C7sus4

C1F4G5B♭♭7

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

on ukulele on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

888a88

moderate · barre

Fig. 3

x33363

moderate · barre

Fig. 4

x35066

hard

Fig. 5

8a8a88

moderate · barre

Fig. 6

x33066

moderate · barre

What is true of it

C7sus4 is C, F, G and B♭ — 1, 4, 5 and b7 counted from C.

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

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 888a88: 2 fingers, one of them barring the 8th fret, held at the 8th 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.

4 of the 5 need a barre.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

C7sus4/F

11301x

second inversion

C7sus4/G

3333xx

third inversion

C7sus4/B♭

x13011

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.

C in other shapes

Csus2suspended second Csus4suspended fourth Cmajor Cmminor Cdimdiminished

C♯7sus4 D♭7sus4 D7sus4 D♯7sus4 E♭7sus4 E7sus4 F7sus4 F♯7sus4 all 374