C♯m(maj7)

C♯1E♭3G♯5B♯7

Minor triad, major seventh — the tonic chord of harmonic minor.

Written the other way round it is D♭m(maj7) — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukulele on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x42110

hard

Fig. 3

x46550

hard

Fig. 4

9ba999

moderate · barre

Fig. 5

x42520

hard · no 5

Fig. 6

x42550

hard · no 5

What is true of it

C♯m(maj7) is C♯, E, G♯ and B♯ — 1, b3, 5 and 7 counted from C♯.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x42110: 4 fingers, held at the 1st fret.

None of them uses an open string, so this chord moves up the neck unchanged — the same shape 1 fret higher is the chord a semitone above.

1 of the 5 need a barre.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are C♯, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

C♯m(maj7)/E

032120

second inversion

C♯m(maj7)/G♯

446550

third inversion

C♯m(maj7)/B♯

x32120

An inversion is the same chord with a different note lowest. The name changes to a slash name because the bass is what a listener hears as the foundation.

C♯ in other shapes

C♯7dominant seventh C♯maj7major seventh C♯m7minor seventh C♯major C♯mminor C♯dimdiminished

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