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I quickly forgot all about pedaling and just listened to you play. Respect!

Thank you so much for the tutorials Sir. I started playing keyboard in our church recently. I'm still a beginner in stage performances, but I learn a lot from your videos, even if this one is 5 years ago. More power and God bless!! 🙂

Uhmm - correction if I may. On an acoustic piano. The reason the sound stops when you play a key is not that the hammers are resting on the string. The hammer will ALWAYS immediately pull back away from the string after striking. What happens is that once a hammer strikes and pulls back, a damper immediately falls on the string. The damper stops the vibration and the sound. The sustain pedal keeps the damper from doing its job. When pressed, the sustain pedal keeps all the dampers up , thereby allowing the strings to continue to vibrate. When you lift the pedal, the dampers again fall back to their resting place, which is on the strings - stopping the sound.

Glad to see this video! nobody else seems to talk much about the sustain pedal in lesson/tutorial type videos for some reason. It's like, they are obviously using it but never seem to mention when they are using it and why they are using it at these particular times.

Always blessing me my teacher

Very good explaination I am french Good job

Thank you so much for your helps! From Rwanda

Thank you very much

Thank you 🙌🏽👌

Warren is a Good Teacher Simply the Best His Teachings are Easier to Understand....I'm Gonna Practice this and Testify one Day 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏Thank You Warren God Bless you 🙏🙏🙏🙏

I'm so blessed watching this technique. I'm struggling playing with the sustain pedal

Thanx bro nice lesson i love it

i did not know this but now i know... Thanks.

Thanks Warren. This lesson was God sent. Been having some flops with using the pedal in terms of timing. Thanks again. Will apply lesson learnt in service today.

You had the best explanation for this.. grateful

thank you!

Very useful lesson thanks Warren as always great teacher....

good explanation

I love this tutorial God bless you Warren.

Excellent video, dude, it is hard to introduce the sustain pedal as you said, but is just practice as everything we want to learn. Thank you 👍🏽

Thank you

Magic. Great explanation.

Thank you for the tips, explanations, and practice pointers. I look forward to putting them into practice!!

Very useful

Wow ur videos are very good may God bless you for that am very happy and is helping me

Hi Warren. This was a unique lesson, on the Sustain Pedal. Welcome back. Glad you did not have any serious accident while skiing. I sure enjoy your lessons, and I have other KZfaq teachers as well. I started with Julian Bradley’s course (Play Piano by Ear) and he has been taking time with his new Daughter. Then there is the great piano player, Kent Hewett, whose Jazz is so good. Finally there is Jeff Schneider, who does lots of both recorded and live stream. Each of you teaches unique and wonderful lessons. I can tell you about the Drum Pedals. there are two typical types: the solid one and the ones that have a hinge. The hinge gives the stability you need. Sometimes people lift their heal up to cause a rapid shaking for special speed. I did not know about the heavier and larger sustain pedal and I will get one of those, because mine does tend to creep (I have a smooth tile floor under it). Thanks for that suggestion. FInally, I want to know what the Piano sound you chose. It is a very bright sounding piano. My Yamaha has so many piano sounds and I think I like yours best. By the way, what kind of digital piano are you using?

thanks for the lesson.

Thanks Warren for another useful tutorial: sustain pedal. Been wanting to play in church but because of my scrappy use of this important tool, I have refrained thus far. Session very helpful indeed.

Thank you sir warren

Thanks Warren!

Missed you Warren! Good to see that you’re back! I love your videos/ tutorials so much 👌🏾💕 Much love from a fellow musician in Long Island, NY 🎶😊

Very informative and useful.....Namaste from India

My sustain pedal slides all over the place. I just ordered this one from Amazon $20, thanks Warren!

Sir it's sort of hard to focus on your feet with your cool playing 😭😭😭 you're the best literally. Thanks alot for the tutorial sir 🤲🤲

Thanks Warren for this unique lesson and your heart to teach. Blessings.

I made a DIY sustain pedal today...praise God! Saved a lot of money

Thanks! I needed that! Truly helpful in understanding all aspects of this pedal whose proper use continues to elude me. 😬

Great pedal inst. Thank you ❤️

Great explanation. Thanks!

I've been playing wrong the whole time... Thank you for this lesson Warren :)

wonderful Mr. Warren

For anyone who's still confused: think of it like a seesaw. When the fingers (left side of seesaw) lifts off, pedal (right side of seesaw) goes down, and vice versa. It's a switching action, at least in this context. Also, Warren, don't tell me the chords at 7:39 was all improvised, it was great

Very interesting tutorial Thank you so much.

Thank you so much. I needed this lesson. Your videos are great. I had to subscribe.

Thank you for this vid ,I needed it

Interesting pronunciation of the word sustain."

thank you so so!!

I have that same pedal and its heavy and very stable.

