Charles-Louis Hanon: Virtuoso Pianist in 60 Exercises - Book 3: Piano:

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

Selections from Parts 1 and 2-While nearly every pianist's training includes the renowned exercises of Charles-Louis Hanon the power and weight of the modern grand requires an updated approach. This unique edition introduces vital pianistic warm-ups and routines that ensure correct gesture and relaxation. The pedagogical sequence omits inefficient and potentially damaging exercises and presents a long-needed pathway for dexterity and gesture that newly advances the virtuoso pianist. Includes selected exercises from Hanon's The Virtuoso Pianist Parts 1 and 2 New transformative warm-ups develop gesture dexterity and virtuosity For students in Levels 3A 3B andabove

A very easy to read edition revised and re-translated to create a clear and correct version of The Virtuoso Pianist.

Revised Edition-Inspired by Charles-Louis Hanon's The Virtuoso Pianist — the essential technical method for any classical player — these new volumes present a modern-day equivalent for the musician seeking to play the key piano styles ofthe 20th century.Each book develops basic technique and true facility in each genre through authentic progressive exercises and etudes.The music in these books is fun to play for pianists at every level buildingthe necessary skills in each style while providing extensive musical and stylistic insight.

Revised Edition-Inspired by Charles-Louis Hanon's The Virtuoso Pianist — the essential technical method for any classical player — these new volumes present a modern-day equivalent for the musician seeking to play the key piano styles ofthe 20th century.Each book develops basic technique and true facility in each genre through authentic progressive exercises and etudes.The music in these books is fun to play for pianists at every level buildingthe necessary skills in each style while providing extensive musical and stylistic insight.

A solid finger dexterity equally well developed with regard to precise touch and time has been until today the alpha and omega of piano technique. The school Le Pianiste-Virtuose by H.L. Hanon the object of which is above all the development of a brilliant five fingers technique has therefore not lost any of its high pedagogic value; these exercises not only present a solid foundation for the pupil but also help the expert pianist to maintain his technique on its high level. Hanon's exercises are an exhaustive compendium of piano-technical foundations.