I am probably overly fussy on this. I need to alter the pedal marks on a piece in my paper book, but I don't want to make the markings permanent. Pencils are good for adding annotations. But how to cross out things cleanly? In the example blow, the spiral pencil marks are where the original pedal need to be scratched out. The mess I made is still quite hard to read. I thought about using white-out pen, but are those erasable?
What other tips do you guys have on annotating sheet music?
iternabe You can just use whiteout. The whiteout doesn't have to be erasable. If you need to make changes to your changes then you can use white out again.
For this specific example, I would just ignore the pedalling and play it by ear, but I suppose you are asking more generally.
I never use anything else than pencil marks because my scores are too valuable to me. I normally cross out things I don't want and add my own annotations, which might be understandable only to me. It does get messy and sometimes I only write in a symbol or abbreviation to remember to play it my way but without crossing out any existing markings.
BTW, what's wrong with the indicated pedalling?
I've never heard of eraseable whiteout, but it certainly would be useful!
Here's my idea:
Put little pieces of white paper over the pedal markings. Use your phone to "scan" into a pdf (onedrive can do this). Adjust the contrast if necessary, and print.
BartK BTW, what's wrong with the indicated pedalling?
It muddies up the melody. Assuming the purpose of pedaling is to connect the chord changes, pedal only needs to be down before the chord change and that sounds much cleaner.
I suppose Faber is making the pedaling simpler for beginners. In doing so, in book 1 and 2 there are plenty of instances like this. My YouTube teachers changes it every time and explains why he does it.
@twocats @rsl12 Since I recently downloaded ForScore, scanning is certainly an option. I am good at photoshop enough I won’t even need to cover anything during scanning. That said, pedaling is something I find needing changes often in lots of pieces in Faber book 1 and 2. Would be a lot of scanning, then.
Just had an idea. Maybe I can write in the “Ped *” style of pedaling mark and ignore the original? That might be easier to read than what I am doing now?
iternabe You could just write any new pedaling in any form below the original and play that.
Related story: I recently found a set of 6 volumes of Bartok’s Mikrokosmos at a great price. The first book was full of ball pen marking: fingering, dynamics, counting, even dates of assignment on each piece. Luckily, book 2 and the rest are as clean as new 
Pencil markings.
Next sticky notes so you can remove them later.
Photocopy or scan the sheet into the computer and print a secondary copy. Leave the original unmarked and put all the markings on the copy.
Scan it.
Edit it in software.*
Print it.
*) You can use photoshop, gimp, or my favorite:
An office suite (e.g. Libre office draw), drag the scanned file onto an empty page. Best practice is to disable "moving" and "resizing" option of the picture-element of the scanned page. This saves you a lot of trouble when misclicking.
Then add rectangles with white filling and line style to hide something. Feel free to add text, and whatever you like.
iternabe The first book was full of ball pen marking: fingering, dynamics, counting, even dates of assignment on each piece.
In "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", Harry got an old, used and shaggy looking copy of the "Advanced Potion-Making" book. On the first page, someone wrote "Property of the Half Blood Prince". The book was full of hand-written scribbles on every page. But those scribbles helped Harry to be better in potion brewing than anyone else in his course - including Hermione.
This works much better. Although now I can see why the "Ped ❊" notation is more cumbersome than the bracket style.
Sort of off topic somewhat, but I saw this reference ages ago on the question of pristine versus marked up scores. This belongs to Yehudi Menuhin.
I also found this article where a guitarist is advising TO mark up one's score, but he also suggests making copies. I do often make one or more copies of what I'm working on. (I have a scanner because of my work so I'm spoiled.)
You could try using erasable colored pencil (Crayola sells them) to mark the wedges (which are what you want to keep). Use a bright or contrasting color to make the wedges stand out from the connecting lines (which you will be ignoring). After you're finished with the piece, erase the colored pencil marks. I use colored pencils all the time on my scores. They erase very well.
