Dsus4

Dsus4 is D, G and A, a suspended fourth. The shape this page opens on is written xx0233, lowest string first.

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

There are 8 common shapes for Dsus4 on the guitar, and 52 derived voicings in 2 families.

In which keys. Every note of Dsus4 belongs to C major (the ii), D major (the I), D minor (the i), E minor (the ♭VII), F major (the vi), G major (the V), G minor (the v), A minor (the iv), Bb major (the iii) and B minor (the ♭III).

The common shapes, written lowest string first: xx0233, x50035, x5523x, x57785, 10-x-7-7-8-10, x-x-7-7-8-10, 10-12-12-12-10-10, x-x-12-14-15-15.

Triad. Three notes across one string set. Dsus4 has xxx233, xx0233, 3002xx, xxx035, 300xxx, xx0035, 3000xx, x0003x.

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. Dsus4 has xx0035, x0003x, 5500xx, 5x003x.

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