C# major triad for guitar (C#)

Notes, positions, and inversions of the C# major triad (C#) on the guitar fretboard: C# · F · G#.

Instrument

Root

Chord

Position (CAGED)

Strings

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Frets15

1224

Chord

C#FG#

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Legend

Root

· R

Third

· 3

Fifth

· 5

Inversions

(strings 1·2·3)

Root position

fret 5

1st inversion

fret 10

2nd inversion

fret 2

See the C# arpeggio →

C# major

The C# major triad is made up of three notes: C# · F · G#.

It's the most consonant, stable triad -- the backbone of most pop, rock, and folk music. It often functions as the tonic chord, the point of arrival a progression resolves to.

See C# major on the circle of fifths