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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 Elements also provides ngerings for brass and fretted 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. For fretted instruments,

you can input

ngerings for both hands.

Fingerings in Dorico Elements use a bold roman font by default, following accepted conventions

for the appearance of ngerings.