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Guitar chord
C♯m Chord
C♯m 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 C♯m chord anywhere on the neck is some arrangement of these 3 notes.
C♯1
E♭3
G♯5
How to play it
3 shapes, low on the neck to high. Tap any diagram to hear it. Green marks the root.