Right???? Well as a child I watched people playing (grand) pianos often, and always tried to figure out how they did that exactly. It seemed so random! I'd ask my mom (pianist, but obviously not a teacher type) how she did that, and her usual reply basically was "you just do it". So it took me all these years to finally learn it, and it was this post that suddenly made the light bulb explode inside my head:
WieWaldi when the hand goes down (in my case LH), the pedal goes up.
It was like the sun started to shine, rainbows in the sky, birds singing, springtime at last.... EUREKA! So simple!
But yeah, then of course getting the actual coordination of limbs to cooperate, that's an entirely different story. But that too is gradually happening to the point where sometimes, just sometimes, I am pedaling without actually thinking about it 😂
Edit: omg, I now realize I probably told that story of the pedal fascination 3 million times by now. Please forgive my senior moment in the endless repetitions of the same statement in endless variations 😁
P.S. Have I ever mentioned before that I have a pedal fascination? Well............ Ok I better run before the men in white coats are sent this way 🤣