Suspended chords.

Today, I will be talking about suspended chords. Suspended Chords have a unique sound. The sound is different from a major chord or a minor chord. As we all know that a major chord sounds happy and and minor chord sounds sad.

There are two kinds of suspended chords that we should remember. They are suspended 2nd or suspended 4th. The are also called "sus2" and "sus4".

It would be good for you, if you can remember, these following chord formulas:

Suspended 2nd - 1 2 5
Suspended 4th - 1 4 5

As you will notice from the above formulas, there is no third and it has been substituted by a second or fourth.

Third means the third note of the scale and fourth means fourth note of a given diatonic scale.

The above chords are seen in lot of rock songs. It's also used in the famous Summer of 69 song by Bryan Adams.

I will list the C sus4 and Csus2 chord below:

Csus4

e--1---------------
b--1---------------
g------------------
d------------3-----
a------------3-----
e------------------

The above chord is part of chord progression used in the hit song November Rain By Guns N roses.

C sus2

e-x-----------------
b--1----------------
g------------------
d------------------
a----------3--------
e-x-----------------

x means these strings should not be played.

You can try to figure out other suspended chords by yourself and if you have a question, you are always welcome to post a comment.