C#maj7 chord on guitar
C# major 7th
C#maj7 is a major 7th chord with four notes: C#, E#, G# and B#. Learn it first as a barre at fret 4, 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 4, from the A string to the high e
- Middle on the G string, fret 5
- Ring on the D string, fret 6
- Pinky on the B string, fret 6
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 4index finger across five strings at fret 4
- Fingers
- Fourindex, middle, ring and pinky
- Strings played
- FiveA, D, G, B and high e
- Open strings
- Noneevery played string is fretted
- Lowest note
- C#3the root, on the A string
- Frets
- x 4 6 5 6 4low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in C#maj7
- C#root
- E#major third
- G#perfect fifth
- B#major 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.
E# sounds the same as F. It is spelled E# because the third of C# is always a kind of E.
B# sounds the same as C. It is spelled B# because the seventh of C# is always a kind of B.
String by string
- high e string: G#4perfect fifth
- B string: E#4major third
- G string: B#3major seventh
- D string: G#3perfect fifth
- A string: C#3root
- low E string: not played
Every note of C#maj7 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Another way to play it
- At fret 99 x 10 10 9 xRoot on the low E string.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play C#maj7 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.