fingerings
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pluralof fingering.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
fingeringnounthe act of a person who fingers.
Example Sentences
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“I changed his position, his bowings, his fingerings, and I was just in absolute shock that he was able to take everything in so quickly. I knew I was working with somebody special.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 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
Chords with fingerings that you don't know but with a sound that you would recognize work best for this exercise.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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