fingering
noun
the act of a person who fingers.
fingerings
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pluralof fingering.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In junior high, he was given a battered cornet to play and, overnight, learned the fingerings of the instrument and the next day played “Pomp and Circumstance” for the band teacher.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2021
“My scores of Schumann, Chopin, Ravel, and Messiaen are still covered in the meticulous fingerings and often pointed criticisms that she would notate, bar after bar,” he wrote shortly after Loriod’s death, in 2010.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2018
Students learn and practice on a chanter, an oboe-like instrument with the same fingerings as the bagpipe’s melody pipe.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 31, 2017
His strings also had a curious habit of snapping in the middle of a performance, forcing Paganini to continue playing on ever fewer strings, with ever more virtuosic fingerings.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2013
If you have trouble keeping track of the notes, use a piano keyboard, a written chromatic scale, or the chromatic fingerings for your instrument to count half steps.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
