Ebsus4

Ebsus4 is Eb, Ab and Bb, a suspended fourth. The shape this page opens on is written xx1344, lowest string first.

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

There are 6 common shapes for Ebsus4 on the guitar, and 47 derived voicings in the triad family.

In which keys. Every note of Ebsus4 belongs to C minor (the ♭III), C# major (the ii), Eb major (the I), Eb minor (the i), F minor (the ♭VII), F# major (the vi), Ab major (the V), Ab minor (the v), Bb minor (the iv) and B major (the iii).

The common shapes, written lowest string first: xx1344, x6634x, x68896, 11-x-8-8-9-11, x-x-8-8-9-11, 11-13-13-13-11-11.

Triad. Three notes across one string set. Ebsus4 has x111xx, xxx344, 666xxx, 6668xx, xx889x, x-x-13-13-11-x, x-x-x-13-11-11, x-x-13-13-11-11.

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