Fingering and Plucking

completed in 5.3

These are technical informations for guitar or similar instrument, to indicate how a note should be played.

[Assuming a right-handed person]:

  • Fingering describes the left-hand finger, via a digit number (0, 1, 2, 3, 4)
  • Plucking describes the right-hand finger, via a letter (p, i, m, a)

Table of contents

  1. Example
  2. Detection
  3. Insertion
  4. Export

Example

Here is an example with fingering indications (in red squares) and plucking indications (in green circles):

Detection

The OMR engine must be explicitly told to detect these indications. This can be done via the processing switches in the Book → Set book parameters pull-down menu:

Insertion

Regardless of the switches values, we can always manually assign or drag & drop these indications from the shape board:

Shape Set Palette
Fingerings
Pluckings

Export

These indications get exported to MusicXML and are thus visible from MuseScore for example: