×BEABE
Fig. 1 · B7sus4 · moderate

guitar chord

B7sus4

B1E4F♯5A♭7

A dominant seventh with the fourth standing in for the third.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x22200

moderate · barre · no 5

Fig. 3

704400

easy

Fig. 4

707400

easy · no 5

Fig. 5

x22202

moderate

Fig. 6

x24200

moderate · barre

What is true of it

B7sus4 is B, E, F♯ and A — 1, 4, 5 and b7 counted from B.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x22200: one finger, one of them barring the 2nd fret, held at the 2nd fret.

None of them uses an open string, so this chord moves up the neck unchanged — the same shape 1 fret higher is the chord a semitone above.

2 of the 5 need a barre.

It leaves out the 5. 6 strings cannot carry 4 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are B, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

B7sus4/E

004400

second inversion

B7sus4/F♯

202200

third inversion

B7sus4/A

x04400

An inversion is the same chord with a different note lowest. The name changes to a slash name because the bass is what a listener hears as the foundation.

B in other shapes

Bsus2suspended secondBsus4suspended fourthBmajorBmminorBdimdiminished

C7sus4C♯7sus4D♭7sus4D7sus4D♯7sus4E♭7sus4E7sus4F7sus4all 374