For Teachers
Everything on this site a band director, private teacher or classroom music teacher can use on Monday morning: wall charts, blank worksheets for quizzes, a projector-friendly fingering finder, a first-five-notes path for beginners, and charts you can trust because every fingering was checked against two published sources.
Printables for the wall and the folder
The printable fingering charts index has all thirteen printables — one per instrument family. Each comes in two PDFs: the filled chart (laminate it for the wall or the section stand) and a blank worksheet of the same chart, diagrams empty, for quizzes, homework and exit tickets. The routine most teachers settle into: one row of the blank worksheet a week, filled in from memory, marked against the wall chart in seconds. The guide How to Print and Use Fingering Charts in Class covers sizes, greyscale printing and worksheet routines in detail.
The Finder on the projector
The Fingering Finder sits at the top of every chart and note page: pick the instrument, pick the note, and the class gets the diagram, the fingering in words and the pitch, at projector size. It settles the two questions that eat rehearsal minutes — "what's the fingering for…?" and "what does that sound like on my instrument?" (the concert pitch is printed on every result). It is also the fastest way to show a section why a written note is not the pitch they hear, which the guide Why Your Alto Sax Sounds in E♭ teaches in full.
A first-five-notes path for beginners
Each beginner instrument has a First 5 Notes guide — clarinet, flute, saxophone, trumpet, recorder — teaching the five notes in the order the hand learns them, with the trap note in each set named. They are written to be handed to a student (or a parent) as the week's reading, and every fingering in them comes from the same checked data as the charts. For recorder classes specifically, Recorder in the Classroom lays out the first six weeks, including the Baroque/German fingering mix most classes actually contain.
Why you can trust the charts
Every instrument's data was built from published sources — the Yamaha fingering guides and the Woodwind Fingering Guide first among them — under a two-source rule: a fingering ships only when two independent sources agree, or the disagreement is adjudicated and explained on the page. No fingering on this site was written from memory. And when something is wrong anyway, the correction route fixes it once, at the data level — chart, note pages, Finder and PDFs all correct themselves from the single fix. Teachers' reports are the highest-priority email this site receives.
Can I link to these charts from my school or class site?
Yes — please do. Linking is encouraged and needs no permission or credit line. Link to a chart page, a note page or the printables index, whichever serves your students; the addresses are stable.
Can I print charts for my whole class?
Yes. The printable charts and blank worksheets are free for classroom use — print a class set, pin the filled chart on the wall, hand out the worksheets. The only restriction is commercial: no reselling or repackaging the PDFs.
How accurate are the fingerings?
Every chart is checked against two published sources before it ships (the source list is on each chart page), and errors are corrected at the data level so the chart, note pages, Finder and PDFs all fix together. If you spot one anyway, the report route on the Contact page gets it checked against the sources.
What if my students play instruments the site does not cover?
Tell us — requests from teachers decide what gets built next. The site covers twenty instruments today; a new one ships when two published sources can be checked against each other, which is the accuracy rule for everything here.