C5 chord on guitar
The C5 chord diagram on guitar, the notes it is built from, and the Alviena charts that use it.
The diagram
Songs to play with the C5 chord on guitar
- 21 Guns — Green Day
- Uptown Funk — Mark Ronson
- Les Demons De Minuit — Images
Which chords go with C5
Across the sheets in the catalogue, C5 most often appears alongside these chords. Learn them together and you can play a whole song.
The notes in C5
C · G
The chord is built from 2 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
3 muted strings · Shape starting at fret 2
| String | Fret | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 3 | C |
| 4 | 5 | G |
| 3 | 5 | C |