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[Arnaude Kubiak]

My friend, who used to play piano, taught me to hold the pedal down when there is an arc in either the treble or bass. So basically I'm holding the pedal down whenever there's an arc anywhere, and my foot is off the pedal when there is no arc.

I feel like I am doing the pedal wrong. In the above link it says that the arc only indicates legato and doesn't have anything to do with the pedal. But isn't legato implied everywhere since staccato is indicated by notes with a dot?

Your digital piano is equipped with a damper, or "sustain" pedal. When depressed, notes will continue to ring until the pedal is released or they fade away on their own. Without the pedal, notes will only ring as long as you hold down the key.

If we had 88 fingers, we wouldn't need the sustain pedal because we could control each note's sustain individually with the key. [Yes, I know this is an oversimplification.] However, music is often written such that certain notes or passages (more than we have fingers for at one time) should ring out until we reach a point; usually a chord change.

To learn when the notes SHOULD sustain, your suspicion about the Ped. and * symbols are correct: 'Ped.' signifies you should press and hold the pedal, and '*' signifies it should be released. You may also see an upwards-facing bracket underneath the bottom staff with upside-down 'V's along it, signifying that the pedal should be quickly released and repedaled at those points.

You will eventually use your musical intuition in addition to notation to figure this out. Take Debussy's Arabesque No. 1, for example. This piece is typically bathed in pedal, but the edition will generally not explicitly define it.

Say you had some [bigchord]s, one after another, all different. You need to lift your hands from the keys of the first [bigchord] to set up for the next [bigchord], but doing so would cause the sound to stop while your hands are off the keys, and you want these [bigchord]s to connect (perhaps they are under a slur or legato 'arc'). You would depress the pedal in time to hit the first [bigchord], lift your hands to set up for the next [bigchord] (while the first is still ringing under the pedal), then release the pedal right as you play the next [bigchord], with your hands; repedaling before you release the hands from the keyboard to play the next [bigchord]. This sequence of resetting the pedal at the press of each chord is quite common.

On a real piano, each repetition of this would be lowering the dampers to the strings briefly, in effect "canceling" the set of harmonies that was ringing from the previous chord in time to play the next chord. If you had just held down the pedal through the entire sequence, each subsequent chord would add dissonance to the notes of the first chord that are still sustaining. Notes of different chords typically clash with one another in a typical tonal context.

Not playing staccato does not imply legato. Staccato simply asks for space by shortening the note in question. A note with neither an arc or dot is just a note of its full rhythmic value. Notes under an arc, legato, are specifically meant to be connected. In a single line, this may mean each note blends into the last one before it is released. With chords, this typically requires use of a pedal to sustain the sound before each articulation.

On a real piano, every string has a damper resting on it, muting it until it is played. When you strike a key, the damper lifts from the string before the hammer strikes the string. Then the damper remains lifted until you release the key, so the note continues to sound. When you release the key, the damper returns to its resting position, normally ending the note.

When you hold down the sustain pedal all the dampers are lifted away from the strings. Now when you play a note, it sustains for as long as the string has energy. When you release the pedal, any notes that you're not still holding on the keyboard, end.

Holding down the sustain pedal also has the effect that every string on the piano will resonate with other sounds in the room, or notes played on the piano itself. This is why a pedal "adds power to a chord". Play a middle C with the sustain pedal held down, and every other C, or harmonic thereof, on the piano will resonate.

A pianist doesn't have these options. He must strive to create the same sense of continuity between notes while actually playing separate notes. It's subtle, involving precise timing and control of dynamics. However it doesn't normally involve the sustain pedal.

It's important to note that in the absence of a slur, it's not always necessary to sound a note for its full length. A composer will often write a crotchet rather than clutter the score with a dotted quaver followed by a semiquaver rest. Musical scoring is not precise, and you have the creative freedom to release a note whenever you like. The slur mark is a hint that you should run it into the next note.

I am in general agreement with the other answers. The principal purpose of the pedal is to not mute notes, so they can be connected more easily. This should be done as directed by the music (either through notation, or the implied structure). Slurs between two notes should generally be played legato with the hands, but can be helped by the pedal. Phrasing slurs (i.e., slurs encompassing many notes, beats, or measures) should almost never be played "pedal down the whole time". They are instead meant to imply melodic structure to the performer, who interprets the music and uses the pedal as needed.

For left hand only: At 0:02 (first measure), the author pressed the D key. I thought it should be B. Again at 0:05 (2nd measure) the author pressed a B flat instead of a G flat. Again at 0:09 (third measure) The author pressed a G instead of an E. Etc. It looked like the author brought those notes 3 half steps up. When I played like as it has shown on the sheet, it did not sound right. But I played like her finger then it sounded better.

The middle -C- is notated on the ledger line, if you play from there upstairs with the r.h. starting with the thumb 1-2-3-4-5 you play the notes c,d,e,f,g etc. like you know. Finger 5 is now on the note G on the 2nd line of the upper staff, where the treble clef at the beginning of the staff assigns the note G. (it is derived from the letter G.)

Now if you play downstairs with the left hand starting with the thumb on the middle C the tones 1-2-3-4-5 you play the notes c-b-a-g-f. Finger 5 is now on the key F (4th line in the lower stave) corresponding to the Bass-clef that marks the note F (derived from the letter F).

As you see the scale up from the middle C is mirroring with the scale down from the middle C, thus the position of the notes is different. You have misread the notes. The note names of the scales are the same - but their position is different like it is different in the 2 ocatavas in the upper system.

I think it is a bad method to say the names in the lower system are differing a third - like you could think when you compare what is played in the video and what you thought it would be: you misread about a third, because you thought the notes have the same position in both staffs.

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Traditionally, classical piano lessons emphasize notation. But you may have heard that world-class musicians like the Beatles and Taylor Swift never learned how to read music. So how important is reading sheet music, really?

Think of music as a language. In Western music tradition, notes are letters that make up chords, which are words. Patterns like sequences, scales, and arpeggios are sentences. And theory is the grammar system music is built on.

But. I now make the choice to sit down and read music. I think a big misconception is the difference between reading music and sight reading. I think people would have a very different experience if they knew this because you can actually learn to read music rather quickly. And if you are passionate about a genre like classical, the fact that you want that skillset will make a huge impact.

On the flip side, even if you want to play pop music, there have been many occasions where I was not able to sound out something by ear, and so I would refer to notation. So, reading music has been very helpful even for a person who leans more toward using their ear.

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