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over-pedal verb[ I or T ] music specialized(alsooverpedal)uk /ˌəʊ.vəˈped.əl/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈped.əl/-ll- or US usually-l- to use too much pedal(= the part of a piano that you press with your foot to make the sound continue) when playing the piano: Pianists who over-pedal will be suitably punished for bringing the music into disrepute. As a whole, the performance sounded a bit mushy and overpedalled. Op. 17 No. 2 is surely over-pedalled, and an unspecified change of tempo in the central episode of No. 3 jars on repetition. With no sense of major beats, his runs were rushed, shapeless and over-pedalled. He has criticized the under-articulated, over-fast, over-pedalled, overindulgent performance practices current in classical music. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Musical instruments accordion acoustically aerophone alphorn alto drum kit drum machine drumbeat drumhead drumroll ocarina oud panpipes paradiddle pedal steel tuned tuning fork tuning peg ukulele unpitched |