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The C major is a common chord partly because of the appeal of "middle C" in piano theory. It's also a strange chord on the guitar because it does not use all of the strings. As a major chord, it uses three notes: the first or "base" note C, the third note, E, and the fifth, G. Here is how to build the most common form of "open" C major.