New excersises

[pianisten1989]

Hi

I've just (almost) finished Czerny op 377, 40 daily excersises.
My question is: What is good to begin with next? I've thought about both Czerny's 160 excersises in 8 bars (or something like that) and Brahms 51 excersises.
Are those any good, or have any of you got any better suggestions? Not Hanon though! It didn't help me at all...

[demerzel]

I used to use Hanon a lot, but as you said, it gets mundane and unhelpful after a while. Transposing the exercises to different keys helps a bit, but you really can't get into it very much.

The Brahms 51 are interesting. It's somewhat like Hanon in the repetitive style of one measure leading into something similar happening in the next, but unlike Hanon, both hands are not doing the same thing at all times. You pretty much need a full-sized piano for parts of it, though -- the octave and arpeggio exercises are particularly space-consuming.

[stringoverstrung]

of course there's nothing wrong with exercises, but you should consider rethinking  the balance of the exercise versus Music (= technically and musically challenging music).

[pianisten1989]

of course there's nothing wrong with exercises, but you should consider rethinking  the balance of the exercise versus Music (= technically and musically challenging music).

Yes, ofcourse. I play my music pieces quite a lot more than technique, but it's always good to prepare oneself for techniqually diffuculties.
But I think I'll go with Brahms, since I played Czerny before.

[jaypiano]

Why not try these exercises, with symmetrical inversion to keep the neurons and the fingers hopping.

[pianisten1989]

Why not try these exercises, with symmetrical inversion to keep the neurons and the fingers hopping.

Oh... they were probably the most boring exersises I've seen, except for Hanon.
Or well, some of them seemed quite good, but it was almost only scales... and well... you don't need a billion exercises for practising scales... =/

[pianisten1989]

Sry for being a bit rude last night, I was really tired and my whole body hurt. Anyway, I appreciate that you told me about them, it's good that ppl send a bilt unknown exercises aswell =)