Hanon

Pros

• I bought Alfred's adult piano books and a few theory books & I think hanon.
• Do you have a technique routine included in your practice? Scales, Chords, arpeggios and even hanon?
• A lot of people here hate it, but I honestly think it’s essential for learning how to play more fluently. It is a lot of exercises designed to teach your fingers certain techniques.
• Then I'll typically do some sort of Etude study such as Czerny, Hanon, or the like.
• As to the rest things I try to do all technical exercises (scales, Hanon etc) in the morning and practice sight-reading in the evening.

Cons

• Hanon: you should burn this book. Nothing to do with the edition, Hanon just sucks. Very bad for your technique.
• Hanon contains actively bad piano pedagogy, but there is value in using the patterns of its exercises while not applying that pedagogy, I suppose.
• Each étude will be focused on a specific skill and they’re fun enough that youre still learning to play a ‘piece’ instead of doing drills like Hanon for finger dexterity.
• It’s boring but I think Hanon will act as your toolbox 🧰 if u can get through some of those exercises I think you’ll find at least the moving fingers part of piano less painful.
• Hanon vs. no Hanon