Browse Technical Categories

Patterns

Wide accompaniment patterns

Awkward passagework

Piano fingerings for Kling by Richard Strauss

Divide and Conquer

Alternating hands

Break up running passages

Divide more evenly between the hands

Facilitate ornament

Separate polyrhythm

Piano fingerings for Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest from Preludes, Book 1, by Claude Debussy

Preserve Lines

Facilitate emphasis

Facilitate polyphony

Improve voicing

Share middle voice between hands

Silent hand transfer

Sustain bass note

Piano fingerings for Prelude in G-flat major, Op. 11, No. 13, by Alexander Scriabin

Reorganize

Facilitate page turn

Maintain technical pattern

Visual choreography

Piano fingerings for Piano Concerto in G Major by Maurice Ravel

Fingerings

Fingering only (no redistributions)

Thumb on two keys

Use stronger fingers

Piano fingerings for 8 Improvisations on Hungarian Folk Songs, Op. 20, by Béla Bartók

Geographic Challenges

Facilitate leap

Split large chord

Stagger position shifts

Piano fingerings for Sonata in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2 (“Tempest”) by Ludwig van Beethoven

Reduce Motions

Avoid finger crossing

Avoid hand crossing

Reduce position shifts

Piano fingerings for Clarinet Sonata in F Minor, Op. 120. No. 2, by Johannes Brahms

Beginnings and Endings

Starting with two hands

Piano fingerings for Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54, by Robert Schumann

Octaves

Split 3-voice octaves

Piano fingerings for Concerto in E-flat Major, K. 271 (“Jeunehomme”) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Pedaling

Creative pedaling

Facilitate clearer pedaling

Sostenuto pedal

Piano fingerings for Nocturne, Op. 33, by Samuel Barber