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CmMaj9 guitar chord

General3 Inversions4 Shell3 Drop 23 Drop 32 Rootless13 Open string5

InversionAll Root positionC1 1st inversionEb1 3rd inversionB1

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About CmMaj9 — root position

CmMaj9 is C, Eb, G, B and D. It keeps every note of and adds the .

CmMaj9 and both contain the 9th. The difference is the 7th: CmMaj9 uses , while uses the flat 7th.

Choose between them by the seventh under a held 9th. The minor 3rd remains in both chords.

Also written CmM9, Cm(maj9) or C-Δ9.

CmMaj9 root position guitar chord diagram: C, Eb, G, B, D, played x3143x — CmMaj9 root position guitar chord voicing: x-3-1-4-3-x.

What root position means

CmMaj9 in root position puts C in the bass, which is the chord as it is spelled: the note it is named after underneath everything else.

5 of CmMaj9’s 9 shapes do this:x30443x3143x86x70886x7878697xx

How to use CmMaj9

How you get to it. The turn that lands on CmMaj9 is to : the ii and the V of C minor, which is where a minor tonic is usually arrived at rather than simply begun on.

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What to play over CmMaj9

Useful scales

C harmonic minor scale
+FAb
Contains CmMaj9 and adds eleventh and flat thirteenth.
C melodic minor scale
+FA
Contains CmMaj9 and adds eleventh and thirteenth.

Every scale

Chords near CmMaj9

Change one note

Eb → E
Raise the minor third to the major third.
See Cmaj9 chord →
B → A
Replace the major seventh with the sixth.
See Cm69 chord →
open strings
open strings
B → Bb
Lower the major seventh to the flat seventh.
See Cm9 chord →

Add a note

+ F
Add the eleventh.
See CmMaj11 chord →

Minor chords on every root

The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in how this site is built.