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Lessons: Lesson #239: Using the Dsus4 Chord |
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Pages: 1 2 3
Suggested Tempo: 120 |
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The D sus4 chord is often used in rock and pop to embellish your standard D major chord. Comparing the featured voicing for our D sus4 and the classic open-string D major chord, we can see below in our chord diagrams that there is only one string that is different (the 1st string) and that there is only a 1 fret difference:
Sus4 means that we take the 3rd of the chord (in this case, our F# at the 2nd fret on the top string) and we suspend it by raising it up a half step to a G, thus created a sus4 chord. The G is our suspended 4th and ultimately wants to resolve back to the F#.
Listen to the example below and focus on the top string, where the G in our Dsus4 resolves to the F# in the D major chord: |
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