I first listened to this on speakers after they first released it and thought "I love DLF. And this version is just a delight." I heard it again with my headphones on and I might be crazy, but I think I can hear the piano pedal coming through mostly the right channel. Does anyone else hear it and if so, is this intentional? I'd assume so but I ain't an audio engineer.
Hello,
In my work, I need to pan - a lot!
That means hold down scroll button and move the mouse.
I see lots of foot pedals available but I can't tell if they specifically provide what I'm looking for: Foot down for engaging pan / foot up to release. Like a sustain pedal of a piano.
I'm worried the pedal I buy will only toggle (step to start pan. step again to release pan) which is not what I want.
Can anyone recommend a simple single pedal that works like piano pedal?
Hello all! I've started learning how to play the organ recently (got a Hammond SK2 and built a pedalboard, thanks to an Italian company that provided the materials for it, to play at home) and I have some questions about pedal technique.
I initially had an organ teacher who recommended the First Organ Book by Wayne Leupold, but right as I got the book an was getting ready to learn, I got a new job and moved. Enter pandemic, etc. etc. so I hope, after some big work commitments coming up, to try and find a new organ teacher. But for now, I hope to practice and learn from the First Organ Book.
A lot of the book's tips resonated with me from my experience learning the piano—mentally practicing the music, how one learns/memorizes music, developing musicality, etc. But when it comes to playing the pedals, I'm a bit lost.
For piano, relaxation/lessening tension was key for my development of technique. And it seems to be important for organ from what they recommend (they say "whenever possible without creating tension"), but what they recommend seems to generate a lot of tension in my thighs when I tried it, so I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or not.
I'll post some pictures of my current playing posture; please let me know if you have any advice or improvements.
I know the books make it look sketchy lol, but it was hard getting it to a good height.
Feet at lightly sitting on the pedals; this is normal back-straight piano posture for me.
The book suggests a couple of things, which I found hard to implement:
First, that I should (at least in the beginning) keep my knees and heels together: knees together to promote playing notes with the inside of the foot/big toe instead of small toe, and heels together to form a 'scissors' movement to play thirds, fourths, and fifths. I tried this, and I'm assuming the foot was curved around 30 to 45 degrees; that worked all well and fine, I suppose, though when my knees/heels are together, my thighs ache pretty bad. Possibly because my thighs are not very small.
It also recommends to keep my heels on the pedals, even when I'm pressing down with my toes, but since my feet are curving inwards, my heels almost always rise off the pedals.
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... keep reading on reddit ➡So I've been playing piano since the last 5 years I think, a lot of breaks but I finally really committed it only this last summer and I've been doing pretty good (for a beginner) playing classical pieces like fur elise and rondo alla turca. and right now (just today) I started learning chopin's Nocture in E flat major
and I just want to ask if we need a sustain pedal as a player like myself as I struggle to beautify the piece without it. Thoughts?
Beginner's question, so please share your thoughts and experience.
Actually, it comes from the father of a beginner, with a limited classical guitar and music theory background. My 8 year old has been learning piano via private lessons since the age of 5, albeit intermittently (because ... Covid). He has been doing lessons on an upright acoustic piano once a week and practicing so far on a borrowed Yamaha PSR-A300 (a synthesizer with no "weight" on the keys) that's no longer at our disposal. His tutor has suggested that we look for a second hand acoustic, but for the price range it's out of the question.
So, I've been doing some research on digital pianos instead, and I'm currently torn between the KORG B2 and the Roland FP-10, leaning slightly towards the latter for the praised key action and a couple of secondary features, though it's a bit more expensive, and the 500€ of the Roland is my absolute ceiling for this kind of thing.
What I'd like to know is how important, for a child of 8 (still very much a beginner), is the fact that the Roland FP-10 supports only a sustain pedal and not a full three-pedal set like the KORG B2. Is this something that should be absolutely prioritized, or is it of minimal consequence and the need for it in practical lessons arises much much later if at all?
Fuck you.
Hi could anyone recommend a good digital piano sustain pedal? I currently use an M Audio SP2 universal sustain pedal with a Casio PX 560M digtial piano/keyboard. But I think the pedal is beginning to quit on me, the sound is cutting out. It cost about £13 and was OK but I don't mind spending a bit more to replace it as this is my main piano at the moment.
Cheers :)
I can recommend a guy to move it. If you can't afford to pay to have it moved, we can work something out, maybe split it or something.
That left pedal that pushes all the hammers closer to the strings?
I just bought Roland DP-10 pedal for my Casio cdp-130 piano and the pedal works backwards so I guess the wasn't working together. How can you check that before buying a substain pedal?
If you listen to the opening in this song, the piano part sounds just like the doom main theme song. Do you think whoever made the first doom soundtrack took inspiration from this? The album was released in 1959, so well before doom was a thing.
