Pedal Trouble
I am trying to use pedal as a means of achieving a guitar "let ring" to sustain notes but it's not quite behaving as expected. I have customised the standard pedal symbol to a simple "r" for ring.
In this sample I expected the G in measure 1 to ring to the end of the measure and the E to ring right through to the following E in the second measure.
What actually happens is that the first G stops ringing when the first E starts. The first E rings correctly but the second G also rings even though it has no ring applied.
I guess that I have probably misunderstood how pedal is supposed to work so your help would be appreciated.
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Pedals are applied to entire instruments, not notes, because that's the way they work on pianos. There is no need for the two pedals on the same beats. If you turn the volume way up, you will hear the first G ring through the entire first measure and even be reinforced when the second measure G is playing. I'm using a sound font that defaults to a piano sound on your score and it probably decays (fades) slower than the guitar.
In reply to Pedals are applied to entire… by mike320
Thanks for the info. It appears that pedal won't work for guitar ring.
If I set the first E to NOT play then I can very clearly hear that the first G just stops dead with no fading. I'll go back to multi voice editing for now.
My pedals were on different beats as I did not understand that it applies to the whole instrument and I was assuming notes. This also makes sense of the second G ringing since it was enclosed in a pedal range.
In reply to Thanks for the info. It… by yonah_ag
Just to explain to you: a piano pedal lifts all the dampers on all the strings. Any note played (key pressed) while the pedal is depressed, will keep ringing even if you let go of the key, because the damper is lifted by the pedal and not only by the key you pressed. This is how the pedal physically work on a piano. If you press a key without depressing the pedal, the action lifts the damper and lets it fall down again when you let the key go.
Just some unnecessary extra info ;-)
In reply to Just to explain to you: a… by Louis Cloete
Thanks Louis, that gives me a better understanding and I can see how this is different to guitar notes ringing where it can be applied to the strings individually. I had no idea that piano notes could keep ringing without the keys being pressed.