From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfingeringfin‧ger‧ing /ˈfɪŋɡərɪŋ/ noun [uncountable] APMthe positions in which a musician puts his or her fingers to play a piece of music, or the order in which he or she uses the fingers
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fingering• Fig 3 illustrates a typical three octave fingering of this scale, which should be played using alternate picking throughout.• Incidentally this also happens to be the most difficult part of the instrument's compass from the point of view of fingering. 