guitar chord
Cm7
Minor triad with a minor seventh. The same four notes as a major sixth chord a third above.
Every fingering that fits a hand
8a8888
moderate · barre
x35046
hard
x35343
moderate · barre
8a888x
moderate · barre
8a88b8
moderate · barre
What is true of it
Cm7 is C, E♭, G and B♭ — 1, b3, 5 and b7 counted from C.
These are also the notes of E♭6/C and D♯6/C. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.
On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.
The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 8a8888: 2 fingers, one of them barring the 8th fret, held at the 8th 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.
4 of the 5 need a barre.
Where its notes are on the neck
The brass dots are C, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.
With a different note underneath
Cm7/E♭
xx1313
Cm7/G
31101x
Cm7/B♭
x1101x
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.