Hanon, Charles-Louis - Le Pianiste Virtuose en 60 Exercices, No. 46

Le Pianiste Virtuose en 60 Exercices, No. 46, composed by Charles-Louis Hanon in 1873.

Performed by Mushyrulez in Vancouver on Friday, July 27th, 2012.

Accompanying blog article:
http://onewdesign.wordpress.com/2012/...

Le Pianiste Virtuose en 60 Exercices playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...

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[77katsumoto]

Practicing No.46 at 60bpm must be the ultimate test of patience! I see can that Hanon is a path not only to physical virtuosity, but to mental virtuosity as well! haha

Anyway, switching fingers during trills looks so awesome!

[Mushyrulez]

It's actually 108bpm, haha. It's hard for me to sync the finger-changes, especially descending (as you'll notice), since the pinky and thumb get one-half the exercise of the other fingers in this exercise...

[77katsumoto]

Yeah, but before getting to 108bpm you have to practice it on slower tempos, starting at 60bpm, right? So, what I meant is that the practicing which comes before the final tempo appears to be veeery painstaking, since it's a very long exercise!

By the way, I have begun to practice Hanon myself, inspired by your series! Since I am using a digital piano, I will not overdo it, which means I will not go all the way to 108bpm.

[Mushyrulez]

Ohhh, right, haha.

(To be fair, I never actually knew a third Hanon book existed until about a year ago, so most of the skills I have actually came from playing other random pieces. Sshhh, don't tell anyone >_>;;)