Question on Hanon's Exercises for Piano
I am trying to improve my keyboard playing skills and was thinking to take up some Hanon's exercises. I do know a few of them, and I also practice many other exercises. However, I do not want to practice all of Hanon's exercises as I have other priorities which do not allow me enough time.
My question is, out of all 60 exercises, which are the best recommended ones for improving fingers and thus the playing?
I am not a beginner with keyboard and can play a bit. So I would appreciate if someone could please suggest some exercise numbers that I should regularly practice to improve faster.
Thank you.
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I would like to cite an answer to another question about the Hanon exercises:
"Usually with a book of etudes, the thing to do is to work on one for about two weeks, give or take, allowing the tempo to increase by itself, guided by comfort, and then move on to the next etude. After a couple of months of this, you can start cycling back to the first, and continuing to review."
I feel this is very right.
To be short: all of the exercises have their use (and excessive concentration on just a few of them can be very bad). Just keep them in rotation, concentrate on (let's say) two of them for a week, and then continue on the next the following week. Do them in moderation and alongside learning real music, and have a clear goal for them: aquiring good technique (and note that our notions of healthy piano technique have drastically changed since the times of Hanon himself!).
Also have a look at this question which gives some more perspective on these kind of exercises.
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