Banjo Cmaj7 chord (C Tuning)C major seventh on the 5-string banjo: 0 0 0 2, and 6 more shapes

Cmaj7 chord chart for 5-string banjo in C Tuning tuning: 0 0 0 2, open position, with the short 5th string marked
Cmaj7 (C major seventh) on the 5-string banjo, C Tuning: 0 0 0 2, string 4 to string 1. Fingers are numbered on the dots; copper marks the root; the green ring on the left is the 5th string, solid when it’s in the chord.

Frets, string 4 to string 1: 0 0 0 2 (open position)

  1. String 4 (C): open, C
  2. String 3 (G): open, G
  3. String 2 (B): open, B
  4. String 1 (D): 2nd fret, index finger, E
  5. String 5, the short g: open, G, in the chord

Sounds: C G B E  ·  Cmaj7 is C, E, G, B (1 · 3 · 5 · 7)

The 5th string: the short g is the 5th of Cmaj7, so let it ring.

C Tuning tuning: gCGBD, the short 5th string first, then strings 4 to 1.

Hear it in the app ›

The link can’t set the tuning: the app starts in open G. Choose C Tuning once in its Settings and it remembers.

More Cmaj7 shapes

  1. 31gCBBE0 4 0 2
    open
  2. 412gCBCE0 4 1 2
    open
  3. 3412gEBCE4 4 1 2
    at the nut
  4. 123gCBEG0 4 5 5
    open
  5. 8fr213gCEGB0 9 8 9
    8fr
  6. 12fr123gCGBE12 0 12 14
    12fr

Other C chords in C Tuning

CCmC7Cm7Cmaj7C6Csus4Csus2CdimCaug

Other major seventh chords

Gmaj7Amaj7Dmaj7Cmaj7Bmaj7Emaj7Fmaj7B♭maj7

Cmaj7 in other tunings

Open GDouble CSawmillOpen D

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