This site contains four sets of piano exercises, between 10 and 15 minutes each. It’s free but you can support the initiative by clicking on “donate”.
About piano exercices
All the existing methods, exercises and studies fascinates me. That’s why I spent hours in playing Hanon, Czerny, Cortot and others with the idea to cover all technical difficulties, to build a strong technique and to be able to play everything. My piano teachers never asked me to do that, and some pianists say exercises are not useful but the promises of these methods were very convincing.
But I faced some difficulties. The first one is time. As an amateur pianist I don’t have a lot of time to play and surely not for an hour of technical training each day. Sometimes it requires to repeat many times the same notes or transpose quite complex exercises. Some studies are very demanding for a specific difficulty.
Another difficulty is that there are so many combinations of notes, dynamic, duration, articulation that it’s impossible to train them all in a daily routine.
However I think that not doing exercises at all is also a problem. When I learn a piece of music I train for the specific difficulties of it and when I start a new one with other difficulties its takes a long time to rebuild my skills unless I make some exercises regularly.
How to maintain a maximum of technical skills in a minimum of time ?
I tried to answer this question by creating 4 set of exercices. They are a synthesis of many existing materials.
They are short sequences of notes to isolate difficulties, train all fingers equally and cover a lot of situations from very basic to more complex.
you will find the exercises on this site with scores and videos to make it even easier to understand.