How would you like to know every sus4 chord, everywhere on the guitar fretboard? It’s actually pretty easy when you look at the guitar using shapes and colors. Once you learn a shape, simply slide it up and down the neck of the guitar to achieve ANY sus4 chord. Not only that, some of the shapes actually repeat in different dimension of the fretboard.
So learn a handful of shapes, move em around and master every sus4 chord. The video shows you how.
Sus4 chords sound really cool. Smooth, bright, and airy. They have an immediately noticeable sound to them. They are used in a lot of popular songs. Many tunes go back and forth between the sus4 and major chords, sometimes with the sus2 chord also. Try adding sus4 chords to some of your musical ideas to add extra flavor and sweetness.
Start by learning Dsus4 in multiple places on the fretboard. You don’t have to learn them all at once, in fact maybe start out with one or two, then come back another day and grab a couple more shapes. Learning the shapes is the key, don’t worry too much about the note names, unless you want to.
Once you have mastered a few shapes, then it’s easy enough to move those shapes up and down the fretboard to master EVERY sus4 chord. Starting at any Dsus4 shape, move up two frets. Now you have Esus4. Move up one more fret, it’s Fsus4, two more frets for Gsus4. It’s just a matter of knowing your musical alphabet, A-G. There are sharps or flats between each letter name, except there is no sharp or flat between E and F and between B and C. So you move just one fret to get from Esus4 to Fsus4 and one fret between Bsus4 and Csus4.
D#sus4 and Ebsus4 are played exactly the same way. Starting from our good friend Dsus4 just go up one fret. You can call it whatever you like D#sus4 of Ebsus4, depending on what key you are in. The shape remains the same. Same for all the other sharps and flats, it’s just a matter of moving through the musical alphabet.
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