C chord on guitar
The C chord diagram on guitar, the notes it is built from, and the Alviena charts that use it.
The diagram
Songs to play with the C chord on guitar
- Hey Soul Sister — Train
- Dernière Danse — Kyo
- Cette Année Là — Claude François
- Liberta — Pep's
- Big Jet Plane — Angus & Julia Stone
- Numb — Linkin Park
- She Will Be Loved — Maroon 5
- Aïcha — Khaled
- Soleil Bleu — Luiza
- Lucie — Pascal Obispo
- Cendrillon — Téléphone
- Pour Que Tu M'aimes Encore — Céline Dion
Which chords go with C
Across the sheets in the catalogue, C most often appears alongside these chords. Learn them together and you can play a whole song.
The notes in C
C · E · G
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
2 open strings · 1 muted string
| String | Fret | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 3 | C |
| 4 | 2 | E |
| 3 | open | G |
| 2 | 1 | C |
| 1 | open | E |