I'm teaching myself to play the Phantom of the Opera on piano, I have the sheet music and all that but I was wondering, do you use the pedal at all? It's not in the sheets but it sounds better to me, especially in the bits with all the chords.
Also, this is hard to explain but I was wondering whether you play the bit where they sing along with the bass.
E.g the treble cleff notes are F and A do you play the D on the bass with those notes or separately.
Again I think it sounds better together but I can't really tell what it says on the music...
I hope people can understand!
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I think I may understand what you're saying.
As a general pedaling technique, unless the composer calls for "Smorzando", or if the chords are closely related, you should break upon the coming of every new chord.
Smorzando means dying away. This is where you keep the pedal depressed as you play through multiple harmonic changes, ritard and decrescendo.
Also, if the successive chords are roughly the same, such as a root position Bb major triad and a first inversion major triad (with D as the lowest note), it is okay to keep the pedal depressed (in most contexts).
However, in most situations, I would not keep the pedal depressed when going from one chord to another. For example, going from the I chord to the V chord (like C to G).
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