Are you wondering what these mysterious golden
pedals on the piano do?
Hi, my name is Jazer.
Today I'm going to explain to you what these things are for.
And why pianists like myself use them.
So the right one here,
this is by far the most
commonly used one.
This is called either the sustain
or the damper pedal.
So if I were to play the notes on the
piano without the sustained pedal,
this is what it might sound like.
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let's see what it sounds like when I hold
the damper or the sustain pedal.
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as you would have heard,
using the sustain pedal makes a ton of difference.
It makes the music
a lot smoother.
A lot lushyer if that's a word.
So if I were to play a note,
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you can see how the little piece of felt
comes up.
And when I released the note,
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now what happens when our presses sustain
or the damper pedal is this.
If I press the pedal,
I'm going to press it now.
Now you would've seen that all
those
little pieces of wood have now
been moved up.
So that means any sound that I play,
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there is nothing stopping the sound after I
play each and every of these note
giving it sort of this
long
and a on beyond sound.
Next up we're going to be talking about the middle pedal.
The middle pedal is called the sostenuto pedal.
This pedal is not used very much.
I've been playing the piano for 16 years now,
and I have never ever used that before.
But he, it does a really cool thing. Let me show you what it does.
I like to think of that middle pedal
as sort of a semi pedal.
Here's what it does.
When you play one note,
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and you hold this pedal,
that note sustains
but nothing else.
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Let me show you again.
If I play, let's say this note
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and then I held the pedal.
That one would sustain
but nothing else.
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cool. Huh?
Lastly let's talk about that final one on the left.
This
pedal is called the Una Corda
or
The soft pedal.
The soft petals are pretty cool pedal.
When I press a soft pedal,
you'll see that the entire
keyboard actually does something pretty cool.
Have a look.
Did you see that?
So the moment I pressed the soft pedal,
the entire keyboard actually moves to the right.
Each time a piano hammer
hits
the strings,
it's hitting three strings to make
a sound
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You see how each
one of those,
each one of these notes,
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that's a total of three strings it's playing.
When I pressed
when I pressed this soft pedal,
the strings that are being hit now
are two instead of three.
So it changes
the
first thing the volume and also
the tone color.
So here's me not pressing the pedal
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here's me pressing the pedal.
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It's just slightly
softer
and it's a little warmer in my opinion.
So those are what the piano pedals are for
now if you are a pianist then you are having some problems
with playing with
the damper or the sustained pedal,
which is the most common one.
I have students who do maybe too much or too little
or perhaps they don't
know how to get the timing.
They're like, they come in too quickly or too slowly.
You can check on my next video
on how to use the sustain pedal properly.
So that's it for this video.
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