, step up to the next note and play one measure of #5, step up to the next note and play one measure of #1, etc. I have not tried many other combinations at this point - For just a bit more of a workout try playing them in the harmonic minor keys - this gives a little extra stretch and micro-movement warm-up with some of the intervals created between the lowered 6th and raised 7th of the harmonic scale. Playing these in 10ths and 6ths can become quite an adventure - for example F-sharp harmonic minor in 10ths or 6ths - !

Nice 👍

Hi annique, can you make a video on wrist/arm movement, or how to release tension in our arm/wrist?

(you can improve the video quality in your videos (getting rid off the horizontal lines) recording in a progresive video format, avoiding interlaced modes, or activating de-interlace when editting)

I fell in love

Beautiful dress perfect with your style.

I also use Hanon as warm up, but i will do them in B major, D-b major, F# minor and E-b minor.

Most times 20mins is my entire session, not just warm-up 😳

Love Hanon. My students hate how much I love Hanon.

Can you please do a video on seat height and distance and posture? Most teachers teach either a) the top of forearm should be level or sloping down slightly b) the elbow bone should be level with the bottom of a depressed key c) elbow bone level with top of white keys. Despite playing for over 30 years, Ive recently been over activating my right forearm flexors/tendons despite practicing slow, not over curling the fingers nor key bedding. I’m currently retraining in the Taubman approach to try and resolve it and sitting so my forearm bone is approx horizontal.

Hi! Good day your post on you tube is so informative as a keyboard player it helps me a lot. I used to play my style a chord on left hand and a melody on my right hand, is appropriate in a 61keys and it don't sound well. Need some help.

Your so amazing.. I like that exercise bat I don't no how to gate that notes..can I favor to teach me

I love what you’re sharing. Thank you. For intermediate piano hobbyists like me, i get tired and strained from this full warmup, and i run out of time to play. Is it ok if i only do one and a half scale with each rhythm instead of the two and half scale that Hanon recommends?

Super important to warm up and also to cool down and strech after practicing. Do you have a streching routine?. Thanks for sharing this things.

Thank you so much for the fingering exercise tips as no one has been able to explain it so well as you have just shown.It is my biggest problem,hopefully not now.

I also love to play bach inventions to warm up

Oh, Heart , thanks.

Hi Annique, your videos are really interesting and enlightening! I usually do some exercises from Hanon but I’ve never thought about different rithms. I’ll certainly try them in my piano session today. Do you know Pichna’s technique exercises? My professor made me buy the book few weeks ago and some exercises are really tough and “hand-breaking” 🥵