Hanon Exercise No. 44
About this arrangement
This is the first exercise of Part III, which Hanon calls virtuoso exercises for obtaining a mastery over the greatest mechanical difficulties. He asks you to lift the fingers high and with precision, without raising the hand or wrist, and to take up the rest of the exercise only once the first four bars are well learned.
Change finger on every repeat, 3, 2, 1 on the same key, and let the key rise a little before the next finger plays. Stay on the first four bars until the three notes of each group sound the same. Use a metronome 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.
Before you practice.
01 What does Hanon No. 44 train?
Fast repeated notes with a change of finger (3-2-1) on the same key, in both hands an octave apart.
02 How fast should I play Hanon No. 44?
Hanon's marking is a quarter note = 60 to 120. Start at 60 and raise the speed a little at a time, only when every note is even.
03 How long is Hanon No. 44?
Our edition has 38 bars: four bars on C, a 12-bar scale in repeated notes and a 21-bar broken-chord section, each repeated, then a final C.