Recovering from pedal mistakes during performance
Oof. Just got done with a quietude service where I completely massacred the pedals. I ended the service with the well-tempered C prelude, which I play as a warm up for every practice, so I felt very confident. But somewhere around the second half where it gets diminished, I hit something wrong, maybe slipped on a Gb, and it went completely awry. (Ultimately recovered by crawling myself back to C major and just doing some pathetic flourishes but I was completely embarrassed.)
I realized that lack this particular skill of recovering from pedal slips. How can I improve on it? How do you practice for this? Is it helpful to drill recovery from pedal 'mistakes'? Or should you really just aim for absolute perfection in pedals? How do you learn to assess quickly how to repair the pedals in the middle of a piece, especially when things get chromatic mid-phrase and you might not have a mental pedal diagram checkpoint nearby?
Nerves are not a factor, I don't have performance anxiety and am well comfortable with musical performance on other instruments, it's just this specific issue with live harp.