The Virtuoso Pianist, Exercise No. 6

Charles-Louis Hanon · Level 3 (Late beginner) · study · Piano

An exercise from The Virtuoso Pianist (1873), part one: a five-finger pattern repeated up and down two octaves, for evenness and finger independence. C major, 2/4, 29 bars (about one minute), complete score.

▶ Play this piece with the interactive score

How to practise it

• Listen first: the site plays it while the score scrolls.
• Wait mode: the score waits for you at every note, at your own pace.
• Tempo challenge: play in time, with a score and a map of the bars you got right.
• Rounded fingers, loose and quiet wrist; play legato and perfectly even with the metronome, starting around 60 to the quarter. Fast writing: work section by section in Wait mode, then in dotted rhythms, and raise the tempo in steps of 5–10%.

More pieces by Charles-Louis Hanon

• The Virtuoso Pianist (Part I) — Hanon17
• The Virtuoso Pianist (Part I) — Hanon20
• The Virtuoso Pianist, Exercise No. 1
• The Virtuoso Pianist, Exercise No. 2
• The Virtuoso Pianist, Exercise No. 3
• The Virtuoso Pianist, Exercise No. 4
• The Virtuoso Pianist, Exercise No. 5
• The Virtuoso Pianist, Exercise No. 7

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