Learning Hanon - Part 3

Hi, this is Robert Estrin with livingpianos.com and virtualsheetmusic.com.

With actually, a viewer asks, "How much should you practice exercises?". This is actually the part three of Hanon. There are two other videos about how to practice Hanon. Hanon is the kind of the bible of piano exercises, one of them. And the viewer, Joe, asks about Hanon and Czerny.

A lot of people practice these exercises, so this is a great topic, I'm glad to bring it to you. Well, you know, you can get hung up with practicing too much exercises. Why would that be a problem? Well, the beautiful thing about the piano, as I've talked about before, is the wealth of great music. Why practice strict exercises when you can get the same benefit from music? But there are some times when you really could hone in on a specific technical problem that perhaps the music alone does not address.

Scales and arpeggios are a perfect example of that. So in answer to the question, "How much should you practice?" Well, generally speaking, it should be more or less a warm up of your exercise that you use in your daily practice. Maybe ten minutes if you do it religiously everyday. It'll get a great benefit for you. Like doing any kind of exercise, it's the consistency that's most important.

Now if you're really in a period of your musical development on your instrument, and you want to put a lot of time into exercises to develop strength, that understandable. Still, I would not neglect repertoire. It is all about learning music, and sure, Chopin etudes and Liszt etudes, you can get so much from those.

So, if you find you're spending the majority of your time on exercises, I think you might be out of balance. Make it a small part of your daily practice and you should get the most benefit that way. Thanks for joining me, Robert Estrin, here at livingpianos.com and virtualsheetmusic.com, until next time.

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