Printable Recorder Fingering Chart
A free printable recorder fingering chart for the soprano recorder, in Baroque (English) fingering — the system most schools teach and the one this site is built on. All 25 notes from C5 to C7 are charted with the thumb hole, the seven front holes and the two double holes drawn exactly as they are played, including the half-holed thumb that unlocks the second octave.
Download the PDFs
One panel on the sheet handles the classroom reality: the German-system F is different, and it is marked.
Both PDFs are free for classroom and personal use. Print them, copy them for your class, pin them on the wall — please just do not resell them or post them as your own product.
What is in the chart
The filled chart shows every note with its hole states — covered, open and half — including the double holes 6 and 7, where covering only the small lower hole gives C♯ and E♭. The German-system panel shows the German F (thumb plus holes 1–2–3–4, no fork) beside the Baroque forked F, and notes the F♯ and A♭ differences in words, so a teacher with mixed recorders in one class can still use one wall chart. The blank worksheet prints the same 25 diagrams empty — the standard recorder-class test.
The full chart, online
Prefer to check a note on screen, hear it, or look up one fingering at a time? The recorder fingering chart has all of it — and every note below links to its own page with the diagram, the sound and the fingering in words.
| Note | Fingering |
|---|---|
| C5 | Thumb covered · holes 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 covered. |
| C♯5 | Thumb covered · holes 1-2-3-4-5-6 covered · hole 7 half-covered (lower small hole only). |
| D5 | Thumb covered · holes 1-2-3-4-5-6 covered. |
| E♭5 | Thumb covered · holes 1-2-3-4-5 covered · hole 6 half-covered (lower small hole only). |
| E5 | Thumb covered · holes 1-2-3-4-5 covered. |
| F5 | Thumb covered · holes 1-2-3-4-6-7 covered. |
| F♯5 | Thumb covered · holes 1-2-3-5-6 covered. |
| G5 | Thumb covered · holes 1-2-3 covered. |
| A♭5 | Thumb covered · holes 1-2-4-5 covered · hole 6 half-covered (lower small hole only). |
| A5 | Thumb covered · holes 1-2 covered. |
| B♭5 | Thumb covered · holes 1-3-4 covered. |
| B5 | Thumb covered · holes 1 covered. |
| C6 | Thumb covered · holes 2 covered. |
| C♯6 | Holes 1-2 covered. |
| D6 | Holes 2 covered. |
| E♭6 | Holes 2-3-4-5-6 covered. |
| E6 | Thumb half-holed (pinched) · holes 1-2-3-4-5 covered. |
| F6 | Thumb half-holed (pinched) · holes 1-2-3-4-6 covered. |
| F♯6 | Thumb half-holed (pinched) · holes 1-2-3-5 covered. |
| G6 | Thumb half-holed (pinched) · holes 1-2-3 covered. |
| A♭6 | Thumb half-holed (pinched) · holes 1-2-4 covered. |
| A6 | Thumb half-holed (pinched) · holes 1-2 covered. |
| B♭6 | Thumb half-holed (pinched) · holes 1-2-4-5-6 covered. |
| B6 | Thumb half-holed (pinched) · holes 1-2-4-5 covered. Also usedThumb covered · holes 2-3 covered. |
| C7 | Thumb half-holed (pinched) · holes 1-4-5 covered. |
Printing tips
This is the wall chart for the recorder classroom: laminate the filled version, and print blank worksheets by the class set. The Recorder in the Classroom guide explains how to run the first lessons from it. Diagrams are filled and open circles, so black-and-white photocopies — the way most classes will actually get it — stay perfectly readable.
Try a note in the Fingering Finder
Pick an instrument and a note and the diagram updates instantly — filled keys are the ones you press. The same finder sits on every note page, pre-set to that note.
Notes students check most
See also the recorder fingering chart and the printable fingering charts index for the other instruments.
Is the printable recorder fingering chart really free?
Yes — both PDFs are free for classroom and personal use, with no sign-up. Print a whole class set if you need one.
Is this Baroque or German fingering?
Baroque (English) is the charted system — the forked F is the tell. The German-system F is shown in a marked panel on the printable and explained on the chart page, because mixed classrooms are common; no German fingerings are mixed into the main grid.
Does the PDF match the online recorder chart?
Exactly — generated from the same data file, checked against the Woodwind Fingering Guide's recorder charts and the NoteAtlas recorder chart; all 25 fingerings agree, and Yamaha's official guidance confirms the Baroque fork-F definition.