Playing the piano yesterday evening, it struck me that pedalling could follow the slurs....does anybody do this???

Slurs mean notes played legato, which is not the same thing as sustaining eeach note on until the end of the slur.

If you just hold the pedal down slurs you could well end up running clashing harmonies together.

Yeah that's what I thought...OK, back to the drawing board!

QUOTE (Oddball @ Mar 30 2005, 01:36 PM)

Playing the piano yesterday evening, it struck me that pedalling could follow the slurs....does anybody do this???

Absolutely not! What piece are you trying to pedal?

Just some basic stuff.....

OK! I'm sorry

Pftt...you people and your pedals! I ain't got no pedal on my crappy keyboard!

yea i do that.....i abuse the pedal. But i dont care, im just playing for fun.

Hmm, I think I may abuse the pedal slightly too much in one of my compositions for GCSE...pedal down for the full duration of each bar

Does sound pretty decent, but it doesn't seem right, so I probably need to work on that...somehow

QUOTE (MattD @ Mar 31 2005, 12:21 AM)

Pftt...you people and your pedals!  I ain't got no pedal on my crappy keyboard!

That makes it a very good preparation for playing the organ.

QUOTE (Oddball @ Mar 30 2005, 02:05 PM)

Yeah that's what I thought...OK, back to the drawing board!

Ahem...don't you mean back to your piano?