I’m working on fingerings for some mandolin music, and I’m realizing that by default, mandolin seems to use the guitar fingering system - where there are left hand fingerings displayed to the left of the note, and right hand fingerings are represented by letters. Is there any way to use non-fretted fingerings for a mandolin, appearing above the note, like those used for violin?
Just to be clear, here is what I’m seeing:
And here is what I’d like to see:
Thanks!
If it was a guitar, one can …
Select the whole chord.
Shift-F for the fingering popover.
Type 1,2,3,4 (with the commas)
And then , in the Properties panel below, click on Stopping Finger Position.
Thanks Andy! That definitely gets me somewhere, I’m still just having two problems working that way:
is it seems like I would have to change that property every time I want to input a fingering, which is ok, just a bit of a nuisance. I tried various ways of select all and filtering to try to set the property all at once and didn’t have any luck, though maybe there is a way.
Chords made of multiple voices - in a violin track the fingerings display bottom to top even with multiple voices, like this:
but here’s what I’m getting on this mandolin part:
It could be that this is the standard way to read fingerings for classical guitar, I’m not sure, but for my purposes I’d really like to just get a clean stack of fingerings bottom to top without resorting to engrave mode - if possible!
I guess I may just resort to making the mandolin a renamed violin part! I was hoping maybe there was some way to customize the fingering system each instrument used.
Thanks again!
EDIT: Scratch that second point, I just tried changing the mandolin to a violin and the fingerings display the same way! I guess it’s because the notes are offset, unlike the violin screenshot from my last post. I just paged through my Bach solo violin book to see how they display fingerings, and it looks like I’m the odd one out with my fingering preferences, so I guess it makes sense this is a little tricky. I’d still appreciate if anyone has any tips on quickly selecting multiple fingerings at once, in order to change the display property.
For a ‘straight up’ chord they line up OK.
But otherwise I just reset them in engrave mode. I understand why Dorico offsets them to fit where the notes are but sometimes it’s easier to read a clean vertical alignment.
