×BbFBbCF
Fig. 1 · Bbsus2 · moderate

guitar chord

B♭sus2

B♭1C2F5

The third replaced by the second. Nothing in it decides between major and minor.

Written the other way round it is A♯sus2 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x13311

moderate · barre

Fig. 3

x1331x

moderate · barre

3
Fig. 4

6333xx

hard

3
Fig. 5

6335xx

hard

5
Fig. 6

xx8566

hard

What is true of it

B♭sus2 is B♭, C and F — 1, 2 and 5 counted from B♭.

These are also the notes of Fsus4/B♭. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x13311: 3 fingers, one of them barring the 1st fret, held at the 1st 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.

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

B♭sus2/C

x3331x

second inversion

B♭sus2/F

113311

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

B♭sus4suspended fourthB♭7sus4dominant seventh suspended fourthB♭majorB♭mminorB♭dimdiminished

Csus2C♯sus2D♭sus2Dsus2D♯sus2E♭sus2Esus2Fsus2all 374