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Pentatonic Hanon Exercises
~ PentHan 29-12-19 ~

Pentatonic Hanon 29-12-19 (minor)

Watch the video, trying to memorise the pitch (up/down) 'contour'.

The right hand uses both chromatic passing tones (CPT).

The left hand uses the pentatonic scale plus CPTs on the way up. On the way down it uses a variety of scale tones including the major and minor sixths and a flattened second.

The pattern repeats rising by whole tones from C to G sharp.

Download the MS PDF using this link.

Notice the right hand treble clef: it has a little '8' under it. Musicarta uses this to indicate "Play an octave lower than written"; it's a useful way of avoiding a lot of ledger lines. (This is optional, though.)

The right hand uses

Easy octave

Here's an 'easy octave' introduction in D minor.

The difficult pair

F sharp minor and G sharp minor both start on black keys - a challenge.

This section suggests you give your hand the opportunity to discover a relative position vis-a-vis the keyboard and some fingering that allows you to play the pattern in these two difficult keys.

The improvising musician can't know the fingering in advance: he or she has to 'know how to finger' instead.