Meaning Of Sus Chords
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Meaning of sus chords. The gsus4 and gsus2 are three note chords. F is the 3rd. A sus chord sets up a feeling of tension that leaves the listener waiting to hear a resolution.
The lack of a minor or a major third in the chord creates an open sound while the dissonance between the fourth and fifth or second and root creates tension. In these chords the third the second note in the chord are being replaced with either a major second an interval consisting of two semitones or a perfect four an interval consisting of five semitones. The c sus 4 chord for example would therefore contain the following notes.
A sus4 chord replaces the 1 3 5 pattern with 1 4 5 meaning the third note is replaced by the fourth if for example the tab says you need to play a dsus4 chord instead of playing d f a 1 3 5 you raise the middle note or the third note by a half step. Besides the standard sus4 sus2 names the annotation c4 d4 e4 and so forth can occur and often together with c3 d3 e3 and so forth meaning a sequence from sus to major. When we suspend a note in a chord we take away the 3rd and replace it with the note that we want to include.
Sus means suspended what we are suspending here is the third of the chord so a sus2 or sus4 chord is essentially a chord with something else instead of the third which leads to it being less stable and not defined as major or minor. There s a lot of confusion surrounding the true meaning of suspended chords. A suspended chord or sus chord is a musical chord in which the major or minor third is omitted replaced usually with either a perfect fourth or a major second although the fourth is far more common.
G sus chords for piano sus4 and sus2 with keyboard diagram. Major chords minor chords seventh chords extended chords sus chords dim chords aug chords add chords altered chords. Therefore the sus 4 chord has the following chord tones.
Gsus2 is sometimes written as g2. The second note in the chord is flattened or raised one step. The chord is constructed by raising the third note of the chord a half step or lowering the third note a whole step.