LH- guitar fingering

• Apr 25, 2025 - 13:25

When trying to find my way through MuseScore-Studio-4.5 ( I am coming from MS-2.3 ), I experience a problem when getting the LH-fingering on the left side of the note head. Whatever I try via Format > Style > Text styles > LH guitar fingering and then fiddling the "Align", it keeps on the bottom of the note.
How can I modify this?


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In reply to by JoeAlders

The first set of numbers in the Fingerings palette is reserved for piano and other instruments, with fingerings positioned above the notes. But if you choose the second set of numbers in the palette, specifically designed for guitar, the fingerings are placed to the left of the notehead as expected - image below.

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As for the position of the right-hand fingerings, you can change their location easily above or below. Finally, I'd say that things get more/very complex because of the number of voices in this piece. And also with your own fingering preferences, which are not necessarily those of anyone else.

In reply to by cadiz1

Thanks cadiz1!
Because I did not know that the second set was for guitar, I removed that second set.
That is why nothing happened when I modified that fingering in the "Style".
I am certainly not intending to publish the score so I do not have to consider if those fingerings
suite anybody else except for me.

In reply to by JoeAlders

Yes, these are two specific sets of numbers. When you hover your mouse over these fingerings, tooltips show that the first set of numbers is "Fingering", the second set is "LH guitar fingering", and the third set (letters) is "RH guitar fingering". To retrieve this second set of numbers, click on the three "..." ellipses in front of the palette name, and on "Reset palette".

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