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. All sorts of useful online flute trill charts and fingering charts for free.
5. 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. All sorts of useful online flute trill charts and fingering charts for free.
5. An article on flute alternate fingerings (for intermediate/advanced players.)
Happy Holidays and HO HO HO!
Jen Cluff
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Comments (36)
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