Individual note guide

B recorder fingering

See exactly which holes to cover on a soprano recorder. This fingering is written as B4 and sounds as B5.

Baroque and German

B fingering

Thumb + hole 1

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

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