Cmaj11 guitar chord
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About Cmaj11 — drop 2 voicings
Cmaj11 is C, E, G, B, D and F. Its natural is the same note name as the 4th, while the major 3rd remains.
In a close voicing, sits one fret above . A sharp 11th raises that note one more fret; Cmaj11 calls for the natural 11th.
Let both notes sound only when you want that close interval heard. For the sharp 11th instead, played without a 5th, the chord is .
Also written CM11, CΔ11 or C major 11.
What is drop 2
Stack the four notes closely, then drop the second voice from the top an octave. It typically lands on four adjacent strings: the guitar’s workhorse voicing.
That result, 5–R–3–7, is the shape usually meant by drop 2. Named by its bass note, as the inversions are here, it is the 2nd inversion.
How to use Cmaj11
How you get to it. The turn that lands on Cmaj11 is to — the ii and the V of C — and shares its third and seventh with , so the hand barely moves between them.
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In which keys. Every note of Cmaj11 belongs to C major (the I, the tonic) and A minor (the ♭III).
What to play over Cmaj11
Useful scales
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Contains Cmaj11 and adds thirteenth.
Chords near Cmaj11
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