Cmaj7 chord on guitar
The Cmaj7 chord diagram on guitar, the notes it is built from, and the Alviena charts that use it.
The diagram
Songs to play with the Cmaj7 chord on guitar
- Zombie — The Cranberries
- Numb — Linkin Park
- Celebration — Kool & The Gang
- Fly Me To The Moon — Frank Sinatra
- Melodrama — Theodora
- Crazy — Gnarls Barkley
- Imagine — John Lennon
- Radioactive — Imagine Dragons
- Just The Two Of Us — Bill Withers
- Fast Car — Tracy Chapman
- Balance Ton Quoi — Angèle
- La Solassitude — Stromae
Which chords go with Cmaj7
Across the sheets in the catalogue, Cmaj7 most often appears alongside these chords. Learn them together and you can play a whole song.
The notes in Cmaj7
C · E · G · B
The chord is built from 4 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 open strings · 1 muted string
| String | Fret | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 3 | C |
| 4 | 2 | E |
| 3 | open | G |
| 2 | open | B |
| 1 | open | E |