Piano Warm up materials

Thought I should compile a list of things you can get for warm ups.

for piano.


Classical/General stuff:
Beyer - for beginners.

Hannon - very famous but pitfall is you don't really listen to your playing or left hand or doesn't really build much. Easy to start so

Czerny - numbers of technique practices, etc like hannon is there from this guy as well. Beside his 100, 120, 160 or something etudes books.

little pischna - find this a little more effective than hannon actually as left hand and right hand is doing something a little different and does require coordination. Contains excersizes that lets you switch hands keeping the material the same.


Bach - Invention
Highly recommended. It may be too difficult for beginners but you can just start doing this really slow. Even left, right separately without putting them together. If you can play, most of the scales, little pischna pretty easily you should have no problem playing these. Doing hannon in all 12 keys is another way to get your hand to do interesting things but I would say Bach inventions are a lot more musical and you can really start to incorporate your musical ideas into playing. Your scale practices will feel so different after playing these.

what you need to do is get a teacher to tell you how you should read trills, 8th notes, 16th notes so you will actually be doing baroque harpsichord style playing rather than Youtube.com fake versions - you don't want to show everyone that you don't know music so pay for one or two lesson and let them cover how to play them. If you want to go back to that person or not is up to you.