Asus4

Asus4 is A, D and E, a suspended fourth. The shape this page opens on is written x02230, lowest string first.

Also written Asus or A suspended 4th. The same chord either way; which spelling you meet depends on who wrote the chart.

There are 8 common shapes for Asus4 on the guitar, and 55 derived voicings in 2 families.

In which keys. Every note of Asus4 belongs to C major (the vi), D major (the V), D minor (the v), E minor (the iv), F major (the iii), 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: x02230, x00x30, 5x2235, xx2235, 577755, x-x-7-9-10-10, x-12-12-9-10-x, x-12-14-14-15-12.

Triad. Three notes across one string set. Asus4 has xxx230, xx223x, x0223x, xx0230, 0002xx, xx2230, xx775x, xxx755.

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. Asus4 has x00230, x0075x, 0002xx, 0x023x, xx0250.

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