User manual

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.
They 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.
Dorico Elements 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 Elements use a bold roman font by default, following accepted conventions
for the appearance of ngerings.
RELATED LINKS
Inputting ngerings on page 164
Fingerings popover on page 165
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.
Changing ngerings to substitution ngerings
Substitution ngerings indicate where players should change the nger used for the note. You
can change existing ngerings to substitution ngerings.
PROCEDURE
1. Select the ngerings you want to change to substitution ngerings.
2. In the Properties panel, activate Substitution in the Fingering and Positions group.
3. Enter the ngering you want for the substitution into the value eld.
4. Save your change in any of the following ways:
● Press Return.
●
Click outside of the value eld.
Fingering
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