Individual note guide

D recorder fingering

See exactly which holes to cover on a soprano recorder. This fingering is written as D4 and sounds as D5.

Baroque and German

D fingering

Thumb + holes 1–6

  1. Cover the back thumb hole.
  2. Cover left-hand holes 1, 2 and 3.
  3. Cover right-hand holes 4, 5 and 6.
  4. Keep the remaining finger holes open.

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