Suspended Guitar Chords - How & When to Use
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Suspended chords can offer your music beautiful harmonies and interesting chord changes.
This lesson not only shows you how to play suspended chords on guitar, but also some practical ways in which you can use them in your songwriting.
By getting to know suspended 4th (sus4) and suspended 2nd (sus2) chords, you'll have more creative options than the standard major and minor chords for creating that perfect progression.
Make sure you head over to the lesson page for the full chord chart and examples of popular songs that use suspended chords...
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Didn't even know I'd been playing Dsus4 & Dsus2 all these years. Now I get it and I can move these ideas around. Thanks for the great lesson.
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Loved this lesson. I've used suspended chords a bit and now feel that I can get more mileage out of them.
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The fretjam suspended chords theory is great true genius now I can make sense of the suspend 4ths 2nds and I have less chords to learn now because learning these chords gave me a headache and the chords were hard to remember too much of them confused me but not now it is easier to understand .Good luck and all the best to u.Have u got DVDs for sale if so I am interested.
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10:04] is particularly intriguing.
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Hey nice lesson! Can you please tell me the string instrument with which you are playing the chords in the example.
+tanish pruthi It's a free VST called DSK Strings.
Does anyone know what are the chords on the outro/last seconds of the video?
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That was very informative.honestly the movement between the suspended 4th suspended 2nd and dominant seventh kind of sounded a little "backdoor"-ish to my ears. Almost like Stevie wonder's use of the major chord to major seventh chord to
dominant seventh chord
V nice
Looking at the chords at 8:30, they all have one note in common which is the D note (B string, 3rd fret).
What is the root and chord progression in Roman Numeral form for the example at 8:30?
Cadd9 / A7sus4 / Em7 / Dmaj
+Travis Hill bVI / IV / i / bVII
I think everyone can play "Yellow" right now after learning these chords
1 2 5 7 in 'C' if you switch the notes around you get a G sus4 (add 4) G B D C.
Pete Townsend uses tons of suspended chords in his playing.
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The main riff of "Message on a bottle" by The Police seems so be built up from four Sus2-Chords, isn't it?
They like their add9s as well :-)
Summer of '69 by Brian Adams uses Dsus2/D/Dsus4/D Asus2/A/Asus4/A with a swing feel.
In an Asus2, do you always use the major second? If true, why not the minor second too? thanks!
Yes sus is always 2 or 4. b2 without a 3rd would be written A(b9, no 3) or A5(b9). Just one of those weird inconsistencies with chord naming!
Because if you were to use minor second or augmented 4th, the intervals are so far from each other that they become inversions of a different chord. Essentially it would sound like a different chord. Think about it like if you had blue and added a little bit of green you'd get like a blue-green color but if you add more and more eventually you just get green-blue and eventually just green. I hope that made sense
The progression at 8:55, is the key B minor?
If so, shouldn't the C chord be a C#? However that C9sus4 sounds awesome.
What is happening here? Cheers
+Lex van der Woude Better late than never! Sorry I only just noticed your question. Yes, the key is B minor, but that C9sus4 chord is a "substitute" chord. The great thing about the more extended suspended chords is they can be used pretty much anywhere. As long as you like that jazzy/funky sound, of course.
+fretjam Hay! Thanks for the reply haha. Yeah I figured it would be some sort of substitute chord. Substitute chords always make sound really cool. I did experiment with the 9sus4 chord by changing random chords with it. Sometimes you get really nice results. Yes, I do really like jazzy/funky/blues sounds.
i don't understand the position of B9sus4, with A and G also..
can you explain?
Just barr it.lol...
or like this...make an open Cmaj chord. Hammer on the F note (D string) with your pinky.
kindda like a blues shuffle....So you're going between the 3rd and 4th...
Now...lift your middle finger ( E note/ 3rd). Shuffle between the 3rd and 2nd (open D).
If you lift your index finger....(C note) play the open B note...it'll be Cmaj7...and whatever other chord names comes up as you shuffle.lmao
Another way I noodle around with chords are to make chords...just only within the pentatonic shapes...This way I'll always harmonize if I just play the notes within the pentatonic scale.lmao
It's a reverse process of trying harmonize melodies over chords...verse harmonize chords over melodies. Hope that makes sense.
