A Sus4 Guitar Chord: Fretboard Charts & Variations
Chord Description
This chord is composed of the Root, Perfect Fourth, and Perfect Fifth
The Asus4 chord is spelled in the following ways:
- A Suspended Fourth
- Asus4
The notes of the A Suspended Fourth chord are A, D, and E. This chord is called suspended, because it does not have the 3rd.
Suspended chords do not have the 3rd degree, so they are neither major nor minor.
Notes that compose the A sus4 chord:
ADE
Chord Structure:
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How To Play The Asus4 chord on guitar
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Position 1
Open
Position 2
BarreOpen
Position 3
BarreOpen
Position 4
BarreOpen
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Use Fretboard Maps To Build Chords Along All The Fretboard
How to create your own A sus4 chord fingerings
You can create any fingering you like on any part of the fretboard, just play some of the chord tones shown in the map below. Some shapes will sound good, some less, let your ears decide!
These maps show you the tones in a chord all along the fretboard. They are incredibly helpful because allow you to:
- Create new voicings on the fly, across all the neck
- Improvise targeting the right notes
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