Cm(maj7)

C1E♭♭3G5B7

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

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

5332

moderate

Fig. 3

5776

moderate

What is true of it

Cm(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 2 fingerings below is 5332: 4 fingers, held at the 2nd 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.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 4 — 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

Cm(maj7)/E♭

8b8a

third inversion

Cm(maj7)/B

4036

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

C7dominant seventh Cmaj7major seventh Cm7minor seventh Cmajor Cmminor Cdimdiminished

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