Guitar UpscaleMinor 7th Chord (m7) on guitar
A minor 7th chord adds the flat seventh to a minor triad, a smooth minor sound used in funk, soul and jazz.
| Written as | Cm7 |
|---|---|
| Formula | 1 b3 5 b7 |
| Notes in Cm7 | C Eb G Bb |
| Semitones from the root | 0, 3, 7, 10 |
About the Minor 7th Chord
Am7 is A, C, E and G. In a major key the ii, iii and vi chords are minor 7th chords.
It sounds softer than a plain minor chord. Funk players vamp on one m7 chord for a whole song.
The ii chord of a ii to V to I, such as Dm7 to G7 to Cmaj7, is a minor 7th chord.
Intervals
- 1: Root, 0 semitones above the root
- b3: Minor 3rd, 3 semitones above the root
- 5: Perfect 5th, 7 semitones above the root
- b7: Minor 7th, 10 semitones above the root
Minor 7th Chord charts in all 12 keys
Each chart shows the strings from the thick low E on the left to the thin high e on the right. Numbers in the dots are fingers: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 little, T thumb. × marks a muted string and ○ an open one. A bar across strings is a barre.
Cm7: C Eb G Bb
Gm7: G Bb D F
Dm7: D F A C
Am7: A C E G
Em7: E G B D
Bm7: B D F# A
F#m7: F# A C# E
C#m7: C# E G# B
G#m7: G# B D# F#
Ebm7: Eb Gb Bb Db
Bbm7: Bb Db F Ab
Fm7: F Ab C Eb
Scales to play over Cm7
Each of these scales, started on the root of Cm7, holds every note of the chord:
- C Natural Minor scale
- C Phrygian Mode
- C Locrian with a Natural Fifth scale
- C Harmonic Minor Bebop scale
- C Harmonic Minor Bebop with a Raised Fourth scale
- C Dorian Mode
- C Minor Pentatonic scale
- C Aeolian + Phrygian scale
- C Aeolian + Dorian scale
- C Adonai Malakh scale
- C Romanian Minor scale
- C Hungarian Major scale
- C Narayan Scale
- C Pelog 2 scale
- C Javanese scale
- C Moorish Phrygian scale
- C Blues Scale
- C Blues Scale with a Major Seventh
- C Blues Scale with Both Thirds
- C Chromatic Blues Scale
- C Mixo-Blues Scale
- C Bebop Minor scale
- C Diminished scale
- C Ten Tone Dominant scale
- C Ten Tone Harmonic scale
- C Ten Tone Minor scale