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Fingering
Fingerings can be added to music to recommend which ngers players should use for notes. This
can be useful for music aimed at players learning the instrument and for dicult musical
passages where certain ngering patterns make the notes much easier to play.
Fingerings are often used in keyboard music, as players can use all ten ngers to play notes, and
in guitar music, where ngerings are often used alongside fret positions. However, ngerings
can also be useful for other instruments, for example, to indicate that string players should
change the nger used to stop the string while holding the note, or to instruct wind players to
use uncommon
ngerings for particular notes in order to create a special sonic effect.
Piano music containing multiple ngerings, including a substitution ngering and alternative ngerings
Dorico SE also provides ngerings for brass instruments. For example, you can specify which
valves players should depress for instruments such as trumpet and horn, and you can specify the
horn branch you want players to use for double horns.
Fingerings in Dorico SE use a bold roman font by default, following accepted conventions for the
appearance of
ngerings.
RELATED LINKS
Inputting ngerings on page 204
Fingerings popover on page 205
Hiding/Showing ngering on page 582
String indicators on page 591
General placement conventions for ngering
Fingerings are placed as close as possible to the notes to which they apply, so the performer can
read them easily and clearly.
In music for grand staff instruments, such as the piano and harp, it is accepted to place
ngerings for the right hand above the top staff, and ngerings for the left hand below the
bottom staff. However, in dense contrapuntal music for these instruments, ngerings can be
placed between the staves to follow the direction of the voices to which they apply.
Different conventions apply to ngerings for fretted instruments, as they require ngerings for
both the right and left hands.
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