Asus2

Asus2 is A, B and E, a suspended second. The shape this page opens on is written x02200, lowest string first.

Also written A2 or A suspended 2nd. The same chord either way; which spelling you meet depends on who wrote the chart.

There are 11 common shapes for Asus2 on the guitar, and 55 derived voicings in 2 families.

In which keys. Every note of Asus2 belongs to C major (the vi), C# minor (the ♭VI), D major (the V), E major (the IV), E minor (the iv), F# minor (the ♭III), G major (the ii), A major (the I), A minor (the i) and B minor (the ♭VII).

The common shapes, written lowest string first: x02200, x02400, 52245x, x22255, 5xx455, 577x57, x-x-7-9-10-7, x09900, x-12-9-9-10-12, x-x-9-9-10-12, x-12-14-14-12-12.

Triad. Three notes across one string set. Asus2 has xxx200, x024xx, x222xx, xx220x, x0220x, x2220x, xx2200, 0024xx.

Open string. An open string left ringing against a fretted grip. Because it costs no finger, it sounds a note the closed shape has none left for -- a tension on top, or a pedal root underneath. Either a familiar grip with open strings added, or a shape so sparse the open strings carry the chord. These belong to their key rather than to a shape, so D, A, G and E have many and Eb a handful. Asus2 has x0220x, x02400, xx2200, 0024xx, 0x220x, 00740x.

The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in where the chords and the theory come from.