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▶ Open in the Songwright editorNotes: C# G#
Mood: Powerful, raw
The C#5 chord (C# power chord) is a bare root-and-fifth chord, the backbone of rock and metal. It contains the notes C# G#.
It's built from the root C# using these intervals (semitones from the root): 0, 7.
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