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Guitar composers and arrangers use the traditional
Spanish terms when writing fingering directions in their music.
The following chart covers most of the terms you may encounter
in your study of the guitar.
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Because of its relative
size the little finger on the right hand is not normally
used. The right hand fingering are abbreviations of
the Spanish words pulgar, indicio, medio, anular.
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Fingers of the left
hand are numbered from the index finger. The thumb is
not used in classical technique but is used by some
steel string fingerstyle players.
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A number attached to
a note indicates the left hand finger to be used.
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A number enclosed within
a circle indicates the sting upon which the note is
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This sign represents
a full bar at the 7th fret (Note the use of Roman numerals).
The index finger of the left hand is placed across the
six strings and holds down each string.
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This is the
sign for the half
bar where the left hand
index finger holds down from two to five strings. Note
that the half bar does not necessarily mean three strings.
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