Tip #11 - Putting Fingering Numbers on Both Sides of Chord

You may already have discovered that when you want to indicate which fingers to use when playing a treble chord you simply have to type the fingering number when the caret is immediately to the left of the note to be fingered and the fingering will appear to the left of the note. (Sometimes the fingering is clearer to read if you put it a bit above or below the note)

But sometimes the notes are crowded together so densely that the fingering would be very cluttered if it was all on the left side. Or if there is an accidental (sharp, flat, or natural) next to the note the fingering will get lost in the accidental. In these cases it's better to put the fingering on the right side of the note.

There's a slightly indirect way to use MusEdit to put fingerings on the right side of the note: Put the fingering on an "empty" (no notes) chord immediately following the chord to be fingered. The attached image shows how this works.

In practise you enter the real chord, then with the caret to the left of the chord notes enter the fingering which will appear on the left side of the chord, then hit the right arrow so the caret is immediately to the right of the real chord and enter the fingering which belongs on the right of the chord. This fingering is associated with an "invisible" chord immediately to the right of the real, so keep that in mind if you ever want to insert spaces or change or delete the fingering since it can seem a little weird until you get used to what's going on.

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