Guitar chord reference
Minor 7 guitar chord: five CAGED shapes
A minor seventh chord adds a flattened 7th to a minor triad. The result supports minor-key harmony, Dorian sounds and compact movable voicings throughout the neck.
Chord construction and function
The ♭3 defines minor and the ♭7 softens the chord’s resolution. Treat those two guide tones as anchors when a full CAGED form is too large to use musically.
- Chord formula
- 1 · ♭3 · 5 · ♭7
- Notes in Cm7
- C · E♭ · G · B♭
Cm7 in CAGED neck order
Root notes are highlighted. Read each movable voicing as a set of chord tones, not simply as a copied open shape.
C shape
A shape
G shape
E shape
D shape
Practice drill
Arpeggiate 1–♭3–5–♭7 in every shape, then reduce each voicing to its nearest ♭3 and ♭7. Connect the reduced shapes before restoring the full chords.
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