Hanon Exercise No. 9
About this arrangement
Hanon describes it as an extension of the fourth and fifth fingers and a general finger exercise.
Each finger plays and then the one before it answers. Make the answering note as clear as the first one. 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. 9 train?
It works the stretch between the fourth and fifth fingers. Both hands play the same pattern an octave apart.
02 How fast should I play Hanon No. 9?
Hanon's marking is a quarter note = 60 to 108. Start at 60 and raise the speed a little at a time, only when every note is even.
03 How long is Hanon No. 9?
Our edition has 29 bars: 14 going up, then the same figure coming down. The whole exercise repeats once.