C5 chord on guitar
C power chord
C5 is a power chord with two notes: C and G. Learn it first at fret 3, with three fingers. 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 on the A string, fret 3
- Ring on the D string, fret 5
- Pinky on the G string, fret 5
The number in each note head is the finger: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky.
Strings to skip
Play only the A, D and G strings. Keep the low E, B and high e strings silent.
- Shape
- At fret 3
- Fingers
- Threeindex, ring and pinky
- Strings played
- ThreeA, D and G
- Open strings
- Noneevery played string is fretted
- Lowest note
- C3the root, on the A string
- Frets
- x 3 5 5 x xlow E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in C5
- Croot
- Gperfect fifth
A power chord is only the root and the perfect fifth. With no third, it is neither major nor minor. G is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: not played
- B string: not played
- G string: C4root
- D string: G3perfect fifth
- A string: C3root
- low E string: not played
Every note of C5 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Another way to play it
- At fret 88 10 10 x x 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 C5 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.