Here are some flute fingering chart resources for you if you are the type who wants to have a hard copy on your music stand . Of course, there are also many, many options for fingering charts which can be printed off the web and some on the web which are interactive. For example –
https://www.fluteland.com/Flute_Fingering_Chart.php
Jennifer Cluff, Canadian flutist and teacher, has an extensive on-line presence including –
Best Flute Fingering Charts Online
https://www.jennifercluff.com/fingering.htm#online
From the Virtual Flute –
Just look for what is easy for you to read and covers the range you need. It is so exciting to see the other options like alternate fingerings, pitch variances and fingerings with any optional keys on your own flute. Choose for yourself and maybe one for students.
Note that James Pellerite’s book offers multiple fingerings for notes so that you can choose which one works best for you and your particular flute with regard to tone and intonation.
Mel Bay’s Fingering Chart – Large, plasticized and includes Major and Minor scales on the back. Great to keep at hand in you flute bag. 8 1/2 x 11.
Order from your favorite flute music source or www.sheetmusicplus.com
Rubank Advanced Method Vol. 1 for Flute
Includes fingering chart which goes up to F7!
A Modern Guide to Fingerings for the Flute, by James Pellerite
Available through www.amazon.com and www.sheetmusicplus.com
Published by Alfred Music Publishing (AP.2887). ISBN 0882844490. One of the most complete guides for the flute ever published! Covers basic fingerings, trills, tremolos (3rds through octaves), quarter-tones, multi-phonics. A unique reference book for flutists. James J. Pellerite, Professor of Flute, Indiana University.
Special Fingerings for Advanced Flutists, by Ervin Monroe
An advanced guide to fingerings that improve technique, intonation and musical sensitivity. Available from Little Piper at www.little-piper.com
Trill Fingerings
- Brannen Brother Flutes C# Trill Fingering Chart (Copy included under Resources)
- Rubank Intermediate Method Trill Fingering Chart, Page 42-43 (Complicated to read)
- Rubank Advanced Method, Vol. 1 Trill Fingering Chart, Page 58-59 (Easy to read)
- Young Artist Series Master Lessons by Jim Walker; Fantasie , Page 28
- Alternative Fingerings for the Flute by Nestor Herzbaum
Alternate Fingerings
- Alternate Fingerings: French Model B-Foot Flute Jim Walker
- Young Artist Series Master Lessons by Jim Walker; Fantasie, Page 26-27
- Mats Möller’s New Sounds for Flute www.sfz.se
More Web Resources for Flute Fingerings
If you Google “flute fingering charts” you will get 153,000 results. Here are a few that looked good. There is even a YouTube video on how to read flute fingering charts!
- www.amromusic.com: flute finger chart C1 – C4
- www.fluteinfo.com: flute fingering chart to G4! Downloadable to you iphone!
- www.wfg.woodwind.org: Flute fingerings by octave as well as trill and tremolos
Printable
- www.sfz.se: Quarter tone fingering chart for flute
- www.herzbaum.com: Includes standard fingerings, trills, tremolos, alternate, harmonic, piano, forte and unusual fingerings. By Nestor Herzbaum
- www.flutetunes.com: Includes fourth register fingerings to G (G7)!
Web Resources for Piccolo Fingerings
Piccolo alternate Fingerings – all octaves!!
https://www.wfg.woodwind.org/flute/picc_alt_1.html
Baroque Flute Fingerings
- Jacques-Martin Hotteterre. Priciples of the Flute Recorder and Oboe.
- Translated by Paul Marshall Douglas.
- Johan Joachim Quantz. On Playing the Flute.