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Rock Hanon: 70 Exercises for the Beginning to Professional Pianist.(Book Review)
Rock Hanon: 70 Exercises for the Beginning to Professional Pianist, by Peter Deneff. Hal Leonard Corporation (7777 W. Bluemound Rd., P.O. Box 13819, Milwaukee, WI 53213), 2003. 136pp. $12.95.
Peter Deneff's Rock Hanon presents a set of seventy graded exercises in rock style. Deneff exploits rock idioms, such as rapidly repeated chords, ostinato bass lines and syncopated rhythms, but with little variation of content.
The set begins with repeated root-position chords as triplets, ascending stepwise in C major (No. 1), and provides the basis for most of the book. No. 4 presents the same series of triads but includes both inversions. The pattern is repeated in No. 6 as first-inversion shapes exclusively and as second-inversion shapes in No. 7. The root-position chords return in No. 11 but move chromatically through all twelve major keys. No. 13 presents the pattern again through all twelve minor keys. Likewise, the inverted pattern in No. 4 repeats itself in Nos. 15 and 16 in all twelve major and minor keys, respectively.
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