Caug7: guitar chord voicings, inversions, scales and arpeggios
Caug7 (Aug7) is an interactive GuitarArcanum page with chord formula, intervals, voicings, inversions, triads, pentatonic patterns, scales and arpeggios on the fretboard.
Chord formula
Interval formula: 1 3 #5 b7. A dominant 7th with a sharp 5th (7#5). A tense, whole-tone dominant with a strong upward pull.
Chord tones
The 3rd–b7 tritone keeps the dominant pull, and the sharp 5th adds whole-tone tension and pulls upward. Don't play a perfect 5th alongside it.
Sound character
Tense, lifted and whole-tone — a charged dominant.
Harmonic function
An altered dominant. The sharp 5th strengthens the motion, often toward a minor or major target.
Typical progressions
- G7#5 → C
- Dm7 – G7#5 – Cmaj7
- C – E7#5 – Am
Guitar voicing advice
Use a #5 instead of the 5th, ideally as the top voice. No perfect 5th needed.
Compatible scales for Caug7
Open interactive scale pages that naturally pair with this chord.
Other chord qualities on the C root
Compare this chord with other qualities sharing the same root.
- C (Major)
- Cm (Minor)
- Cdim (Diminished)
- Caug (Augmented)
- Csus4 (Sus4)
- C6 (Maj6)
- Cmaj7 (Major 7)
- Cmaj7b5 (Maj7b5)
- Cmaj7sus4 (Maj7sus4)
- Cmaj7#11 (Maj7#11)
- Cm6 (Min6)
- Cm7 (Minor 7)
- Cmmaj7 (MinMaj7)
- C7 (Dominant 7)
- C7b5 (Dom7b5)
- C7sus4 (Dom7sus4)
- C7#11 (Dom7#11)
- Cm7b5 (m7b5)
- Cdim7 (Dim7)
- Cdimmaj7 (DimMaj7)
- Cdimmaj7b13 (DimMaj7b13)
- Caugmaj7 (AugMaj7)
- C9 (9)
- Cmaj9 (maj9)
- Cm9 (m9)
- Cadd9 (add9)
- C7b9 (7b9)
- C7#9 (7#9)
- C6/9 (6/9)
- Cm6/9 (m6/9)
- Cmmaj9 (m(maj9))
- C9sus4 (9sus4)
- C9b5 (9b5)
- C9#5 (9#5)
- Cmadd9 (madd9)
- C7b9#9 (7b9#9)
- Csus2 (sus2)
- C11 (11)
- Cmaj11 (maj11)
- Cm11 (m11)
- C13 (13)
- Cmaj13 (maj13)
- Cm13 (m13)
- C7b13 (7b13)
- C13#11 (13#11)
- C7alt (7alt)