What notes are in a Fmaj7 chord?

Fmaj7 (Major 7th) is built from F, A, C, E — the formula R - 3 - 5 - 7 from the root.

Fmaj7 Chord (Major 7th)

Major 7th stacks a major triad with a major 7th on top — root, 3rd, 5th, major 7th. The notes of Fmaj7 are F, A, C, E.

Lush, dreamy, unresolved-but-comfortable — the chord of bossa nova, soul ballads, and jazz voicings that want to float rather than land.

Every playable, root-in-the-bass grip standard tuning offers, computed from the chord’s own formula — not a fixed shape library.

Fret 1

Fret 3

Fret 5

Fret 8

Fret 10

Compare it against plain major on the same root: the major 7th adds shimmer without adding tension the way a dominant 7th would.

R - 3 - 5 - 7 — 4 notes.

Every scale below contains all of this chord’s notes — safe territory to improvise in over it.