Cmaj7sus4: guitar chord voicings, inversions, scales and arpeggios
Cmaj7sus4 (Maj7sus4) 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 4 5 7. A major 7th with a 4th in place of the 3rd. An open, floating sound with no quality, but a gentle 7th tension on top.
Chord tones
The 4th replaces the 3rd, so there's no quality. The major 7th adds a mild tension on top, without any bite.
Sound character
Open, airy and calm — common in ambient and modern pop.
Harmonic function
Tonic color or a suspension. Often it just hangs as an atmospheric chord.
Typical progressions
- Cmaj7sus4 – Cmaj7
- Cmaj7sus4 (vamp)
- Gmaj7sus4 – Cmaj7
Guitar voicing advice
Leave out the 3rd. The 4th, 5th and 7th give the open sound; it sits well on the 5th and 4th strings.
Compatible scales for Cmaj7sus4
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)
- 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)
- Caug7 (Aug7)
- 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)