Changing the placement of fingerings relative to the staff

Dorico automatically follows conventions for fingering placement, but you can change the placement of fingerings relative to the staff individually, independently of your project-wide setting.

According to conventions, keyboard instrument fingering is positioned above the right-hand staff, and below the left-hand staff. String and brass instrument fingering is always positioned above the staff.

Procedure

  1. Select the fingerings whose position relative to the staff you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate Staff-relative position in the Fingering and Positions group.
  3. Choose one of the following options:

    • Above

    • Below

Result

The selected fingerings appear above/below the staff.

Tip

You can change the placement of all fingerings relative to the staff project-wide to follow voice directions on the Fingering page in Engrave > Engraving Options.

This can be useful in complex contrapuntal music where fingering may not be clear if it is only placed above the top staff and below the bottom staff.