Where do my fingers go?

Reading music and playing music are two different skills. Once you can read a line of notation, the next question is always the same, and it is the one a staff diagram cannot answer. These are the reference charts for the instruments people actually ask about.

Woodwind fingering charts

Interactive charts for flute, clarinet and the whole saxophone family - soprano, alto, tenor and baritone. Altissimo is included rather than treated as a separate mystery, so the register above the standard range is laid out with the same clarity as everything below it.

Guitar and bass fretboards

Note positions across the neck, and not only in standard tuning. Five-string and high-C basses are covered alongside four, and six, seven and eight-string guitars are mapped too. The instruments usually left out of a fretboard chart are the ones players most need charted.

Trumpet valve fingerings

Which valve combination produces which note, through the range - the same reference format as the woodwind charts, so a player moving between instruments reads the same kind of diagram rather than learning a new one.

Transposing instruments and concert pitch

Why a written C on an alto saxophone is not a C on the piano, and how B-flat, E-flat and F instruments line up against concert pitch. This is the piece that quietly blocks people the first time they try to play from the same page as someone else, so it is spelled out rather than assumed.

Frequently asked questions

Which instruments are covered?

Flute, clarinet, the full saxophone family, guitar, bass and trumpet - including less common variants like five-string and high-C bass, and seven and eight-string guitar.

Are altissimo saxophone fingerings included?

Yes. Altissimo is part of the saxophone charts rather than a separate resource.

What is a transposing instrument?

One whose written notes sound at a different pitch than concert pitch - B-flat, E-flat and F instruments are the common cases. The charts show how each lines up with concert pitch so you can play from the same page as everyone else.