Cm7 chord on guitar
C minor 7th
Cm7 is a minor 7th chord with four notes: C, Eb, G and Bb. Learn it first as a barre at fret 3, your index finger flat across five strings. Below: where each finger goes, which strings to skip and one more way 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
- Index flat across fret 3, from the A string to the high e
- Middle on the B string, fret 4
- Ring on the D string, fret 5
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
- Barre at fret 3index finger across five strings at fret 3
- Fingers
- Threeindex, middle and ring
- Strings played
- FiveA, D, G, B and high e
- Open strings
- Noneevery played string is fretted
- Lowest note
- C3the root, on the A string
- Frets
- x 3 5 3 4 3low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Cm7
- Croot
- Ebminor third
- Gperfect fifth
- Bbminor seventh
A minor 7th chord is a minor chord with a minor seventh added on top. Eb is the minor third, three frets above the root. G is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root. Bb is the minor seventh, ten frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: G4perfect fifth
- B string: Eb4minor third
- G string: Bb3minor seventh
- D string: G3perfect fifth
- A string: C3root
- low E string: not played
Every note of Cm7 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Another way to play it
- Barre at fret 88 10 8 8 8 8Root 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 Cm7 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.