Transpose "Daily Dozen"?

[charleyg]

The "Daily Dozen" are supposed to be used before practicing.  I guess you could call them "warm ups".  I've recently been experimenting with "2 Keys a day", in order to get round to all 12 keys in the 6 day week (a day off for the Sabbath).

So, I had the idea today (since today is Eb and Bb) to do my "Daily Dozen" in Eb, instead of C (as written).  It was surprisingly more difficult than I had anticipated, particularly the 3rd or 4th one, which has stacatto parallel 3rds, but even the first one, with stacatto 16th notes was hard for my left hand.  Well, both hands, due to the need to get my fat fingers between the black keys to hit the white keys.

My question today is "Are any of you doing anything like this to the Daily Dozen?"

[alzado]

I'm sorry to say, I'm afraid you have lost me.

Where do you get the explanation of the "daily dozen"?   Is this a plan advocated by one of the method book editors?

Perhaps you need to back up a bit and fill us in on the meaning of this.

I'm not knocking it -- I just don't know what you mean.

[cosine]

Daily Dozen - simple piano warmups. It's actually a whole series of books of finger exercises. I couldn't find them on the Internet, but I've seen them in several music stores around Milwaukee. I used them for a while, but haven't lately. I prefer to warm up with just scales, Bach, and Scarlatti.

Transposing the Daily Dozen exercises to different keys sounds like a good idea though.

[bwv772]

The original poster may have meant the "A Dozen a Day" series by Burnam.

[cosine]

That's what I was thinking he meant.

[bwv772]

That's what I was thinking he meant.

Oooops sorry, my error, I should have addressed my reply to user alzado.

[jbroder]

I had never heard of "A Dozen a Day" and was reading an advert to buy the books (thanks to you for mentioning it, it seems like a great resource). Anyway, the advert mentions transposing them as part of the development of your skills.

https://www.musicroom.com/se/ID_No/04003/details.html

So there you go.