Sustain Pedal for Piano
Hi Everyone,
I hope you're all healthy and doing reasonably well.
A pretty basic question, as usual. What is the difference between the piano pedal with the line and the one with the line and asterisk? I place the PED. marking under a note and extend the line to a note where i want the sustain to end but the notes are sustained beyond that until the end of the measure.
I want to have a sustain effect starting on a specific note and ending on another specific note for all the notes in between. Is this just a playback issue?
Have not been able to puzzle this one out per manual or discussion groups. Sorry, no example yet.
Thanks for any help!
David
Comments
They act the same. There are several common pedal notations and MuseScore endeavored to cover the most common ones.
In reply to They act the same. There are… by mike320
Hi Mike,
I'm not sure I was clear. I put the pedal mark under a first note and then extend the line to some further note along the staff but the sustain effect continues beyond the second note. I want to have the effect of releasing the pedal at the second note. Right now. it continues beyond the end of pedal line and to the end of the measure. Is there a setting for this?
Thanks!
David
In reply to Hi Mike, I'm not sure I was… by notescribe
@notescribe
Why not share your score by attaching the *.MSCZ file to this thread? It's quite hard to help you without seeing the notes.
For example, are you attaching the Ped. mark to the piano bass clef staff? Do you want the Ped. to stop at "the second note" on the bass clef staff, or does this second note occur on the treble clef staff?
In reply to Hi Mike, I'm not sure I was… by notescribe
As mentioned, without the score we can only guess. But one possibility is, you are only adjusting the visual length of the line and not actually changing which notes it attaches to. Once we see the score, we can advise better.
In reply to As mentioned, without the… by Marc Sabatella
I thought about that but that means he has an old version and updating to 3.5.2 would fix that.
In reply to I thought about that but… by mike320
As usual, I was operating in "genius" mode and entering the pedal from the bass line, as Daniel suspected and probably Marc and Mike as well. I've asked Mr. Peabody to explain all this and everything is clear now. Thanks!
David