How To Play The C Major Chord On Guitar - C-Major Guitar Chord Tutorial

Welcome to my "How To Play The C Major Chord On Guitar -- C Major Guitar Chord Tutorial". This one is what is commonly considered to be a typical beginner guitar chord. As with many other guitar chord, the C-maj Chord can be played in several different ways. What we cover in today's tutorial though is the most commonly used approach. You might have already heard of the open C-Major guitar chord -- well, that's exactly what we will be learning today.

Just to give you a little bit of background. This chord appears in music literature as well as in online resources described with a number of abbreviations. Below I listed the ones that you will likely find in guitar books, tabulatures or other media:

C Major, Cmaj, C-Major, or just C Chord. They all mean the same but I thought I let you know to avoid some confusion. Alright, below is some more background information as well as specific instructions on how to play this easy C-Major guitar chord, taken right out of an actual guitar lesson:

Okay. The next chord we're going to learn is C major, and C major is kind of a stretchy chord. It's one of those chords that you know, some people's hands just aren't built for, and so you've got your first finger here -- your index here -- in the 1st fret on the 2nd string, and then you've got your middle finger on the 4th string on the 2nd fret, and then you've got your ring finger on the 5th string, on the 3rd fret.
And what you want to do is just go through and make sure they're all coming out, but you want to also be able to press down. So this is one where you have to stretch and push down hard at the same time, and that's kind of a hard combination for somebody that's just starting. If you can't do it, I've got another series that simplifies all these chords down to about 3 notes -- their called triads -- and you can kind of work on those until you get up to speed, and then come back to it and see if you can knock it out later.
But this chord here is C major, and as you see per the diagram, the bottom string -- the 6th string, this one -- is off limits, don't touch that. And then just go ahead and start on the bottom and work your way -- strum your way to the top -- the bottom being of course, here, and then going this way -- that's how I think about it.

So here we go -- C major. And just do a string check. Make sure all the notes are coming out and if they are, you've passed the test. If they're not, you still pass the test, it's just going to take you a little longer.

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