The tables below show you the fingering charts of our flutes, and more globally, of the minor pentatonic flutes. For each key (right column),they give you the notes obtained by placing your fingers following the finger chart on the top...Click on each table to get a bigger printable version.
To make things easier, all the half tones are written with a "#"...
If you are familiar to read some of these half tones with the flat extension (b),
here is a little table with equivalences:
A#=Bb
G#=Ab
F#=Gb
D#=Eb
C#=Db
5 holes - pentatonic mode 1
The most simple to learn...
6 holes - pentatonic mode 1
The easier scale on a 6 holes flute...
6 holes - pentatonic mode 4
Usually, our six holes flutes, like most, are both tuned to mode 1 and mode 4, so if you want to try the mode 4 as well, here is...
6 holes - diatonic (or major scale)
The well know "do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do" scale...Even if our flutes are not basically tuned to this scale, you can try it, using the fingering below...
6 holes - chromatic (all the notes)
On this one, you can see all the notes theorically possible on a NAF...But keep in mind that each flute is different, and some fingering may not work.
The orange ones are put on the chart, but are very hard to obtain.
The yellow notes are on the upper octave, and although the first one work basically, the nexts may need an alternate fingering, or may not work on some flutes.
Alternate fingerings
Mostly needed for the upper octave notes, these fingerings may work better on your flute than the ones given above.
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