Green Hat Music School
Hanon,
decoded.
The 20 exercises of The Virtuoso Pianist, Part I, reduced to four moves you can see at a glance. Each exercise comes as two short videos that work together: a clean diagram, and the score and the piano.
The four moves
Every Hanon exercise is made of these.
Fingers reach farther than natural. The hand opens.
Fingers skip over their neighbours. The hand keeps its position.
Step by step through the space, one finger per key.
Fingers come closer than natural. The hand closes.
Yellow stripes mark the moves that change or break the natural position of the hand. Gray is the quiet one: the fill.
How to read it
Fingers, notes, symbols.
The circle is the finger. The letter under it is the note.
The band under two circles is the move between them.
A dotted bubble groups the fingers that one move connects.
- Extension
- Jump
- Fill
- Contraction
Hanon No. 3, right hand going up: extension, jump, fill, contraction.
The exercises
Twenty exercises, four ways each.
Every exercise is shown for the right hand and the left, going up and coming down. The round sign is the exercise's glyph.
Hanon No. 1
Hanon No. 2
Hanon No. 3
Hanon No. 4
Hanon No. 5
Hanon No. 6
Hanon No. 7
Hanon No. 8
Hanon No. 9
Hanon No. 10
Hanon No. 11
Hanon No. 12
Hanon No. 13
Hanon No. 14
Hanon No. 15
Hanon No. 16
Hanon No. 17
Hanon No. 18
Hanon No. 19
Hanon No. 20
Two videos, one idea
Diagram and score, side by side.
Diagram strips the exercise down to circles and symbols so you grasp it in seconds. Score + piano puts the same symbols on the staff and on the keys, so you know where to look when you play.
Both use the same timeline, so you can watch one, then the other.