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Guitar chord
Cm Chord
Cm is a minor chord rooted on C. Major with the third lowered a semitone. That one note is the whole difference between happy and sad.
The notes
Every Cm chord anywhere on the neck is some arrangement of these 3 notes.
C1
E♭♭3
G5
How to play it
3 shapes, low on the neck to high. Tap any diagram to hear it. Green marks the root.