How To Use A Sustain Pedal - Piano Lesson (Pianote)
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- Опубліковано 15 лют 2018
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The sustain pedal. Once you get comfortable using this pedal, your playing will feel “naked” without it! It can be tricky to develop the coordination at first, but with practice and proper form, it will become second nature. Much like driving a manual transmission vehicle!
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The trick is to lift your foot when you hit the new chord, not to put your foot down when you hit the new chord.
yes but this is a bit trickier when you're playing melodies with lots of notes in rapid succession (like clair de lune)
Thank you!!!
Your comment really helped me with coordinating this in songs. Thank you so mucj
Thank you for saying this that’s what I am doing and why it sound horrible smh 🤦♂️
I am holding down going on a Chord smh I’m doing it wrong.
Anyone just keep their foot on the pedal and won't let go?
Me
same :/
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I always use the Pedal when I play the piano but I did not know you’re supposed to move your foot. So I’ll try that next time when I get asked to play the piano at my church. I also play the pipe Oregon to. I cover for our Piano list and organist when ever she’s out.
Thanks for this pedal tip, Lisa. I was deliberately looking for info about a muddy sound.
Simple. Well explained and beautiful to listen too. Perfect! Thank you.
Thank you, after practicing for a week, now I can use pedal continuously in any song
Great video! I’m learning how to play my keyboard and this helped a ton ☺️
Can you give us some tip to use the pedal with arpeggio? I am trying to learn some simple piece by Einaudi and am struggling a bit with my sounds be either cut short or too "muddy"... This channel is absolutely lovely and you are amazing btw : )
Thank you very much! Simple and to the point!
I'm nooby, using the "simply piano", have only 3 chapters left and they didn't say nothing about the pedal...
I tried it and it was muddy indeed 🤪
Now I'll try this again, thank you!
Did simply piano help you out?
@@sharpmanny23
For my surprise, yes, It did.
But I wasn't a "noob" noob.
I was playing from when I was 6 years old and for few years, so I was remembering and not learning.
Oh, and now I'm 33 years old so did a good break from the piano, didn't remember nothing when I started with simply piano.
In just few months of this app I started to play those songs there and to read shits.
Thanks I been thinking to try the piano apps but wasn't sure if they help. I'm a begginer that just watch UA-cam vedios and try to learn from there.
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I believe it will be good for you, for the basics.
You have few more apps, I can't tell you which better, I chose simply coz it is more "fun", wanted my girlfriend to try the to play the piano and not get bored from it.
The app has some cons but overall great for beginners.
Good luck 🙂
thanks again I will definitely look into it
Magical sustain pedal. 😎
So now I know how to do it when playing full chords, but how is it if I played c-minor but I‘d play c-d#-g after each other? And what should I do, if the left hand also plays a melody
My problem with it is chords on left hand + melody on the right, it's tricky to use the pedal there
Yeah for some reason, people can sustain the left hand chords but not the melody on the right. Not sure if they're recording two separate videos playing at the same time or idk some hack lol
@@CreativiTimothy On acoustic pianos, there is an extra peddle, which only sustains the notes you are currently playing. That's probably what you mean.
(maybe this answer is a little bit late lol)
@@lennix._.9874 Hey, can you explain this one further. I would like to learn how you would use the pedal when playing melody. I'm using a keyboard with only one pedal, but to understand better, it would be great if you can include how this works in acoustic piano. Thank you!
@@kylefalco8763 sorry for necro, it's called a Sostenuto pedal, it holds the notes that are held at the *moment* the pedal is pushed down until it is unpressed
Same here
Helpful, thank you!
Great THX now i Know what a Sustain Pedal does - GREAT
Большое спасибо 🙌🏻
So in a very short time, you do these *in order*: hand presses the keys for the chord => foot presses pedal ==> hand releases the keys (to go to the next chord) => foot releases pedal, and continue this cycle..... ? Am I getting it right?
I am playing a Waltz and ive no idea what to do with the pedal. There is an A and two chords the same in the first two bars and D and two different chords in the third and fourth bars. The music has pedal mark under the A and the first chord of the set of two and under the D and the first chord od the set of two. Not sure whete to lift thr pedal. That may not ne clear
Thanks! Great video!
