Esus4

Esus4 is E, A and B, a suspended fourth. The shape this page opens on is written 022200, lowest string first.

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

There are 9 common shapes for Esus4 on the guitar, and 54 derived voicings in 2 families.

In which keys. Every note of Esus4 belongs to C major (the iii), C# minor (the ♭III), D major (the ii), E major (the I), E minor (the i), F# minor (the ♭VII), G major (the vi), A major (the V), A minor (the v) and B minor (the iv).

The common shapes, written lowest string first: 022200, 022455, xx2455, x7745x, x-7-9-9-10-7, x-x-9-9-10-0, 12-x-9-9-10-12, x-x-9-9-10-12, 12-14-14-14-12-12.

Triad. Three notes across one string set. Esus4 has xx220x, x024xx, xxx200, x222xx, 0024xx, xx2200, 0222xx, x0220x.

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. Esus4 has xx2200, 00220x, 0024xx, 007400, x0240x.

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