This site contains four sets of piano exercises, between 10 and 15 minutes each. They cover a lot of piano technique topics. It’s free but you can support the initiative by clicking the “donate” button.
If you are new in the piano world, welcome ! I recommend you to start with a piano teacher. It is an opportunity to learn faster without reinventing everything by yourself.
About piano exercices
All the existing methods, exercises and studies for piano 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.
However I faced some difficulties. As an amateur pianist I don’t have a lot of time to play. When exercises must be repeated many times its just boring. They may be complex and demanding for a specific difficulty. In my experience I was sometimes exhausted before the end of the technical training and unable to focus on a piece of music.
In fact 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 it contains and forget the others. Then, when I start a new piece with other difficulties its takes a long time to rebuild my skills.
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 play.
Let’s discover how to use these exercises in a piano routine…