fingerings
- plural of fingering.
Example Sentences
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He largely taught himself to play the oboe and English horn, using a book that showed the fingerings.
From New York Times • May 12, 2023
Featured in a band lead by Earl “Fatha” Hines, Parker dazzled his Harlem contemporaries with his lightning-fast fingerings and innovative chords, the building blocks of the jazz style that came to be known as “bebop.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2020
“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
Change fingerings and chord voicings, and again listen carefully to how that changes the sound to your ears.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
