Changing the staff-relative placement of fingerings

Dorico Pro automatically follows conventions for fingering placement, but you can show individual fingerings belonging to non-fretted instruments either above or below the staff, independently of your project-wide setting.

According to convention, 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.

Note

These steps only apply to non-fretted instruments.

Procedure

  1. Select the fingerings whose staff-relative placement 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 also change the staff-relative placement of fingerings by selecting them in Engrave mode and pressing F.

  • You can change the staff-relative placement of all fingerings 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.