Cmaj7 chord on guitar
C major 7th
Cmaj7 is a major 7th chord with four notes: C, E, G and B. Learn it first as an open shape: three open strings and two fingers on the frets. Below: where each finger goes, which strings to skip and two more ways to play it.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right. The chord detector is free and listens through your mic.
How to play it
- Middle on the D string, fret 2
- Ring on the A string, fret 3
The number in each note head is the finger: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky.
Strings to skip
Skip the low E string and strum from the A string down.
- Shape
- Open shape
- Fingers
- Twomiddle and ring
- Strings played
- FiveA, D, G, B and high e
- Open strings
- Threethe G, B and high e strings
- Lowest note
- C3the root, on the A string
- Frets
- x 3 2 0 0 0low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Cmaj7
- Croot
- Emajor third
- Gperfect fifth
- Bmajor seventh
A major 7th chord is a major chord with a major seventh added, one fret below the root an octave up. E is the major third, four frets above the root. G is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root. B is the major seventh, eleven frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: E4major third
- B string: B3major seventh
- G string: G3perfect fifth
- D string: E3major third
- A string: C3root
- low E string: not played
Every note of Cmaj7 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Other ways to play it
- Barre at fret 3x 3 5 4 5 3Root on the A string.
- At fret 88 x 9 9 8 xRoot on the low E string.
Related chords
All 111 chords in the chartStrum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play Cmaj7 and Lark names the chord it hears, with the notes in it. In the app, the chord book has all 111 chords, string by string.