Fig. 1 — nothing to hold

guitar chord

C5

C1G5

Root and fifth, no third at all — neither major nor minor, which is the point.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

What is true of it

C5 is C and G — 1 and 5 counted from C.

No fingering of C5 fits a hand on the guitar: inside four frets, with the strings that sound next to each other and the root underneath, there is nothing to hold.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 2 — 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

C5/G

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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

CmajorCmminorCdimdiminished

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