Gsus2sus4 guitar chord
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About Gsus2sus4 — uncommon voicings
Gsus2sus4 is G, A, C and D — with the second added underneath the fourth.
It sounds ringing and deliberately ambiguous. Read another way it is a stack of fourths, which is why it works as a pad rather than as a chord that resolves.
Texture more than function — still no third.
Also written Gsus2/4 or G suspended 2nd and 4th.
What these less common shapes are
How to use Gsus2sus4
In which keys. Every note of Gsus2sus4 belongs to C major (the V), D minor (the iv), E minor (the ♭III), F major (the ii), G major (the I), G minor (the i), A minor (the ♭VII) and Bb major (the vi).
What to play over Gsus2sus4
Every note of Gsus2sus4 is in G major, G natural minor, G dorian, G mixolydian and G harmonic minor.
Each of those is a page: the scale across the neck, and the chords it harmonises into — which is where Gsus2sus4 sits in it. Every scale.
Chords near Gsus2sus4
Change one note of Gsus2sus4 and you have (drop the fourth), (drop the second), (the fourth becomes the major third), (the fourth becomes the minor third), (the second becomes the flat seventh) or (add the flat seventh).
Gsus2sus4 is a suspended chord — root and fifth, with a second or fourth where the third would be — or nothing at all. Suspended and power chords on every root.
The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in how this site is built.