Example...if I just barr straight across the 5th fret...it's Amin7add11
If you play the notes @ the nut it's Asus4,9 b7...
the D is the 4/11. The G is the b7. The B is the 2/9
The E is the 5th
Do the sus2 chords work more on the I and IV more just because they are the maj 7 chords of the major scale?
If you're using maj7sus2 then this is the case, but I'm not entirely sure why sus2's (without the 7th) sound so natural on the 1 and 4 positions. I guess it's because sus2's sound quite "relaxed" and neutral, which complements the natural sounds of I and IV. Sus2 doesn't work so well in the V position, for example, because V demands more harmonic tension. 7sus2 works better over V for that reason.
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I notice that the chords at 9:30 would allow you to play either a major or minor scale over them.
Michael Castro Excellent observation. The absence of a 3rd means the movement from I to IV can be heard as major or minor. For example, A-D could be Amaj-Dmaj (major) or Am-Dm (natural minor).
You could also see this movement in modal terms... as ii to V (Dorian) or V to I (Mixolydian).
However, in most cases, sus2's will be relative to the I and IV of major keys, so you'll need to listen out for any other chords used in the progression that will determine the context in which the sus2's are played.
Is there a reason why it's uncommon to encounter Major7th(sus4) chord variations as opposed to the Major7th(sus2) chords?
+hendrix5757 I think the dissonance between the maj7 and sus4 makes it more difficult to find a musical place for it in progressions.
fretjam wouldn't it just form another tritone, akin to a dominant 7th chord? I was just curious if even such label exists for this particular chord arrangement...
when i was leaning guitar decades ago, i used to call sus chord James Taylor chords
Where can I go to school to learn music like this
The Guitar Institute in London (now known as the ICMP: Institute for Contemporary Musical Performance) for instance... (I did a few part-time courses and the Metal Rythms course there, and it has some of this and great teachers. Of course you can follow more intense full-time courses and degrees.).
Why is there an A# in the chord C9sus4 at 8:48? I get why there is a C, F, G, and D but what is the A# doing there too??
+LiquidSink It would be written as Bb. It's the b7 of the chord. If you see a 9 written right after the root (C in this case) it means there is both a b7 and 9 in the chord voicing. If there is a 7 written after the root it means there is just a b7.
+fretjam Ah ok got it. Thanks bud
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sus2 in a very beginning of Skyfall by Adele
+Varmontion You have a very good ear for picking out that major 2nd/9th, but I can just about hear a minor 3rd in that opening chord which gives it that tragic quality. Sus2 chords sound more neutral and open because they lack that major/minor 3rd.
So, now what's the difference between sus2 and add9 ? Don't they sound the same?!
add9 has a major 3rd.
sus2 = 1 2 5 (or 1 5 9)
add9 = 1 3 5 9
Oh, thank you.
Is it the same matter for maj7sus2 and maj9 ?
Dongky SP Exactly...
maj7sus2 = 1 2 5 7 (or 1 5 7 9)
maj9 = 1 3 5 7 9
Thank you so much..
Now it's very clear for me.
Dongky SP You're welcome! Glad I could help.
Dsus4 in this particular pink floyd song i can't seem to remember.
They use sus chords in several songs but I know Pigs on the Wing Part 1 has a Dsus4.
it's in Goodbye Blue Sky and Bike
For practical use of a sus4 chord, you can also check out any live version of Steve Vai's "Whispering A Prayer", a very soulful song. In the intro you can clearly hear the Isus4-I progression played on keyboards.
4:10 "How to play Yellow by Coldplay"
Why would people not like this. Could it be because there isn't a flashy guitar to ogle over.
Iron Maiden - prodigal son uses this.
Well spotted. Love that song.
fretjam.com 10cc - I'm Not In Love, sounds like it has that 9sus4 in it.
Cephlin Yes, you have an excellent ear. A very beautiful use of these chords.
Guitar part starts at 2:52
Oasis chords. lol