C#m chord on guitar
C# minor
C#m is a minor chord with three notes: C#, E and G#. 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 B string, fret 5
- Ring on the D string, fret 6
- Pinky on the G 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 6 5 4low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in C#m
- C#root
- Eminor third
- G#perfect fifth
A minor chord is the root, a minor third and a perfect fifth. The only difference from the major chord is the third, one fret lower. E is the minor third, three frets above the root. G# is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: G#4perfect fifth
- B string: E4minor third
- G string: C#4root
- D string: G#3perfect fifth
- A string: C#3root
- low E string: not played
Every note of C#m is in this shape, some of them twice.
Another way to play it
- Barre at fret 99 11 11 9 9 9Root on the low E string.
Related chords
Other C# chords
Relative major
The relative major of C#m is E. The C# natural minor scale uses the same seven notes as the E major scale.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play C#m 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.