Hanon Exercise 1 - proceed chromatically?
I have Hanon's Virtuoso Pianist, (Hinrischen Edition, Edition Peters Ltd. 1987 ,©).
Towards the end of first exercise, it says "Important: proceed chromatically through all major keys!"
I couldn't understand this. I guess I can try doing this with most keys with sharps (CGDAE) or F, but how on Earth am I supposed to follow this fingering with keys like Bb, Eb, Ab etc. which has more complicated fingering any way.
Can I get some easy to understand explanations and tips?
Thank you!
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This means that you shall transpose the piece to all twelve keys.
Hanon pieces are (as far as I remember) all notated in C-Major.
Thus you must transpose it to C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, Bb and B.
Transposing the exercises is really helpful, but I don't think it is necessary to transpose it to every key -choose keys with different hand-positions or keys you want to learn.
Edit: I changed my mind - I think it is useful to transpose it to every key.
You can change the fingering for every key to an appropriate one, or keep the same (as far as I remember this works for most Hanon exercises).
Don't do this. Hanon is not an exercise in scales. It's an exercise designed to pit your weak fingers against your strong fingers to help you learn to play with equal facility across all fingers. The fact that you're playing the notes of a C major scale is inconsequential. Consider: would it be worth playing them in A minor?
Playing Hanon in all 12 keys is the most colossal waste of time I can imagine.
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