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After working up Exercise 7, taking a break from Hanon, then coming back and recording Exercise 7, I think I'm ready to move on to Exercise 8.

This next exercise really plays to my weakness - runs of notes in the left hand that use fingers 2-3-4-5 in a non-sequential order. The 1-2-4-5-3-2-4-3 runs in the second half of the exercise are giving me fits right now. Real tough to play at any tempo without flubbing the left hand. No problem in the right hand though (I am right-handed).

Hopefully it will get easier as the week wears on...

thanks Colin!!

Welcome Aboard/Back!!!!

Week 9, Exercise 8

Deadline for completion - Midnight (YOUR TIME!) Sunday 11th March.

Exercises available here (thanks Ina and Dannlux)

http://www.pianoworld.com/ubb/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?/topic/32/3484.html

Particpants are: (drumroll please)


Confirmation given? (Audio or Written)

Stephenc:

C7 Player:

Euan Morrison

Debussy20: DONE 1-20!!

TrainLady

Reader:

Tana:

NancyM333:

Colin Dunn:

Agilita

Joey:

seraf

Piano&Violin:

Par

Katefields1: written

Debrina: written

Op30no3:

Agent:

seesusiplay:

cruiser:

Please post a recording by the deadline (if possible) to recieve a tick of approval as each exercise is completed. If you cannot post a recording, just let us know when you feel you've got the exercise under your fingers and I will check you off as having provided written confirmation (maybe let us know what tempo you can play the exercise and any problem areas you encountered.)

******Please indicate if comments are welcome for recordings (please refrain from commenting unless they are welcomed) ********************

Feel free to join us at anytime, and also, feel free to post any questions and other thoughts and tips on this thread.

Week 21 may be a real challenge...ex 1-20 all in a row!!!

List of exercises completed by member:

Stephenc: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

C7 Player: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

Euan Morrison: 1

LovesChopinTooMuch: 1 WITHDRAWN

Debussy20: 1,2,3,4,5....20!

TrainLady: 1,2,3

Reader: 1,2

Tana: 1,2,3,4

NancyM333: 1,2,3,4,5,6

Ragnhild: 1,2 WITHDRAWN

Triryche: 1 WITHDRAWN

Eeeff: 1 WITHDRAWN

Colin Dunn: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

Agilita: 1,2,3

Joey: 1,2,3,4,5,6

seraf: 1

Piano&Violin: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

Hobo57: 1,2 WITHDRAWN

Par

Katefields1: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

Debrina: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

Shimmer: 1,2,3 WITHDRAWN

Mountain Ash: 1 WITHDRAWN

Op30no3: 4,5,6

Agent: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

seesusiplay:

cruiser: 1,2

Hi,

please check the list to see that you've not been shortchanged in exercises completed.


I've not yet looked at ex 8, ex 5 and 7 are still on my boilerplate but very close to being right, so, hopefully I'll get back on track soon!

I've completed exercise 8. I've been working hard to get ahead because I'm going to be away from the piano for 10 days starting this Friday. Good luck to all on ex 8!

I need a little more work on 8 but should have it down by midnight Sunday!

I'll post over the weekend when I think I am done.

Hi stephenc, I posted my recording for Ex 6.

got it Agent - nice work!

Well my motivation is sky high now that I've got 5 and 7 recorded, had a brief look at eight and it doesn't look so bad but i'm sure it will be!

10 days C7 Player - I'm not sure i'd survive being away from a piano such as your's for so long! ( it is one of my dream piano's BTW!)

Okay, I have completed #8, finally. This was a toughie, but I played it three times tonite w/ no glitches. However, I was not real speedy -- maybe 70? but I was, out of necessity, working on accuracy. Much easier ascending than descending (those left 4th and 5th fingers really get a work out!).

I am still hanging in w/ the Hanon die hards! The extra week did certainly help.

Struggling to keep up. I posted my recording for Ex 7. It's not perfect but I need to start working on Ex 8 before I fall too far behind. Thanks to this group there is peer pressure to keep up with the exercises.

Hi,

You can mark me as completed for #8! I did it right at 40, and did it almost right at 50.

I just completed Hanon book 1. Will there be a book 2 challenge beginning soon?

Man #8 is a bear!

Can I make a suggestion? stephenc, would it be too much trouble to post the links to the previous exercises? Similar to how they do it with the rehearsals.

Just to make sure: at what point do we call an exercise "completed"? I'm working on 9 now, and am only doing 1 thru 4 as run-throughs. I can't play them at the posted speed in the book yet, so does that make them incomplete?

-- susi

Hi susi,

Although it's called the Hanon challenge, this isn't a competition so there's no proof or speed requirement. When you feel you've gotten whatever benefit you can get from an exercise at a given point in time then call it done and move on. I'm sure all of us will play them better and/or faster should we continue to revisit them in the future but whether or not you do that is completely up to you.

I think it's the case for all the exercises that after learning them and playing them for a week there is a point of diminishing returns where continued practice at that time doesn't yield much benefit, i.e., if you can play an exercise well at MM 60 continuing to pound on it to try to get to MM 100 yields little benefit. However, I do think continuing to play them on a regular basis does yield results.

Bottom line: it's your call when you think you've "completed" an exercise.

Great post Greg! I didn't think of it that way but you're right. One of the benefits of this group is it keep us moving along and prevents us from becoming stuck trying to perfect something. Being a Type A myself I am guilty of this on occasion

Greg, thank you for that. I will call 1 thru 4 complete, then, because I'm not including them in my warm-up anymore, only as run-through's for reinforcement. I'll look at 5 and 6 again today; 7,8, and 9 definitely need more work.

Whew!

- susi

Greg, thank you for that. I will call 1 thru 4 complete, then, because I'm not including them in my warm-up anymore, only as run-through's for reinforcement. I'll look at 5 and 6 again today; 7,8, and 9 definitely need more work.

Whew!

- susi