fingering
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Musicfingeringfin‧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 fingersExamples from the Corpusfingering• 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.