ARPEGGIO FINGERING

all 24 keys · right hand and left · after Hanon, exercise 41

Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.

Three sizes in one archive — from a sheet on the fridge to a poster on the wall.

Formats: A4 · A3 · A2
What you get: Print-ready PDFs, one per size, with every letterform converted to outlines — nothing to install, nothing to shift.
Subject: music · beginners · reference · music room

The digits are in playing order: the ascending run over two octaves as the source prints it. After the bottom note every note of the chord takes the same finger in every octave, and the top note, where the run ends, takes the closing digit the source prints at its turn. The filled key is the one the thumb takes.

THE THUMB LOOKS FOR THE WHITE KEY IN THE CHORD

Twenty-four keys look like twenty-four sets of digits until you notice what decides them: find the white key in the triad, and that is where the thumb goes. In C major all three are white, so the rule forbids nothing; in E flat major only G is white, and both hands land on it.

That is why there are far fewer numbers than there seem to be. All 24 keys come down to 6 hand shapes: within a shape the fingers stand the same way, and only the keys underneath them change.

Two keys break the rule, and there it had to break: G flat major and E flat minor are the only triads with no white key at all. There the thumb takes a black key, because there is nothing else to take.

On the sheet

The digits are in playing order: the ascending run over two octaves as the source prints it. After the bottom note every note of the chord takes the same finger in every octave, and the top note, where the run ends, takes the closing digit the source prints at its turn. The filled key is the one the thumb takes.
Colour carries meaning, but meaning never rests on colour alone — the sheet reads in black and white.
Nothing about how it was made: the sheet carries only what the reader needs.

Printing

Three sizes in the archive: A4 — 210×297 mm, A3 — 297×420 mm, A2 — 420×594 mm.
All text is converted to outlines. No fonts to install, and nothing shifts on another machine.
White background and sparing fills — it prints on a home printer without draining the cartridge.
Margins of at least 10 mm: a home printer cannot print to the edge.
No stroke thinner than 0.3 mm, so nothing disappears in print.

Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 12 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.

ARPEGGIO FINGERING

THE THUMB LOOKS FOR THE WHITE KEY IN THE CHORD

On the sheet

Printing

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