fingering
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Other remaining brand-name correspondents, including the ageless Lesley Stahl, for a while were feared to be fingering their rip cords too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
"I tend now to play parts of chords, rather than fingering the whole damn thing. I use these shortcuts that would be a nightmare for a guitar teacher."
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2023
For more than a decade, scientists have debated which animals alive today hail from that earliest sister, fingering two phyla as the most likely candidates: sponges and comb jellies.
From Science Magazine ● May 17, 2023
She had a leopard scarf elegantly wrapped around her head and was fingering a glittering ring and staring blankly into the distance.
From Reuters ● Feb. 7, 2023
I silently practice my Wohlfahrt etudes, without the bow, just the fingering, simply to calm my pounding heart.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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He largely taught himself to play the oboe and English horn, using a book that showed the fingerings.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2023
“I changed his position, his bowings, his fingerings, and I was just in absolute shock that he was able to take everything in so quickly. I knew I was working with somebody special.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2021
“My scores of Schumann, Chopin, Ravel, and Messiaen are still covered in the meticulous fingerings and often pointed criticisms that she would notate, bar after bar,” he wrote shortly after Loriod’s death, in 2010.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 10, 2018
Students learn and practice on a chanter, an oboe-like instrument with the same fingerings as the bagpipe’s melody pipe.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 31, 2017
Change fingerings and chord voicings, and again listen carefully to how that changes the sound to your ears.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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