C7#5 Guitar Chord

How to play C7#5: a dominant 7th sharp 5 built on C, with 4 voicings, the notes, and the intervals.

Chord Diagrams

XX
A common voicing
8XX
Voicing 2
10XX
Voicing 3
XX
Voicing 4

The first diagram is a common voicing: played at the first few frets. An X above a string means don't play it; an O means play it open.

C7#5 and C7aug are two names for the same chord, so the fingerings are identical. See C7aug for the other name.

Notes & Intervals in C7#5

NoteCEG#Bb
IntervalR3#5b7

C7#5 is a dominant 7th sharp 5 with C as its root. The full theoretical spelling is C, E, G#, Bb. This voicing sounds every chord tone.

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