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 guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

6004

easy · no 5

Fig. 3

6003

easy · no 5

Fig. 4

x103

open · no 5

Fig. 5

6047

easy

Fig. 6

6403

easy · 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 6004: 2 fingers, held at the 4th fret.

1 of them use open strings, which is what makes a shape quiet to change to.

It leaves out the 5. 4 strings cannot carry 4 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

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

9c9b

second inversion

C♯m(maj7)/G♯

1004

third inversion

C♯m(maj7)/B♯

x004

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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