Printable Trumpet Fingering Chart
The printable trumpet fingering chart, drawn big and readable: all 31 notes from low F♯3 to high C6, each with its valve combination in large type. This is the most photocopied chart in school bands, so it is designed like one — one clear grid, the valve numbers impossible to misread from the back row, and the published alternate fingerings marked beside the basics.
Download the PDFs
The same chart covers cornet and flugelhorn, which use identical valve combinations.
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 basic valve combination; the eleven notes with a published alternate (valve 3 standing in for 1+2 on A and E, and the others listed on the chart page) show it marked as an alternate. A tuning note runs with the chart: combinations using 1+3 and 1+2+3 play sharp, and the third-slide ring or saddle is how trumpet players pull them into tune — the note pages explain it per note. The blank worksheet prints the same grid with empty valve circles for the classic brass-class quiz.
The full chart, online
Prefer to check a note on screen, hear it, or look up one fingering at a time? The trumpet 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 |
|---|---|
| F♯3 | Valves 1 + 2 + 3 pressed. |
| G3 | Valves 1 + 3 pressed. |
| G♯3 | Valves 2 + 3 pressed. |
| A3 | Valves 1 + 2 pressed. Also usedValve 3 pressed. |
| B♭3 | Valve 1 pressed. |
| B3 | Valve 2 pressed. |
| C4 | Open — no valves pressed at all. |
| C♯4 | Valves 1 + 2 + 3 pressed. |
| D4 | Valves 1 + 3 pressed. |
| E♭4 | Valves 2 + 3 pressed. |
| E4 | Valves 1 + 2 pressed. Also usedValve 3 pressed. |
| F4 | Valve 1 pressed. |
| F♯4 | Valve 2 pressed. |
| G4 | Open — no valves pressed at all. Also usedValves 1 + 3 pressed. |
| G♯4 | Valves 2 + 3 pressed. |
| A4 | Valves 1 + 2 pressed. Also usedValve 3 pressed. |
| B♭4 | Valve 1 pressed. |
| B4 | Valve 2 pressed. |
| C5 | Open — no valves pressed at all. Also usedValves 2 + 3 pressed. |
| C♯5 | Valves 1 + 2 pressed. Also usedValves 1 + 3 pressed. |
| D5 | Valve 1 pressed. Also usedValves 1 + 3 pressed. |
| E♭5 | Valve 2 pressed. Also usedValves 2 + 3 pressed. |
| E5 | Open — no valves pressed at all. Also usedValves 1 + 2 pressed. |
| F5 | Valve 1 pressed. |
| F♯5 | Valve 2 pressed. |
| G5 | Open — no valves pressed at all. Also usedValves 1 + 3 pressed. |
| G♯5 | Valves 2 + 3 pressed. |
| A5 | Valves 1 + 2 pressed. Also usedValve 3 pressed. |
| B♭5 | Valve 1 pressed. |
| B5 | Valve 2 pressed. |
| C6 | Open — no valves pressed at all. |
Printing tips
Print it large for the classroom wall — this chart is read at a distance more than any other on the site. In the practice folder, the filled chart plus the blank worksheet make a complete first term: learn a row, then fill it in from memory a week later. It prints in black and white without losing anything; the valve numbers are type, not colour.
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 trumpet fingering chart and the printable fingering charts index for the other instruments.
Is the printable trumpet fingering chart really free?
Yes — the filled chart and the blank worksheet are free PDFs for classroom and personal use, with no sign-up.
Does this chart work for cornet and flugelhorn too?
Yes. Trumpet, cornet and flugelhorn use exactly the same valve combinations for every note, so one printable serves all three — each has its own chart page online, built on this same note set.
Does the PDF match the online trumpet chart?
Exactly — generated from the same data file, checked against the Yamaha trumpet fingering guide and the NoteAtlas trumpet chart; all 31 fingerings agree across both sources.