C♯m7

C♯1E♭3G♯5B♭7

Minor triad with a minor seventh. The same four notes as a major sixth chord a third above.

Written the other way round it is D♭m7 — 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

x42100

easy

Fig. 3

x46600

easy

Fig. 4

x42400

easy · no 5

Fig. 5

x46400

moderate · barre

Fig. 6

x42404

moderate

What is true of it

C♯m7 is C♯, E, G♯ and B — 1, b3, 5 and b7 counted from C♯.

These are also the notes of E6/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 x42100: 3 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♯m7/E

042100

second inversion

C♯m7/G♯

446400

third inversion

C♯m7/B

x22120

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♯m(maj7)minor major seventh C♯major C♯mminor C♯dimdiminished

Cm7 Dm7 D♯m7 E♭m7 Em7 Fm7 F♯m7 G♭m7 all 374