Scales - fingers
When learning to play scales on the guitar, it's relatively important to use the correct fingers, as opposed to playing every note with the index finger, for example. For most of the scales on this site, the fingering is based on suggestions as given by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM), which correspond to the follwing images.
Left Hand
Right Hand
The "p i m a" seems a bit weird at first, but basically it just means :
- p = thumb (Spanish 'pulgar')
- i = index finger (Spanish 'indice')
- m = middle finger (Spanish 'Medio')
- a = ring finger (Spanish 'anular')
On the rare occasions where the little finger of the right-hand is used, for example in Flamenco style guitar playing, it's given the annotation X or E.
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