Flute Fingering Chart for free
Dear Flutists and Flute Teachers,
I have created some free downloadable flute fingering charts in pdf, also some fingering chart blank pages ( 2 pages for filling in notes and fingerings) and other helpful items for those looking for specialized fingerings for the flute.
Please help yourself.
1. Basic Flute Fingering Chart (free two-page PDF)
2. Fingering chart blank (for writing in new fingerings for trills, tremelos, and alternate flute fingerings)
3. Common misfingerings in Band Flutists (this pdf shows the common mis-fingerings, and also, very importantly, explains the three common fingerings for B-flat)
4. Where to put your fingers to play the flute: This diagram in pdf is easy to read.
5. All sorts of useful online flute trill charts and fingering charts for free.
6. An article on flute alternate fingerings (for intermediate/advanced players.)
Happy Holidays and HO HO HO!
Jen Cluff
I have created some free downloadable flute fingering charts in pdf, also some fingering chart blank pages ( 2 pages for filling in notes and fingerings) and other helpful items for those looking for specialized fingerings for the flute.
Please help yourself.
1. Basic Flute Fingering Chart (free two-page PDF)
2. Fingering chart blank (for writing in new fingerings for trills, tremelos, and alternate flute fingerings)
3. Common misfingerings in Band Flutists (this pdf shows the common mis-fingerings, and also, very importantly, explains the three common fingerings for B-flat)
4. Where to put your fingers to play the flute: This diagram in pdf is easy to read.
5. All sorts of useful online flute trill charts and fingering charts for free.
6. An article on flute alternate fingerings (for intermediate/advanced players.)
Happy Holidays and HO HO HO!
Jen Cluff
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Comments (84)
Marvelous! I thought I was going crazy seeing as the only decent chart (without ads on it for yucky flutes) were un-printable. Thank you so much!
Sheila
Thanks for your blog. There are a numbers of music education blogs out there, and I particularly enjoy the ones like your that focus on pedagogy. Those like me - music teachers who are not flute specialists - appreciate folks like you who give information we wouldn't necessarily have otherwise.
Thankyou for your comment Stengel. Nice to hear from you about Pedagogical usefulness. Thanks. Jen :>)
Great for your blog. I'm from Indonesia. Now, i am beginner in flute and i have some question where did i buy flute and with cheap price of course. Where did i start to study a flute. appreciate for your respond. keep on share information about flute. thank you.
Cheap flutes don't last, and can be frustrating to play.
I would look for a second-hand Yamaha flute for around $200 if you can find one, and make sure it is fully functional. Take it to a private teacher to test, and be sure to get lessons. You'll play much better, much faster on a good instrument with a good teacher.
See articles on this site about buying a used flute, and finding a teacher:
http://www.jennifercluff.com/used.htm
and
http://www.jennifercluff.com/finding.htm
Best of luck,
Jen
Dear Jennifer,
Thanks you the clear flute fingering charts of a more legible format. But it still leaves with the problem of E & F having the same fingerings in 1st and 2nd octaves! I will need to ask my teacher about this as I would love to play the whole scale. I have heard about over blowing and rolling-in. But I will need help with that.
Admittedly I have acquired some suggested alternatives elsewhere, but I don’t know if they are correct. Maybe my guitar tuner will prove this to be true or false.
Even so, modern the flute is a remarkable development.
I have only just started to learn to play , and wish I'd started years ago.
A mid-life crisis in the positive sense!
Gary
Folkestone, England.
Dear Gary,
Actually, when I learned the flute at age 11 I was HAPPY that several of the fingerings were just the same in the low and middle octaves, and that overblowing (increasing the air-speed) was all that was needed. "Rolling in" is a slightly wrong instruction, in my opinion. And I have never heard of any other fingerings for F and E in the middle register other than the basic ones. Curious.....Jen :>)
WOW!!! My mom had a chart for fingering, but i couldn't find it. This fingering chart is awesome! It's legible, and prints, too.
Glad it helped, Terra.
Best, Jen :>)
I tried many flute charts and yours was the only correct. Every one would make common mistakes like says this fingering was this note when it was the next note up. good job! :)
Dear Chelsey,
Yes, I grew up with a fingering chart (very old, very smudged, very photocopied) that gave the wrong fingering for high Bb; so I know what you mean; it's STILL hard to find a good flute fingering chart that's absolutely correct.
I get the impression that many flute-publishers don't proof-read their charts.
Best, and thanks for the comments.
Jen :>)
... An excellent fingering chart, well made, and prints clear and clean. Folks who provide this sort of resource free of charge are the kind of people we need more of ....
Thanks for saying so.
J.
Jennifer, thanks so much for posting this. I'm just starting out with the flute and this fingering chart makes it so much easier on me. thanks again.
-a very grateful beginner
Thank YOU for writing and saying so Hula. Best, Jen :>)
Thank you so much for doing this! It has been over 10 years since I last played and I'm excited to use your charts to get back into it!
