Format : Sheet music + Audio access
With this newly-edited complete edition of the essential book of practice exercises The Virtuoso Pianist In Sixty Exercises is intended to help pianists acquire essential technical and practical skills. Themusic and text have been updated with a sleek modern design and the Download Card features audio demonstrations of every exercise. When Charles Hanon first published these sixty exercises in 1873 heintended for the common problems of young pianists to be remedied by the practising of these pieces. Problems like crossing the thumb the strength of the fourth and fifth fingers and the difference in right and left hand skillwere all common and still are today. The book itself however became dated making this new and revised edition necessary. Updated with a beautiful and modern new design these practice pieces are a joy to play and the includedDownload Card lets you hear them first so that you can play them exactly as they should be played. The method involves scales broken chords and other exercises split into three sections 'Preparatory' 'Transcendent' and 'Virtuoso'. Throughout descriptions help the student to better prepare themselves while recommended metronome ranges suggest tempos that the student can steadily increase. TheHanon Exercises have been praised and criticised over the years but with a sensible practice regime and their incorporation into a more musical and fun schedule some fantastic results canbe gained very quickly. For over a century these Hanon Exercises have been testing amateur and professional pianists helping them to work on common problems faced by all.With this updated version of the complete Virtuoso Pianist In Sixty Exercises you can aim to acquire the agility strength and suppleness that Hanon intended but with a clean and modern looking design and the
