you forgot picking your nose!
If only Hanon had written like that! Is that by Cziffra? Pretty cool - I'd play it.
But Hanon has stuff that Czerny doesn't have like certain arpeggios types and finger exercises.
Well, that is more of a rotation exercise.Thal
Oh no, please dear God, not again.Thal
Just spent a year doing Hanon for an hour or so each day, having had no previous experience of Hanon or Czerny. Definitely it helped my dexterity/finger strength, however in the end I just got bored with it. In retrospect, I think a better approach and one which I am now following is to learn pieces such as the Scarlatti sonatas (or Bach preludes/fugues, etc.). Then make a "Hanon style" exercise out of the tough bars from Scarlatti (e.g. often the right hand plays a phrase which is then repeated by the left hand - put the two phrases together for an exercise in which both hands are playing the same notes). Then I think you get the same benefits of a Hanon exercise but driven by a piece you actually want to play so it's not so mind-numbingly dull. Also the Hanon exercises rarely use the black notes unless you transpose them.
All very interesting and no doubt well known to many of us, but was it worth reactivating this thread which needs to die??Thal