Technique
Each exercise has a tempo goal. Start slower, play it cleanly, and step the tempo up — your fastest clean run is kept.
Hanon, The Virtuoso Pianist
In C, as Hanon wrote them. He asks for ♩ = 60 at first, working up to 108.
Five-finger patterns
One finger per note, in every major key — the first technique for beginners.
- Five-finger pattern in C majorEach finger on its own note · up and down in quarters, then eighthsGoal ♩ = 120
- Five-finger pattern in G majorEach finger on its own note · up and down in quarters, then eighthsGoal ♩ = 120
- Five-finger pattern in D majorEach finger on its own note · up and down in quarters, then eighthsGoal ♩ = 120
- Five-finger pattern in A majorEach finger on its own note · up and down in quarters, then eighthsGoal ♩ = 120
- Five-finger pattern in E majorEach finger on its own note · up and down in quarters, then eighthsGoal ♩ = 120
- Five-finger pattern in B majorEach finger on its own note · up and down in quarters, then eighthsGoal ♩ = 120
- Five-finger pattern in F♯ majorEach finger on its own note · up and down in quarters, then eighthsGoal ♩ = 120
- Five-finger pattern in D♭ majorEach finger on its own note · up and down in quarters, then eighthsGoal ♩ = 120
- Five-finger pattern in A♭ majorEach finger on its own note · up and down in quarters, then eighthsGoal ♩ = 120
- Five-finger pattern in E♭ majorEach finger on its own note · up and down in quarters, then eighthsGoal ♩ = 120
- Five-finger pattern in B♭ majorEach finger on its own note · up and down in quarters, then eighthsGoal ♩ = 120
- Five-finger pattern in F majorEach finger on its own note · up and down in quarters, then eighthsGoal ♩ = 120