Piano fingering bracket used for two adjacent piano keys played with thumb
I remember a few times when I wanted to use an angular bracket, used to annotate that two adjacent piano keys are played with the thumb, but I gave up. Also, I wasn't able to Google anything clever.
You know, an angular bracket next to two adjacent musical notes and next to it there is the number 1 showing fingering. For instance, for playing the 3rd inversion of 7th chord, like C4 D4 F#4 A4 C5 where C4 and D4 are played with the thumb.
I wander what is the best way to do this in MuseScore?
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Use the bracket shape arpeggio (from the corresponding palette) and disable playback (in Inspector)
In reply to Use the bracket shape… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks. I'll try this when I'll be next to computer
In reply to Use the bracket shape… by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes, it works.
In reply to Yes, it works. by hstanekovic
Hi, Jojo-Smitz! Thank you for always helping!
In my score that arpeggio bracket is not efficient. I would want it to look like that (see the image):
I have found a pedaling bracket that might work but I was not able to use it properly together with the fingering mark. I think one of these brackets should be added to brackets in palette (we should have up-down-right-left brackets available, they are versatile). Or add them to fingering palette, please. All 4 brackets as well.
Thank you very much!
In reply to Use the bracket shape… by Jojo-Schmitz
What if I want to put it to the right of the chord?
In reply to What if I want to put it on… by sergeresko
As far as I know, it is usual to put fingering either on the top of notes or on the left side of them.
For instance, see this page from Chopin's Nocturne in C minor.
In reply to As far as I know, it is… by hstanekovic
Thank you for the example.
I’ve just found a symbol in the Master Palette called
(inhales)
Multiple notes played by thumb or single finger "<sym>fingeringMultipleNotes</sym>".
(out of breath)
It has only one shape, which is designed for left-side fingering, and to me it looks very small. I don’t want to put fingering on the left because of the accidentals.
In reply to Thank you for the example. I… by sergeresko
I did not know for this symbol. Thanks.
In reply to Thank you for the example. I… by sergeresko
:)
What is available in the SMuFL fonts probably limits what MuseScore can offer for fingering.
See the SMuFL font illustrations:
Fingering (U+ED10–U+ED2F) : https://w3c.github.io/smufl/latest/tables/fingering.html
Fingering supplement (U+ED80–U+ED9F) : https://w3c.github.io/smufl/latest/tables/fingering-supplement.html
Using three separate symbols selected one after another from Master Palette > Symbols > Search: Fingering gives this result - after some adjustment of offsets:
![Fingering_spans_two_notes.png]( "Fingering_spans_two_notes.png")
Symbols, left to right:
Fingering left bracket + Fingering 1 (thumb) + Fingering right bracket