Individual note guide

A recorder fingering

See exactly which holes to cover on a soprano recorder. This fingering is written as A4 and sounds as A5.

Baroque and German

A fingering

Thumb + holes 1–2

  1. Cover the back thumb hole.
  2. Cover left-hand holes 1 and 2.
  3. Keep the remaining finger holes open.

Fingering patterns are checked against established resources from the American Recorder Society and Yamaha.