Thanks Travis. Happy to be of help! :>)
This is an excellent resource, I'm so happy to have found this chart and your blog!
I'm reintroducing myself to the flute after a greater than ten year absence from the instrument, and this chart has been a great help.
Big love from the T-dot,
--Nico
Thanks Nico.
Is T-dot some kind of short-hand?
J.
AH HA!
T-dot is what I thought it is.
T.O. the big city from whence I came.
Say hello to the Annex for me.
Best,
Jen :>)
I love what you have on this site! quick question...Is there an alternate fingering pattern for Russian Easter Overture ...upper register a,f#e,f#,c#f#,e,f#,repeated rapid section? thanks for any help or advice!
Laura
For the pattern you mention, have you already tried overblowing B to get F#3 and A to get E3?
Jen
thanks! I will try that
Laura
Hi I'm a beggining player and our band instructer gave us a fingering chart at the beggining of the year and i lost mine the other day i thought no big deal until today my band instructer told us to bring our fingering charts to class tomarrow your chart is a lifesaver it's a wonderful site
Glad you found it in time.
best, J.
Thank You very much for posting this Fingering Chart.
Thank you, Jennifer for this flute chart.
I've been learning on my own up today, but I'm starting regular lessons with a teacher. This chart will be very helpful.
From Mexico City, Arturo
Thank you very much for the blank fingering charts. They are such a help!
Kristin
Just Perfect!
Really loved the whole pages.
You are doing a nice job :)
Best,
Mehran
Thank you so much I am in my second year of flute, and when I swiched schools, the school that I'm at now is higher then me. This fingering chart should help a lot!!! :)
Thank you so much for posting your website, especially the fingering chart and videos. I'm a string player and former clarinet player who "inherited" my daughter's flute am trying to learn it on my own.
Fiddl2
you really need a full length scale
Finley wrote: You really need a full length scale.
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Jen writes:
Sorry, did your sentence get cut off? Don't understand exactly what you mean.
J.
I have just retired from full-time woodwind teaching and played/performed with my organist husband in the past. Now I find myself playing with an orchestra and we are performing Sait-Saens Carnaval des Animaux. I am sooooooo happy with your advice and practice tips. Your site is in my favorites! Thanks heaps. Adya
Thanks Adya.
So kind of you to say so.
Onward and upward.
Best,
Jen
At last!!! A fingering chart that makes sense & refers to the notes at the same time. I'm new to the flute & being older I find a little difficulty in putting it all together. Thanks again.
John L. Rossland BC
I am a humble engineer who never took formal studies of music. Your fingering chart allowed me to quickly make progresses and to enjoy the instrument while in a long-term assignment very far from my family. Thank you very much.
Dear Deme,
Happy to hear it.
Onward and upward!
Best, J.
It is 30 years since I last played my flute & in the meantime I have not only lost my embouchure but also have even forgotten which keys to rest my fingers on!!! Your chart is superb & should get me going again (even at my age?!). Thank you!
I'm an alto sax player doubling onto flute, and I have to say this blog post was probably the most useful thing i've come across so far. Thanks for putting it up!
Thanks you soooooo much for putting this up!!!:)
I'm fixing to start teaching flute to a girl at my church and had no idea how I was gonna show her the fingering.
Thanks again!!!
excellent chart .. I have played the flute for many years .. but have neglected playing for a few years and I'm trying to play again Hindemith Sonate --- your chart helpful for the high keys again!
www.adamgill.com
Wow, you must really love Hindemith in order to learn the high register fingerings! hahhahahahaha.
Jen
I want to thank you for this chart! My daughter is in her second year of playing flute and had forgotten how to play some of the notes. I looked up a fingering chart and found yours! Thank you it was very helpful!
So glad I could help.
There's nothing more annoying then finding out you've been using wrong fingerings when you finally start private lessons. They take so long to unlearn and relearn.
Good job.
Best,
Jen
Hi jen,
This may be silly, but can you show me the finger chart for Fb?
Dear Anonymous,
Can you find a piano nearby? Find F and then go down one semi-tone to find F-flat. What note is it? What's it's other name?
You can do it on the flute too. Play F and then go down one half-step to the next note.
It will be a note you already know well. J.
Thanks for the chart. I play saxophone and bassoon and just started to learn flute by myself today but couldn't find a good fingering chart until yours. It's awesome! :)
Thank you for the flute fingering chart! It helped on my Chromatic Scale pass offs!
Thanks for the charts there awesome, since im trying to learn how to play on the flute all by myself its still confusing.
Dear Ida,
Be sure to take a few lessons to unconfuse the beginner. Saves you YEARS of time in the long run.
Best, Jen
I'm a 34 year old who used to play flute and piccolo in grades 4-8. I thought it would be good to dust it off after a few decades and give it another go. Thanks for the charts, I couldn't have remembered it without you!
You're welcome Alison! Jen
Jennifer,
Thank you so much for posting so many wonderful resources! You are being very helpful to lots and lots of people!
