Guitar UpscaleMinor Major 7th Chord (mMaj7) on guitar
A minor major 7th chord is a minor triad with a major seventh, a dark, mysterious sound from film and jazz.
| Written as | CmMaj7 |
|---|---|
| Formula | 1 b3 5 7 |
| Notes in C | C Eb G B |
| Semitones from the root | 0, 3, 7, 11 |
About the Minor Major 7th Chord
AmMaj7 is A, C, E and G#. It is the 7th chord on the root of harmonic minor and melodic minor.
It often shows up in a falling line: Am, AmMaj7, Am7, Am6, the top note moving down a fret at a time.
Melodic minor is the scale to solo over it.
Intervals
- 1: Root, 0 semitones above the root
- b3: Minor 3rd, 3 semitones above the root
- 5: Perfect 5th, 7 semitones above the root
- 7: Major 7th, 11 semitones above the root
Minor Major 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.
CmMaj7: C Eb G B
GmMaj7: G Bb D F#
DmMaj7: D F A C#
AmMaj7: A C E G#
EmMaj7: E G B D#
BmMaj7: B D F# A#
F#mMaj7: F# A C# E#
C#mMaj7: C# E G# B#
G#mMaj7: G# B D# G
EbmMaj7: Eb Gb Bb D
BbmMaj7: Bb Db F A
FmMaj7: F Ab C E
Scales to play over CmMaj7
Each of these scales, started on C, holds every note of the chord:
- C Harmonic Minor
- C Harmonic Minor Bebop
- C Harmonic Minor Bebop with a Raised Fourth
- C Melodic Minor
- C Romanian Scale
- C Hungarian Minor (Gypsy Minor)
- C Neapolitan Minor
- C Neapolitan Major
- C Algerian Scale
- C Moorish Phrygian
- C Blues Scale with a Major Seventh
- C Blues Scale with Both Thirds
- C Chromatic Blues Scale
- C Bebop Half Diminished
- C Augmented Scale
- C Nine Tone Scale
- C Lydian Diminished
- C Lydian #2