C7 chord on guitar
The C7 chord diagram on guitar, the notes it is built from, and the Alviena charts that use it.
The diagram
Songs to play with the C7 chord on guitar
- La Vie En Rose — Edith Piaf
- Ma Préférence — Julien Clerc
- We Are The Champions — Queen
- La Bohème — Charles Aznavour
- What The World Needs Now Is Love — Burt Bacharach
- Les Champs-Élysées — Joe Dassin
Which chords go with C7
Across the sheets in the catalogue, C7 most often appears alongside these chords. Learn them together and you can play a whole song.
The notes in C7
C · E · Bb
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 open string · 1 muted string
| String | Fret | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 3 | C |
| 4 | 2 | E |
| 3 | 3 | Bb |
| 2 | 1 | C |
| 1 | open | E |