A Dozen A Day: Pre-Practice Technical Exercises For The Piano [Book 1 Primary]

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Each book offers six groups of twelve exercises, totalling 60 exercises per book and thus 360 across the full series. However you choose to introduce and use exercises from A Dozen A Day, remember that like any cycle of technical exercises, using them inappropriately won’t just potentially mitigate against any benefits, but could cause fresh problems for players.

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The aim is to learn two or three exercises at a time, which should be played each day before practising. Dozen A Day exercises naturally lend themselves to written theory too, building on all the points made above. Nota: Los envíos a España peninsular, Baleares y Canarias se realizan a través de mensajería urgente.I hope that the suggestions in this review will help teachers and learners alike to find fresh engagement with these little marvels. Encouraging a fresh look, publishers Willis Music brought out a bumper edition back in 2017, which I am going to be focusing on in this review. It is tempting to assume that a piano study book from the 1950’s won’t have aged well, that the material will be terribly dated. Edna-Mae Burnam’s six books of technical exercises, A Dozen A Day, quickly established themselves as classics in the piano pedagogy literature, and in the decades since their first appearance back in the 1950’s, their short routines and iconic illustrations have found their way into the hearts (and fingers) of developing pianists around the world, selling some 25 million copies.

A Dozen A Day: Pre-Practice Technical Exercises For The Piano

This book helped me with a series of very small and manageable exercises to improve my finger dexterity and flexibility. While A Dozen A Day exercises can be taught by rote in lessons as a quick fix when the primary objective is to understand and develop the technique they are introducing, they offer great sight reading material too. When these are mastered, add another, then another, and keep adding until the twelve can be played perfectly. Dozen A Day exercises can equally make great quick studies for the learner to work on during the week, without hearing or watching any teacher demonstration first. As such, they offer ideal material for practising transposition, discovering different shapes in each key, and adapting physical strategies to meet the needs of working with the black keys on the piano.There is much to enjoy in A Dozen A Day, including the exercises’ creative use of the whole instrument from the earliest stages, their adaptability, and the way that their good-natured, humorous characterisations stimulate the player’s imagination. I was struggling with the main pieces and especially with finger strength, flexibility and familiarity with common shapes and notes. Each book in this series contains short warm-up exercises to be played at the beginning of each practice session, providing excellent day-to-day training for the student. Can a basic Dozen A Day exercise be used as the core material for a piece which expresses a particular emotion, idea, story, mood or colour?