Individual note guide

C recorder fingering

See exactly which holes to cover on a soprano recorder. This fingering is written as C4 and sounds as C5.

Baroque and German

C fingering

Thumb + holes 1–7

  1. Cover the back thumb hole.
  2. Cover left-hand holes 1, 2 and 3.
  3. Cover right-hand holes 4, 5, 6 and 7.

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