Woodwind Trainer
Fingerings for flute, clarinet, saxophones, oboe, and bassoon with Speed Match and Key Builder.
Learn woodwind fingerings two ways
Woodwind Trainer covers flute, clarinet, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophone, oboe, and bassoon. It has two modes. Speed Match shows a written note and asks you to pick the correct fingering chart quickly. Key Builder asks you to press the keys and cover the tone holes yourself on an interactive diagram, which is closer to what your fingers really do.
Speed Match builds quick recognition for sight-reading. Key Builder builds exact recall, including the side keys, trill keys, and register keys that are easy to forget.
How to practice
- 01Choose your instrument and start with Speed Match at the Beginner range.
- 02Switch to Key Builder for any note you keep missing.
- 03Finger along on your instrument as you answer, even without playing.
- 04Say the note name as you finger it, so your eyes, name, and hands connect.
- 05Before a new piece, drill the notes that sit just outside the range you already know.
Written pitch vs concert pitch
Many woodwinds are transposing instruments: the note you read is not the pitch that sounds. When a clarinet plays a written C, the band hears a concert B♭. When an alto saxophone plays a written C, it sounds a concert E♭. This trainer uses written pitch, the notes on your part.
Clarinet overblows a twelfth, not an octave. That is why its upper-register fingerings don't simply repeat the lower ones the way flute and saxophone fingerings do.
Who it's for
Beginning woodwind players, students doubling on a second instrument, and saxophone or clarinet players moving into a wider range.