Thanks for the lesson. Pls, for us who want to play organ someday alongside the piano, can you teach and record your feet playing the organ pedals (if that’s what they’re called), just like you did in this vid?

Welcome back Warren, let's us know how ski trip went!

Can you please do a tutorial on intermediate to advanced worship/spiritual warfare chords? ☺️🙏🏾

Good morning Mr Warren, is a bright morning here in Nigeria. I am happy considering the fact I am growing through you piano wise may you remain bless. I want to ask for a favour, my church had this yamaha motif xf8. I am having challenge mixing my voices or do I say adding layers to the default sound or something. I mean making my sound unique and also using it as a synth sometimes that is a nightmare. I was wondering if you could do a tutorial on it to help me improve in that area too. Thanks in advance to this lesson. Another challenge is this, you did a great work with me understanding how to form my mionor keys and so on can you also do a lesson of such nature how to understand the blue scale just like the minor scales breaking down all that has to do with minors and it was quite understandable. thanks again.

I Want playing piano like you play..... HOW TO DO THAT?

The pedal works best if you use a carpet of some sort, that way it doesn't slip. That particular model is very good I have one of those too.

This is great. At first I do not know how to use sustain pedal properly.

Hi Warren.. Please, I politely ask that you do a lesson on close by Marvin Sapp.. Thank you.

Great

thank you Sir, can you show us the song called We must praise by J.moss

Hey Warren, would you please do a lesson of various ways you go to the IV and V chord? Thanks in advance

I love watching your videos, I even started to buy and I'm really happy with it , Thank you bro you're a blessing I improved a lot since

Thank you Warren for this lesson. Been waiting forever for info on this. Quick question if you can please: do you have any opinion or advice about looking at the piano keys or looking away while playing? Thanks again.

Thank you Warren. I needed this lesson. I enjoy you lessons.

Excelent tutorial, Warren. Very well explained. One question if i may that more people might have: I have seen many sustain pedal videos and most of them say that in the first chord the pedal needs to be pressing down at the same time you press the keys. In your tutorial you show that even in the first chord, you first press the keys and then press the sustain pedal down. Is this up to the type of piece you are playing or is there any other reason? That becomes confusing when some people say one thing and others say other thing if you know what i mean. Thanks again for the awesome tutorial.

Can you use the sustain pedal when playing a organ?

hello Warren , thanks for your nice video. when should we start the sustain pedal. after the beginner practice template or we can include in?

Can u explain that run you did at the 8:38 mark?

Nice shoes....dnt mind having them😁

Sir u were playing in k c but i was confused i use to play in c

What say....can we press continuously the pedal...or release on n off randomly...im a bit confused...

You are playing amazing!! what song you've played?

nice melodies, now the question is there a specific sustain pedal or rather advise or recommend on a type of a sustain pedal one can acquire to get such output..by the way am using yamaha PSR-S670 keyboard

Was only listening to the Jamaican accent 🤩.

Random question but do you need to wear shoes when you’re using a sustain pedal. Because when I wear flip-flops I cant use a sustain pedal.

How to use the pedal using arpeggios?

Pls I wanna learn a pino

ive seen some videos with playing sustain pedal with the left foot, what do you think of that

Having problem with sustain pedal white using pipe organ tone in a Korg kross... which I am trying to figure out

But how do we pedal when using grace notes?

Found my answer here on why one needs to release the pedal between chords instead of keeping it pressed down all the way, thanks. One question: when playing with two hands, is there a rule which hand the pedal should coordinates with? e.g. when left hand plays chords and right hand plays melody, which one should the pedal follow? and what if both hands play chords?

Iam use the pedal if you press it it completely break the sound basically the opposite is that better for me Orr do I have to learn the other way??

Muito bom

On faster songs like We’re Blessed by Fred Hammond do you still use the sustain pedal?

Is that the M-Audio SP-2? Do you recommend it over Yamaha's FC4A?

Can you talk about: when and how to cross your left hand over your right, like when you are doing a fast run or arpeggios moving toward the treble, to embellish, or in an ending? Also, when you play to demonstrate things, are you always playing some song with a pre-set harmonic progression? It sounds to me like you may be improvising the chord progression, and not only the right hand melody. You go all over with the chords. It’s not just all I IV V or II V Is, and I think you may be switching keys liberally also, and it seems that you repeat chord sequences less than a lot of music. But maybe you are just playing songs that I don’t know. If you are improvising the harmonic progression (not just the voicing, but the actual chord sequence), can you talk about how you learned that, how we might practice to develop that ability, or if maybe it’s just a talent that some people have and others don’t. I can improvise melodies to go over a fixed set of chords that I know well. But I can’t “pre-hear” what it would sound like if I just decided to switch keys, or to go from major to minor, or to switch the chord progression around completely.

Hello Sir, please what is the brand of your sustain pedal ?

How can i be like u

7:39

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Turn off the background music!!!!

Warren sorry to say but many of your lessons on passing chord u don't break it down very well