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Table 1: Basic Signs
Table 2: Clefs
Table 3: Accidentals, Key
and Time signatures
Table 4: Rythmic Groups
Table 5: Chords
Table 6: Slurs and Ties
Table 7: Tremolos
Table 8: Fingering
Table 9: Bar lines and repeats
Table 10: Nuances
Table 11: Ornaments
Table 12: Theory
Table 13: Modern Notation
Table 14: General Organization
Table 15: Keyboard Music
Table 16: Vocal Music
Table 17: String Instruments
Table 18: Winds & Percussion
Table 19: Accordion
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Table 8- Fingering
A. Keyboard Instruments
| a |
1 First finger |
| |
1 |
4 Fourth finger |
| b |
2 second finger |
| |
k |
5 Fifth finger |
| l |
3 Third finger |
| |
| |
| c |
Between fingering, change of fingers on same note |
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| , |
Omission of first fingering when 2 sets are given |
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| ' |
Omission of second fingering when 2 sets are given |
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B. String Instruments
1. Left Hand
| *k |
Thumb |
l |
3 Third finger |
| a |
1 First finger |
1 |
4 Fourth finger |
| b |
2 Second finger |
k |
0 Open String |
| c |
Between fingering, change of fingers on same note |
2. Right Hand
| p |
| |
Thumb pulgar |
| i |
| |
Index finger indice |
| m |
| |
Middle finger mayor |
| a |
| |
Ring finger anular |
| c |
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Other single letters; braille as printed |
| x |
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Little finger chiquito if ch is printed |
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