C♯maj7

C♯1E♯3G♯5B♯7

Major triad with a major seventh: a half step below the root, an octave up.

Written the other way round it is D♭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

6543

hard

Fig. 3

6888

hard

Fig. 4

x113

moderate · barre · no 5

Fig. 5

6588

hard · no 5

Fig. 6

658x

easy · no 5

What is true of it

C♯maj7 is C♯, E♯, G♯ and B♯ — 1, 3, 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 6543: 4 fingers, held at the 3rd 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.

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♯maj7/E♯

ac9b

second inversion

C♯maj7/G♯

1014

third inversion

C♯maj7/B♯

x014

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♯m7minor seventh C♯m(maj7)minor major seventh C♯major C♯mminor C♯dimdiminished

Cmaj7 Dmaj7 D♯maj7 E♭maj7 Emaj7 Fmaj7 F♯maj7 G♭maj7 all 374