Sustain pedal retakes and pedal level changes

Pedal retakes indicate where a player should lift the sustain pedal, which dampens the piano’s strings and clears the resonance, before depressing the pedal again. Pedal level changes indicate a change to how far the pedal is depressed.

Dorico Elements provides clear representations of pedal retakes and level changes.

Note

  • In Dorico Elements, you cannot input pedal level changes. However, pedal level changes are shown if you import or open a project that contains them, and you can remove them in the same way as removing retakes.

  • You can only add pedal retakes to sustain pedal lines.

Example

Figure 1. Example pedal line with retake and level changes

  1. Ped. glyph

  2. Retake

  3. One quarter depressed

  4. Half depressed

  5. Three quarters depressed

  6. Fully depressed

  7. Line end hook