But the chord changes like every 4 seconds, does the feet need to move that often? Every single bar? It doesn't seem like that's how often pianists move their feet?
When I lift my foot up the sound drastically change from sustain to choppy even when I press it back immediately. The difference is just too stark 😢
When i play piano and use pedals in the right way, the music sounds sometimes unstasfied, but when i record the music strangely it sounds nice.
Any other tip on how to do that smoothly with fast arpeggios like in Gosts by Muse for instance?
i love your teaching
Thanks for the quick tip.
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Thanks, Lisa!
Its easy when you are playing simple songs but what about when you play complicated songs like River flows in you or Nuvole Bianche? I cannot figure it out with the pedal at all so I have to keep it pressed.
I think river flows in you is structured like a pop song. I mean same simple chord progression throughout so I tend to use the pedal like how I would use it in a pop song (every chord change). For other complicated classical songs I don't know for sure 😅
What if you specifically practice river flows in you slowly with focus on pedal placement? And as already stated it makes sense to pedal between chord changes
Instructions weren’t clear I still don’t know Which pedal is reverse?
Great. Thanks
Thank you
intro music where can i get?
My issue is with keyboards most keyboards seem to adjust so when holding down the pedal the songs alway sound great but when going to a piano you will need more adjustments.
Thank you for the great explanations.
One thing I don't understand: do I still have to keep pressing the keys of the piano for the full duration of a half or whole note while pressing the pedal? Or can I just press and release the keys immediately (as if I played a quarter or an eighth note, for example)?
You can release, nothing will happen.
Wow, that is so awesome! Thank you for another great video, Lisa. May I ask a question? Is there any symbol on sheets that say "you should use a pedal at this moment"? Or, if I am composing and registering my music in sheets and want to say to whoever is trying to play my song "you should use a pedal at this moment"? Thank you so much
yeah theres a fancy writing thats very difficult to read that says *Ped."
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I understand the general rule as you demonstrated. Does it depend upon how it sounds to the player when to use the sustain pedal?
Yes it depends. Lisa does not like muddy, too many notes. She has a video on left hand accompaniment (sorry I'm on my browser if I spelled that wrong) on pianote.com She and the other teachers at Pianote are really great, the vibe I get is _clean & crisp_ (perfect timing too) for beginners and intermediates. My goal is to learn the most difficult Elton John comping (lots of notes each moment in both hands).
Good tip
Ive got 3 pedals on my keyboard stand, but i need to press down the middle pedal, and then it only sustains the keys ive pressed down at that excact moment, is some thing wrong?
You pressed the wrong sustain pedal. There are 2 sustain pedals, and you need to press the 2nd one, or the one on the right.
The hard part is when you play a fast melody. It gets real tricky to time the pedaling. I’m struggling with that part
I learned bohemian rhapsody and I just held it down the whole time and it got kinda muddy so yeah definitely good advice.
How about playing with octaves?? For example, right hand play with octaves and left hand play arpeggios.
every time the chord changes in left hand, thats when you switch!
Thanks "Clarissa explains it all!"
Why does every video I've found on proper posture for pedal use have high heels on?
I mean if you have flat bottom shoes with no heel (as a man) it's completely different since you don't have the support from the high heel to rise your heel upwards like in your case... :/
So what would be the correct posture when wearing no shoes for example?
I’m pretty sure it doesn’t matter all that much, as long as you can comfortably and quickly press and release, you’re fine
Yeah tks you so much
Thankieee!!
does it matter which leg should i use?
Not really if u use only one pedal
Advice needed..:/ got myself an e piano half a year ago and didn't think a lot about the pedal because I always had these ugly gaps when using it. "solved" the problem by just holding it down constantly. now I started to get into the pedal and now I realize all the songs I learned sound really ugly and messy. but I can play them well and fast, and when trying to use the pedal with these songs, I can't play them, can't keep up the speed. anybody with the same problem? I feel like all the work was for nothing :D should I have started earlier with the pedal ?
You probably spent hundreds of hours learning to play without the pedal, don't expect things to go smoothly when you suddenly add it in. Do exactly what you've been doing, practice, and it'll work, there's not much more to it. Practice, practice, practice more.
One thing you should probably start with is not focusing on keeping up with the speed you're used to. Slow it down while using the pedal properly and then work back up to the normal speed. If you try to stay at your usual speed while adding that new component in, it'll slow your learning down.
