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TABLES
  • Table 1: Basic Signs
  • Table 2: Clefs
  • Table 3: Accidentals, Key
    and Time signatures

  • Table 4: Rythmic Groups
  • Table 5: Chords
  • Table 6: Slurs and Ties
  • Table 7: Tremolos
  • Table 8: Fingering
  • Table 9: Bar lines and repeats
  • Table 10: Nuances
  • Table 11: Ornaments
  • Table 12: Theory
  • Table 13: Modern Notation
  • Table 14: General Organization
  • Table 15: Keyboard Music
  • Table 16: Vocal Music
  • Table 17: String Instruments
  • Table 18: Winds & Percussion
  • Table 19: Accordion

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  • Contractions List
  • Intro Braille course
  • Transcribers course

  • Table 8- Fingering

    A. Keyboard Instruments

    1 First finger 4 Fourth finger
    2 second finger 5 Fifth finger
    3 Third finger
    Between fingering, change of fingers on same note
    Omission of first fingering when 2 sets are given
    Omission of second fingering when 2 sets are given

    B. String Instruments

    1. Left Hand

    Thumb 3 Third finger
    1 First finger 4 Fourth finger
    2 Second finger 0 Open String
    Between fingering, change of fingers on same note

    2. Right Hand

    Thumb pulgar
    Index finger indice
    Middle finger mayor
    Ring finger anular
    Other single letters; braille as printed
    Little finger chiquito if ch is printed


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