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A passage for guitar with right-hand and left-hand ngerings

Right-hand ngering

Right-hand ngerings tell the performer which nger to use to pluck the string, which

is usually the right hand. By default, all right-hand ngerings are placed outside the

staff, on the notehead side of notes, and follow the stem directions of voices in

multiple-voice contexts. When the same

nger plays multiple notes in a chord, you

can show a single ngering with a bracket for the notes plucked by that nger.

Dorico Elements shows “p” for right-hand thumb ngerings and “e” for right-hand

ngerings for the pinky nger.

NOTE

In Dorico Elements, we use “pinky” to refer to the smallest nger, but it can also be

called “little” or “fth digit”.

Left-hand ngering

Left-hand ngerings tell the performer which nger to use to stop the string, which

is usually the left hand. In

Dorico Elements, left-hand ngerings are placed inside the

staff and to the left of the notes to which they apply.

When shown inside the staff next to notes, left-hand ngering appears smaller than

ngering shown outside the staff.