Slow down the speed, implement proper pedal use, then accelerate again.
God. It’s like learning to drive all over again
Can someone confirm that you want to lift the pedal the moment you press the next chord and just make sure to press the pedal before lifting off?
Obviously it's just a rule of thumb and it depends on how you want the sustain sound to be but yeah generally yes. If you want the chord sustained from chord to chord you do as you described
Sorry to ask a stupid question….is there such a thing as releasing the right foot too fast? Thank you so much
Too fast is when you lift your finger of the note playing already before applying the the sustain pedal.
2 years now i think you already figured it out😅.
If the note is sustained, there's no such thing as releasing too fast. You can play according to the sheets or your preference.
What about the other 2 pedals this video after the far right sustain pedal?
The left pedal is the soft pedal, so it makes everything softer. The middle pedal depends on your piano. Traditionally it's the "sostenuto" pedal, which means it sustains ONLY the notes that are pressed down when you push the pedal.
@@PianoteOfficial oh. Thx, But I prefer Sustain pedal. Now I have YamahaP125 last month was brought by my parents with a sustain pedal. I rather choose electric piano becuz its better than Acoustic piano.
@@cherylparr8302 yep. But now I have got noisy clunky keys for some reason.
Does the sustain also work while using your headphones to practice???
Yes. Join pianote.com and very soon no one will want you to use the headphones, they'll be singing along.
I wanna hear them singing to Beethoven's moonlight sonata 3rd movement ;)
@@DJSickey And fantasie impromptu
no wonder it sounds weird when I play... I thought my keyboard and my embers app was malfunctioning. turns out it was me holding the pedal and never letting go as I play.
So, after you play a chord, you lift your foot off?
Yes lift and then press down again, so you are only holding the new chord that you played. Otherwise things will get very messy haha
No, It’s when you hit the second one you need to lift and press quickly.
@@PianoteOfficial а как мне поближе сесть к фортепиано?
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just restarting after 30 years off. i remember my old teacher recommended lifting at the end of each phrase.
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What about the other 2 pedals on the left ?
hi, they just make the piano sound quieter, so they aren't generally used. the one on the most left will make the notes sound the most quiet, and it sounds like a jazz piano more. the middle pedal makes the overal sound of the piano 3/4 loud. hope it helps!
@@mouseplays1546 thanks
Do you lift your foot before or just after you play another chord ?
Yes, that's what I have seen. An American teacher taught me that it is better to lift the foot just after playing the new world ; doing so, the two chords are mixed together just for one moment and the link between them is created. What do you think about ?
You release the sustain-pedal immediately upon striking the next chord ie sustain should just bridge the gap and no more, else the chords'll blur.
@@craigcrushme Exactly !
What does the other two pedals do?
The pedal on the left is the "soft" pedal. On an acoustic piano it moves all the hammers slightly so they each hit one fewer string. The middle pedal is traditionally a "sostenuto" pedal, which means it sustains ONLY the notes that were being played when the pedal was pressed. However, on some upright piano it is also a soft pedal which lowers a piece of felt in front of the strings!
@@PianoteOfficial Здравствуйте как играть на фортепиано?
@@PianoteOfficial почему я жму педаль она почему слетает?🎹🎼
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Tried and true method 😅
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So its like double clutching a manual gear car
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It was hard until I realized it's like shifting gears in a car.
Hard to lift my foot with barefoot, need to lift my whole leg 😂. Or do i need to change my sitting position
Probably your sitting position. You should be able to pivot your foot up by the heel off the pedal.
Love watching your foot on the pedal xx
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Hi!
Will my upright piano get damaged if I use the practice pedal everyday?
'cause I get a different sound when I unlock the pedal
Plz reply
No..... absolutely not.....first of all practice pedal is different......you have a upright piano so when you press practice pedal a fabric comes between the strings and the hammers, therefore, softening the sound.....
TIL not to hold it down the whole time... whoops :D
Sustain pedal throws me off
OOOOH I thought I just bought bad keyboard
Do i need to wear heels to do this correctly?
No :)
You Should Speak Ofen Instade of Often 🤣🤣🤣
No son tacos altos sexys para apretar pedales mi amor.
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