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Originally Posted by spherenine
For which instrument are you writing? If it's guitar or a similar plucked string instrument, you can just write "let ring" (ctrl+l, I believe) over the first three notes), but on a piano, you would have to instruct the performer to use the sostenuto pedal and hold down the first three notes. I can't currently think of a not-sloppy way to do this (perhaps it's really simple, but I'm no expert on piano notation, seeings as I don't play piano), but I'm sure that a wiser member on this forum can (or at least would have a better idea than mine).
(I used a lot of parenthesis in this response).
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It's for piano. I had considered notating to use the sostenuto pedal as that seems to be the only way to play it that way anyway but when I looked up how to do that I kept reading that sostenuto is very rarely notated. I assumed that must be because there are other easier ways to do it. The closest thing I've found is in
Debussy's Arabesque No 1 where he places a longer duration note touching shorter notes to notate that they're to be sustained. This seems like it would still be pretty sloppy to do with three notes in a row.