The Musicarta Hanon

Stretch your attention by combining one bar each of two exercises - for example, one bar of Exercise 1, then one bar of Exercise 2 and so on up and down the octave.

Your daily finger exercise practice offers a great opportunity to incorporate a methodical rhythmic component, and build up your syncopation skills.

There are two series - A-Z and AA.

Watch the introduction video to how the exercises work.

Knowing the Hanon exercises well provides an opportunity to develop critical keyboard skills other than simple dexterity.

Contrapuntal  composing techniques like canons and fugues require the hands to be  independent, so the second can play the same music starting a little  later than the first.

This mini-series applies the delayed-start canon construction to the familiar Hanon exercises.

Knowing the Hanon exercises well provides an opportunity to develop critical keyboard skills other than simple dexterity.

Contrapuntal  composing techniques like canons and fugues require the hands to be  independent, so the second can play the same music starting a little  later than the first.

This mini-series applies the delayed-start canon construction to the familiar Hanon exercises.

Only  Exercises 1, 2 and 4 work with the left-hand delayed-entry version  exactly the same as the right hand original. The rest require  modification to a greater or lesser degree, as discussed in each  instance.

The 'overlap' caused by the delayed entry of the left  hand demands some attempt at a musical ending at the end of each half.  The pupil should feel free to improvise his or her own.

Knowing the Hanon exercises well provides an opportunity to develop critical keyboard skills other than simple dexterity.

Contrapuntal  composing techniques like canons and fugues require the hands to be  independent, so the second can play the same music starting a little  later than the first.

This mini-series applies the delayed-start canon construction to the familiar Hanon exercises.

Only  Exercises 1, 2 and 4 work with the left-hand delayed-entry version  exactly the same as the right hand original. The rest require  modification to a greater or lesser degree, as discussed in each  instance.

The 'overlap' caused by the delayed entry of the left  hand demands some attempt at a musical ending at the end of each half.  The pupil should feel free to improvise his or her own.