C7 Guitar Chord

A tense chord that "wants" to resolve up a fourth. Essential for blues, jazz, rock'n'roll and funk. The added minor seventh creates characteristic tension.

Guitar

Strings X–3–2–3–1–0

How to play the C7 chord on guitar

Read the string pattern X–3–2–3–1–0 from the low E string to the high E string. Numbers in the pattern are frets; numbers in the colored dots are left-hand fingers. X means a muted string and 0 means an open string.

6th string (low E) Muted

5th string (A) Fret 3 · ring finger

4th string (D) Fret 2 · middle finger

3rd string (G) Fret 3 · pinky

2nd string (B) Fret 1 · index finger

1st string (high E) Open