Cmaj13 guitar chord
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About Cmaj13 — inversions voicings
Cmaj13 is C, E, G, B, D and A — with the thirteenth on top, and the eleventh left out.
It sounds full and wide open. Everything the major scale offers except the eleventh, which is left out because it fights the third.
Tonic — the major sound with most of the scale showing.
Also written CM13, CΔ13 or C major 13.
What an inversion is
How to use Cmaj13
How you get to it. The turn that lands on Cmaj13 is to — the ii and the V of C — and shares its third and seventh with , so the hand barely moves between them.
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In which keys. Every note of Cmaj13 belongs to C major (the I, the tonic), E minor (the ♭VI), G major (the IV, the subdominant) and A minor (the ♭III).
What to play over Cmaj13
Every note of Cmaj13 is in C major and C lydian.
Each of those is a page: the scale across the neck, and the chords it harmonises into — which is where Cmaj13 sits in it. Every scale.
Chords near Cmaj13
Change one note of Cmaj13 and you have (drop the thirteenth), (the thirteenth becomes the eleventh), (drop the major seventh) or (the major seventh becomes the flat seventh).
Cmaj13 is a major chord — root, major third, fifth. Major chords on every root.
The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in how this site is built.