Printable Trombone Slide Position Chart

Download the PDFs

If you searched for a trombone slide chart pdf, this is the file: one clean grid for the classroom wall, with the standard alternate positions marked so students can see where the slide can stay put instead of travelling.

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

Every note shows its mainstream position — the positions the majority of published charts teach. Twenty notes carry a published alternate, including Yamaha's three badged alternates (F3 in 6th, D4 in 4th, F4 in 4th). One honest footnote runs with the chart: for G♭4 and G4, Yamaha's chart draws shorter seventh-partial positions, while the other published charts teach the mainstream 5th and 4th positions this chart prints — the note pages explain the choice in full. The blank worksheet prints the diagrams with the position left to the student.

The full chart, online

Prefer to check a note on screen, hear it, or look up one fingering at a time? The trombone slide position chart has all of it — and every note below links to its own page with the diagram, the sound and the fingering in words.

Printing tips

Laminate the filled chart for the low-brass wall; trombone students check positions more than any other brass players because the slide gives no tactile feedback. Set the blank worksheet by rows — the first-octave ladder first, then the alternates. The position numbers are large type, so a black-and-white photocopy stays legible from a stand away.

Notes students check most

• B♭2 fingering
• F3 fingering
• B♭4 fingering

See also the trombone slide position chart and the printable fingering charts index for the other instruments.