Heyy , the fingering chart was awesome . I couldn't find a good one till I saw yours ... Anw , I have problems with playing the normal 'c' . Is there a proper way to hold the flute steadily while playing it ?
How to hold the flute steadily while playing "C" is here:
http://www.jennifercluff.com/lineup.htm
Best, Jen
Thank you, this chart is just what I needed for my 11 year old Granddaughter.....I write and play classical guitar and piano, but I am a little out of my element with the flute....you have alleviated some stress. smiling in Tucson
You are so welcome in Tucson!
Best, Jen
The most wonderful chart I have found, and the only one I understood, I had a rather extensive piece I wanted to play, and it had A lot of high notes (that I didn't know) in it. this really helped!! Thank you!!
Whitney
Hi Whitney,
Yes, some are very tricky to read when the flute is shown vertically instead of horizontally, or with numbers/code instead of circles for the keys.
Glad to help.
Jen
thank you so much i was going insane trying to find something like this!! :)
Dear Anon,
I *know*!!
It's the simplest thing in the world: a great, easy to read flute fingering chart that's printable multiple times, for free, for everyone who's learning the flute.
How simple; yet how crazy that they're so hard to find.
That's why I wrote it up.
Anyone can write one and put it up.
So easy nowadays with a paint program.
So glad to help.
Best, Jen
THXXX Sooooo MUCH
Hi Jennifer, I have a friend who is in need of someone who can show her flute fingerings. I used to play the flute and went online to find a fingering chart. Yours is by far the most legible. Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving.
Gratefully, MR, Seattle
Thanks MR! Happy news. So glad to help. Best, Jen
Thank you! Just letting you know this is much appreciated.
Thank you so much but as I am a proffesional flutist, I will comment that some note fingerings in the high octave for the PDF file are wrong. The middle octave chart really helped and is still helping my students. The ones at River Trail Middle School are really using the charts!!!! Thank you so much Jennifer Cluff!!!!!!!
Dear Mr. Via,
Please tell me which fingerings are wrong. Thankyou. Jen
Dear Mr. Via,
I have checked and re-checked the high octave fingerings; I cannot find any that are wrong. Please let me know. Thanks. Jen
Thank you! I am also picking the flute up again after many years.
hi i am a new beginer and with out ur help i would of givin up playing the flute now i am preforming in assemblys at school every month ur the best
Dear Jenny,
I'm glad to know the fingering chart is helpful. If you really love the flute, take private lessons for 30 minutes a week. You will improve so much faster, you won't believe it.
Best, Jen
Thanks! I'm picking up my flute again for the first time in about 18 years. It's starting to come back to me again after looking at your charts.
Hi you're blog is really nice and easy to read... i was hoping if you can answer my question, im a begginer and im confuse about the finger chart where the right pinky is on. there is only two things that pinky can click, like this |= but in the figer chart there is 3 horizontal lines. im really confuse, does it mean i just have to hold the top horizontal half way? or i dont really know....please explain thanks!
Dear Miaw,
The pinky normally uses one tear-drop shaped key, which is the closest key to reach, immediately to the right of the key used by the ring finger.
T123 | 123)
The additional keys for the pinky are only used for the lowest notes.
If your flute has a C-foot, there will be one horizontal "roller" and one flat "spatula" key:
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T123 | 123 ) o
If your flute has a B-foot, there will be two horizontal "rollers" as well as the flat spatula key:
=
T123 | 123 ) o
A flute teacher will explain all this to you.
Best, Jen
I hit the jackpot! I am a 68 year old "girl" who has always wanted to learn the flute. I play banjo, mandolin, and guitar, but love the sound of the flute. I bought a silver Gemeinhardt a week ago and have been watching Youtube for instructions. I think your fingering guide is amazing. So clear and easy to understand. Thanks for taking the time to share.
Mina
Thanks Mina!
Jen
It's no wonder you have so many fantastic comments. Your blog is so helpul and I can't agree more with everyone else about the fingering chart. Thanks!
Thanks so much Lindzi. I think it's hilarious-dasterdly-unbelievable that fingering charts are so hard to find. They should be all over the place; they should be in every flute case on an easy-to-read plastic card, or something.
It's just wild.
Honestly. We can put a man on the moon...(but we can't find our flute fingering charts!)
hahhahahaa.
Thanks again everyone for your lovely complimentary comments. :>)
Best, Jen
Thanks for sharing a fingering chart that is big enough to read easily! At 61 and after not plalying for 43 years I have dusted off my flute!Your chart is helping me remember whatI had forgotten. I have joind a SR. citizens band and am having such fun! I know it will take lots of practice to regain skills so long unused. I am enjoying relearning an instument I love. At this age prctice is fun not a chore as it was when younger! Thanks for sharing! Cheryl
Dear Cheryl,
Thanks for sharing! :>)
Happy times.
Best, Jen
this is the best fingering chart i have found. really big and easy to read.. thanks!!! :)
Thanks Chloe! >)
Jen
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