C major has no sharps or flats, so it is where the piano starts and where most chord charts are written first. Its seven chords are C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am and B°, and three of them, C, F and G, carry most songs on their own. A minor is the relative minor with the same notes; C minor is the parallel minor for a darker verse. Because everything is white keys, C major is the key to learn a progression in before moving it anywhere else.
The chords of C major
Seven chords, one on each note of the scale, all on the white keys. The three major ones, C, F and G, carry most songs.
C is sounding: C, E and G.
C major
A minor
Make your own in C major
The generator, set to C major. Lock the chords you like, generate the rest, then download it as MIDI.
Chord names with spaces, up to 16.
More in and around C major
- C major: scale, chords and key signature
- A minor chord progressions, its relative minor
- C minor chord progressions, its parallel minor
- Major chord progressions
- The I–V–vi–IV progression
- The I–IV–V progression
- The ii–V–I progression
- Move these chords to another key: the chord transposer
- Which key is your song in? The key finder
Piano sounds by the Salamander Grand Piano (Alexander Holm), CC BY 3.0.
