Hanon Exercise No. 2
About this arrangement
Hanon marks the fingers to train as 3-4. Once it is learned, he suggests playing Nos. 1 and 2 together four times without a break. Here he also says that this exercise and the ones after it, up to No. 31, are meant to make the weak fourth and fifth fingers as strong as the second and third.
The jump from 2 to 5 (E up to A) opens the hand. Keep the wrist level as you land on A instead of reaching with the elbow. Use a metronome, lift each finger and play every note clearly, and keep both hands exactly together.
Start with short loops.
Use the section list as a practice map. Start at 50% tempo, loop one section, then return to the full piece once the hand shape feels stable.
Choose Right or Left to focus on one hand. Wait for note checks the highlighted notes as you play them on the screen or a connected MIDI keyboard.
Engraving based on the Mutopia Project edition , licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.
Before you practice.
01 What does Hanon No. 2 train?
It works the third and fourth fingers. Both hands play the same pattern an octave apart.
02 Should I practise hands separately?
Start with each hand alone for a few minutes, then play both together. Hanon wrote the hands an octave apart so the left hand gets the same work as the right.
03 How long is Hanon No. 2?
Our edition has 29 bars: 14 going up, then the same figure coming down. The whole exercise repeats once.