Dsus4 Guitar Chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is Dsus4. Dsus4 is used lots to add interest to D major chords. This sus4 chord is really easy to play, start with a regular D major chord and add your little finger to the 4rd fret of the top E string.

Although it might look easier to play this chord with your first three fingers, don't. 99.99% of the time this chord is played together with a regular D major chord, using your little finger on the 3rd fret makes this change really easy.

Sus4 chords are so called, because they 3rd of the chord is replaced by the 4th. This gives a suspended sound as our ear is expecting the 4th to resolve to the 3rd.

Sus4 chords use the degrees from the major scale: 1, 4, 5
The Dsus4 chord uses these notes: D, G, A

This Dsus4 guitar chord is used in thousands of songs:

• More Than A Feeling Boston
• Just Give Me A Reason Pink
• What It Takes Aerosmith
• Wonderwall Oasis
• and many more...

Try adding sus4 chords as embellishments to major chords next time you play your favourite song and tune back soon for another Guitar Chord of the Day.

Esus4 Guitar Chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is Esus4. The 'sus' in sus4 chords refers to the 4th being suspended, ready to resolve to the 3rd.

The Esus4 Guitar Chord is very easy to play, simply add your little finger to the 2nd fret of the G string when playing an open Emajor chord.

Sus 4 chords can be used to decorate regular major chords so try adding in a suspended 4th when you're playing a standard major chord.

Sus4 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 4, 5
Esus4 uses these notes: E, A, B

Check out other sus4 guitar chords here and tune back soon for another guitar chord of the day.
string when playing an open Emajor chord.

Bsus4 Guitar Chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is Bsus4. Sus4 chords are usually played just before a regular major chord, they have an unresolved 'hanging' sound, hence the suspended name.
This guitar fingering for the Bsus4 chord involves playing a regular B major barre chord and slipping your finger up one fret to the 5th fret.

The root note of this chord is on the A string, you can move this chord to other frets to create other sus4 chords:

• 1st fret A#/Bb
• 2nd fret B
• 3rd fret C
• 4th fret C#/Db
• 5th fret D
• 6th fret D#/Eb
• 7th fret E
• 8th fret F
• 9th fret F#/Gb
• 10th fret G
• 11th fret G#/Ab
• 12th fret A

Check out these other sus4 guitar chords and tune back soon for another Guitar Chord of the Day.

Gsus4 Guitar Chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day, is Gsus4. Suspended 4th chords are usually used to embellish major chords.

This fingering of Gsus4 can be played together with an open G major chord with the right fingering.
Although you can use any fingering, as this is usually played together with an open G major chord it's best to use your little finger on the top E string

Sus4 chords use these notes from the major scale: 1, 4, 5
Gsus4 uses these notes: G, C, D


Try adding in a sus4 as an embellishment to the open G major chord and check out other suspended guitar chords here.

Frank Gambale Magic Chords 2

Continuing our look at Frank Gambale's "Magic Chords", today introduces another inversion of the Magic Chord constructed from intervals 1, 2 and 5 or C, D and G if we're in C.

Here's the fingering for this guitar chord:

As with yesterday's inversion, today's Chord of the Day can be considered in many different ways.

C, D, G
Csus2 (1, 2, 5)
D11(b7, 1, 11)
Ebmajor 13 (13, 7, 3)
F69 (5, 6, 9)
Gsus4 (4, 5, 1)
Abmaj7#11 (3, #11, 7)
Am11 (b3, 11, b7)
Bb69 (9, 3, 6)

We can use our one Magic Chord in place of 8 different chords all with the same fingering in the same position.

The chord can function as:
C, D, F, Bb and G dominant 7th chords
C, Eb, F, Bb, Ab, G major7th chords
C, A, D, G, F minor 7th chords
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Alternatively we could play this chord in several different positions and still have it function in the same way. For example, we could play this inversion in the following positions and it would work as a Cmajor7:
2nd position (B, E, A, E, A) - C major 13
5th position (D, G, C, G, C) - C add9
7th position (E, A, D, A, D) -C69
9th position (F#, B, D, B, E) - Cmajor7#11
10th position (G, C, F, C, F) - Csus4
12th position (A, D, G, D, G) - C69

Try playing through some songs you know and dropping in today's Frank Gambale Magic Chord and yesterday's Magic Chord in place of some other inversions you might use and tune in tomorrow for another Guitar Chord of the Day.
 

Frank Gambale 'Magic Chords' 1

Some years ago, guitarist Frank Gambale had a regular monthly column in Guitar Player magazine. Some of his monthly columns looked at what he described as Magic Chords. These are advanced guitar chords that are constructed differently to regular triads and are therefore a little ambiguous. The good thing about this is that we can use this chords in several different contexts.

The first Magic Chord is constructed from intervals 1, 2 and 5 or C, D and G if we're in C. We might think of this as being a Csus2 chord:  

Here's the fingering for this guitar chord:

It's not necessary or sometimes even possible to play all of the notes in a chord, so we can also think of this same chord in the same position in several different ways. Here are some examples of how we could use this same chord - the intervals we're using from the chord are after the chord symbol:

C, D, G
Csus2 (1, 2, 5)
D11(b7, 1, 11)
Ebmajor 13 (13, 7, 3)
F69 (5, 6, 9)
Gsus4 (4, 5, 1)
Abmaj7#11 (3, #11, 7)
Am11 (b3, 11, b7)
Bb69 (9, 3, 6)

We can use our one Magic Chord in place of 8 different chords all with the same fingering in the same position.

The chord can function as:
C, D, F, Bb and G dominant 7th chords
C, Eb, F, Bb, Ab, G major7th chords
C, A, D, G, F minor 7th chords

That's a lot of possible uses for one chord. Try using this magic chord in some of the songs you usually play and tune in tomorrow for another Guitar Chord of the Day.   

E13 sus4 Guitar Chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is E13 sus4 or simply E13sus. This chord is similar to the regular dominant 13th guitar chords we've played before with the 3rd replaced by the 4th.
13 sus guitar chords use these notes: 1, 4, 5, b7, 9, 13

E13 sus chords use these notes: E, A, B, D, F#, C#
Our guitar chord of the day uses the notes in this order: E, A, D, F#, C#.

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