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| Virtuoso Pianist in 60 Exercises - Complete: Piano Technique | 
 enlarge | Creator: C.l. Hanon
Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 4908
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 116
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 11.9 x 9 x 0.4
ISBN: 0793525446
Dewey Decimal Number: 786
UPC: 073999569704
EAN: 9780793525447
ASIN: 0793525446
Publication Date: November 1, 1986
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| Customer Reviews:
 Just do it!!! September 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Use your fingers now to buy this book and they will thank you later!
What it is: A collection of excercises mostly in the key of C with repeating patterns sequenced up one note. The excercises are simple to learn (unlike Czerny) and are effective at what they do-strengthen, increase dexterity and speed, and coordinate hands.
Who are they for: My kids and I both use them.
How I have used them: 1.First learned the pattern. 2. Speed up to 80. 3. Then play each note distinctly. 4. Focus on the left and right finger hitting the note at exactly the same time. 5. Added a metronome, to work on timing and speed. 6. Then added the most important thing-pulse, by accentuating either the first of four notes(2 beats per measure) or using a ragtime rhythm(3-3-2). In short, they seem to develop with you. I have also started using them to teach the names of the notes to my kids (have them say the first note of a group).
By the way I don't find them boring (after a year and a half, almost daily), but relaxing after a stressful day.
Must-Have for Technique September 6, 2008
Eventually all my students will have to have this book. It is a staple for piano technique! It's cheap in price, too.
Must have... July 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Written before 1900 - still being printed. You need this book if you're at all interested in playing piano. While playing the exercises isn't going to endear you to your neighbours, family or friends, I felt it has already started to improve the strength and control of my 4/5 fingers. The exercises are easy to remember so you don't need to drag the book around with you when you travel. My only slight complaint is that it doesn't look as if it has been re-typeset since 1900...
Can't recommend it enough . . . July 19, 2008
I teach piano, in addition to having played for over twenty years, and this book is essential. For my beginning students ages 8-adult, it's a great way for them to get started sight-reading using the interval-reading method as opposed to the note-reading method. The exercises will build up finger strength and dexterity, and make the note-patterns second nature. The scales and arpeggios are presented in a such a way that even my first-year students can do them with very little difficulty, as long as all the exercises are played in order.
For more advanced students, there's a way to liven up the exercises 1-20 so that even the most advanced students are challenged--play one exercise in one hand, and simultaneously play a different one in the other hand, then when that exercise is complete, switch them. After five minutes of this, you'll be asking yourself, "Who needs caffeine?" because you'll definitely be wide-awake!
This book also enforces good technique because it hurts if your fingers/hands are not used properly. There shouldn't be pain, throbbing or burning--you have relaxed hands and be able to play this all day long. If you can't, you need to see a teacher for a few lessons at a minimum, to fix your technique.
If you have any aspirations of playing piano well, this book is the place to start, and you'll be playing from it all your life . . . so just jump in and buy it!
 Building the fundamentals June 13, 2008
This book takes the budding pianist through exercise to strengthen fingers and build up agility and coordination. The exercises can be quite melodic themselves, especially as one builds up speed using increasingly fast settings on a metronome.
While repetitive and bound to drive your closest nuts, it is the best way to achieve a solid foundation as a piano player.
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