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goodtone

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fingering notation in Schumans of Foreign Lands and People

on: February 14, 2011, 03:25:18 PM

I'm just learning this piece and I notice that fingering in one of the measures is given as 3-4 . I'm assuming that this indicates alternate fingerning i.e. you can finger with 3 or 4 whichever suits ?
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stevebob

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Re: fingering notation in Schumans of Foreign Lands and People

Reply #1 on: February 14, 2011, 07:17:24 PM

It's almost certainly an indication for finger substitution. In this instance, the note would be played with 3, and you would switch from 3 to 4 while the note is held down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_substitution#On_keyboard_instruments

The most common way of notating a finger substitution is with a curved ligature mark above the two numerals (resembling a close parenthesis rotated 90 degrees to the left), but a hyphen is frequently used as well.

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goodtone

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Re: fingering notation in Schumans of Foreign Lands and People

Reply #2 on: February 15, 2011, 06:35:49 PM

Thanks Stevebob, I've never heard of this technique but it makes more sense than my alternate fingering assumption. I'm really a classical guitarist and am teaching myself the piano.I'll have to look at the piece again with this new found knowledge

Thanks, GT

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