C Minor Backing Tracks

Chords, scale and pentatonic box for C minor, and 3 styles with a chart in this key.

Open the app in C

The C minor scale

C natural minor. Relative major: Eb major, the same notes starting elsewhere.

CDEbFGAbBb

Chords in C Minor

Seventh chords built on each scale degree, plus the dominant V7 borrowed from harmonic minor that pulls back to Cm.

  1. i7 Cm7
  2. iiø7 Dm7b5
  3. bIIImaj7 Ebmaj7
  4. iv7 Fm7
  5. v7 Gm7
  6. bVImaj7 Abmaj7
  7. bVII7 Bb7
  8. V7 · harmonic minor V7 G7

C minor pentatonic box

C Minor Pentatonic: C Eb F G Bb
Stringfret 7fret 8fret 9fret 10fret 11
e CEb
B GBb
G EbF
D BbC
A FG
E CEb
Root on the 6th string at fret 8, on the 5th string at fret 3. Highlighted notes are C.

3 styles in C Minor

Each page has a full chord chart in C minor, scale positions, drills and an app link with the key and tempo filled in.

Other keys

C MajorD MajorD MinorE MajorE MinorF MajorG MajorG MinorA MajorA MinorBb MajorB Minor

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