Individual note guide

High D recorder fingering

See exactly which holes to cover on a soprano recorder. This fingering is written as D5 and sounds as D6.

Baroque and German

High D fingering

Hole 2

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

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