C♯

C♯1E♯3G♯5

A major third and a perfect fifth over the root.

Written the other way round it is D♭ — 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

6544

moderate

Fig. 3

654x

easy

Fig. 4

6898

hard

Fig. 5

x114

moderate · barre · no 5

What is true of it

C♯ is C♯, E♯ and G♯ — 1, 3 and 5 counted from C♯.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 3, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 4 fingerings below is 6544: 4 fingers, held at the 4th 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 4 need a barre.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 6 — 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♯/E♯

x544

second inversion

C♯/G♯

111x

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♯mminor C♯dimdiminished C♯augaugmented C♯5power chord C♯sus2suspended second C♯sus4suspended fourth

C D D♯E♭E F F♯G♭all 374