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Fig. 1 · Ebsus4 · moderate

guitar chord

E♭sus4

E♭1A♭4B♭5

The third replaced by the fourth, which leans on the third it is standing in for.

Written the other way round it is D♯sus4 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

11
Fig. 2

bbddbb

moderate · barre

Fig. 3

xx1344

hard

6
Fig. 4

x66896

moderate · barre

3
Fig. 5

x6634x

hard

11
Fig. 6

bdddbb

hard · barre

What is true of it

E♭sus4 is E♭, A♭ and B♭ — 1, 4 and 5 counted from E♭.

These are also the notes of A♭sus2/E♭ and G♯sus2/E♭. 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 bbddbb: 3 fingers, one of them barring the 11th fret, held at the 11th 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.

3 of the 5 need a barre.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

E♭sus4/A♭

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6
second inversion

E♭sus4/B♭

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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.

E♭ in other shapes

E♭sus2suspended secondE♭7sus4dominant seventh suspended fourthE♭majorE♭mminorE♭dimdiminished

Csus4C♯sus4D♭sus4Dsus4Esus4Fsus4F♯sus4G♭sus4all 374