Hanon

[evryali]

I mastered the first half of the Hanon exercises within 4 days at 140 bpm is this good or bad.

[evryali]

sorry I meant first half of book one.

[chopinlover01]

Congrats.
Do you want a real tip?
Drop Hanon.
To answer your question, it's almost certainly not a bad thing. Not necessarily good, though, because Hanon often teaches bad habits for people who don't know what they're doing.

[kawai_cs]

If you mastered them at that speed that means you definitely did not get that bad habit of rising fingers high which prevents from playing fast. So it is a good thing.
I think the second half contains more interesting and difficult exercises like playing smooth 4, 1 and 5, 1 transitions. There are scale exercises but I skipped them since I play scales every day anyways. There are also some good exercises for double thirds, sixths, etc. So I think the second half is more interesting.

[evryali]

Congrats.
Do you want a real tip?
Drop Hanon.
To answer your question, it's almost certainly not a bad thing. Not necessarily good, though, because Hanon often teaches bad habits for people who don't know what they're doing.

I'm pretty sure I know what i'm doing.

[chopinlover01]

If you're playing the pieces in your signature, what the bloody hell are you trying to get by playing hanon at this point as anything other than a daily warm-up?

[evryali]

My teacher is gone for two weeks out of state doing only god know what and for some reason I was told get through the first book by the time I get back and if you finish try exercises 1-5 for book two they knows more than me so i'm gonna learn it.

[kawai_cs]

Only now I noticed the pieces you play in your signature and it sounds strange to start Hanon at this stage   Myself, I did some Hanon when I came back to piano after years of not playing and my fingers were kind of weak.

[chopinlover01]

Well, due to the nature of this thread, I'm going to have to put myself out there in the "I don't believe you're playing what you say you are" club for evryali.. Unless he's posted some recordings.
IIRC there's a group about me in that club too..

[mrnhrtkmp210999]

Hanon = Garbage 

BW,
Marijn

[pianoplunker]

I mastered the first half of the Hanon exercises within 4 days at 140 bpm is this good or bad.

It is good you are practicing. If you want good or bad opinion for your mastery of Hanon, you will need to post a recording.  I am sure the crowd would love to hear it

[mrnhrtkmp210999]

You should stop doing Hanon exercises.

There is no worse thing to devote your practicing time to. Piano exercises should not be done in order to acquire a better 'tecnnique', since technique is not something that begins at level 1 when you play the piano and can improve through different levels. Technique simply defines what is needed in order to play a certain piece or passage.

The right way, however, to acquire the technique that is needed to play that certain piece or passage, is by playing through it, see where you make mistakes, look for the reason that you make those mistakes and then come up with a solution to overcome those mistakes. That process is something a teacher should help you with (if you have one) or you could ask the members on pianostreet.

BW,
Marijn