FINGERING

Fingering

In music, fingering is the choice of which fingers and hand positions to use when playing certain musical instruments. Fingering typically changes throughout a piece; the challenge of choosing good fingering for a piece is to make the hand movements as comfortable as possible without changing hand position too often. A fingering can be the result of the working process of the composer, who puts it into the manuscript, an editor, who adds it into the printed score, or the performer, who puts his or her own fingering in the score or in performance. A substitute fingering is an alternative to the indicated fingering, not to be confused with finger ...

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fingering

Noun

  1. The act of using one's fingers in the playing of a musical instrument.
  2. A specific method of using the fingers to play an instrument.
    That chord has two fingerings.
  3. The act of using the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus.

Verb

fingering

I caught my sister fingering herself.


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