Caug chord on banjo

The Caug chord diagram on banjo, the notes it is built from, and the Alviena charts that use it.

The diagram

Songs to play with the Caug chord on banjo

Which chords go with Caug

Across the sheets in the catalogue, Caug most often appears alongside these chords. Learn them together and you can play a whole song.

The notes in Caug

E · Ab · C

The chord is built from 3 distinct pitches. A shape may double them an octave apart: the same note then appears more than once without changing the chord.

The shape, string by string

1 muted string

StringFretNote
42E
31Ab
21C
12E

Other C chords

The same colour, on another root

Caug on other instruments