C Major Chord on Guitalele
Play C Major on Guitalele: diagrams, finger positions, intervals, and every voicing up and down the neck for this instrument.
The C Major chord is a bright, stable major triad — one of the first chords most players learn. It is built from the notes C, E, G. This page shows how to play C Major on Guitalele with clear fretboard diagrams and suggested finger positions.
The G, C and E strings ring open in the lowest shape, with the remaining notes fretted at fret 2 over a 2-fret stretch. C falls on the A string. It sounds from C3 up to C5.
Guitalele is tuned A–D–G–C–E–A, with 15 frets to work with. Guitar shapes work unchanged on guitalele — finger them exactly as charted; every shape sounds a perfect fourth higher than on guitar.
Browse alternate voicings to find the one that sits best under your fingers, then compare it with the other chord types built on C or explore the same shape in nearby keys. The diagrams list the notes in each voicing so you can connect the shape to the theory behind it.