C7 chord on mandolin

The C7 chord diagram on mandolin, the notes it is built from, and the Alviena charts that use it.

The diagram

Songs to play with the C7 chord on mandolin

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

Bb · E · C · G

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

StringFretNote
43Bb
32E
23C
13G

Other C chords

The same colour, on another root

C7 on other instruments