

Here's an unusual, maybe maverick approach. Since Villa Lobos' Etude 2 is such a mysterious piece with regard to left and right hand fingerings, I thought I'd start a thread where people could share their suggestions for both left and right fingerings for the piece. It also utilizes a very logical finger 2, string 2 GUIDE finger transfer for the high part of the arpeggio. So in conclusion the above right hand pattern is great for practicing PIMAMI patterns. 1 for the descending arpeggio portion with finger 2 on string 2 again as a GUIDE finger and then the right hand fingering -> a (string 2), m (string 3), i (string 4) and finally P (string 5).

I chose this particualr fingering because it adheres to (im) for the ascending string cross before and after the slur with (a) on string 1.Īfter m plays the open e we again transfer to pos. IX with finger 2 as a GUIDE finger on string 2 and from there the right hand fingering is -> i (string 2), m (string 1), (a) slur (string 1), i (string 2), m (string 1). P and slur (string 5), P (string 4), i (string 3), m (string 2), a (string 2).Īfter (a) plays open e we transfer to pos. It all depends on what you want to practice I suppose. I've heard of people using all (im) alternations for the ascent and descent of the arpeggio also. This is a very natural PIMA MI right hand pattern. The same fingering is used in bar 6 when the arpeggio takes a minor form as a A minor arpeggio. For the A Major arpeggio that starts the piece in bar 1, bar 5 and bar 13. IX I used a PIM combo, but I like (and am now used to) this better because it keeps (P) in the bass and utilizes the fingers for all the higher strings.ġ. I used to play a variation where after the transfer to pos. Although this is most likely a common fingering. Here's mine for the A Major (a minor) arpeggios. Instead of T I M A O you could change them to T I M R P or even G H C G Z for Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Gummo, & Zeppo.Hi. There you can change the fingers to anything you want. Just go to File|Options and choose the Preferences tab. So maybe because the 'A' was already used for the ring finger he went with the 'O' for the pinky. My guess is that the word would be pronounced as if it began with an 'O', i.e. Unfortunately, the word for the little finger - Auriculaire - also begins with an 'A'. Tabledit was written in France and the word for the ring finger in French is "Annulaire", so that may be what the 'A' stands for. Tabledit already has a symbol for a "brush" on the staff rather than for fingering. That would be too easy, and their boss might think they got paid too much for something a 7th grader could have written.
TABLEDIT RIGHT HAND FINGERING SOFTWARE
Software developers always seem to find some reason why a user has to "read the book" rather than be totally intuitive. I would have thought T I M R P would have been the logical alternative.

I thought I finally had it figured out that A meant "anchored" (or "available" in the case of Noem Pilkeny who does some 4-finger rolls I read), and O meant "out-of-service", being as the pinkie is generally the anchor and if you used it for anything else your hand would drift out of position.
