F7sus4

F1B♭4C5E♭♭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

111311

moderate · barre

Fig. 3

131311

moderate · barre

Fig. 4

11131x

moderate · barre

Fig. 5

13131x

moderate · barre

Fig. 6

111341

moderate · barre · no 5

What is true of it

F7sus4 is F, B♭, C and E♭ — 1, 4, 5 and b7 counted from F.

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

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 111311: 2 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.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

F7sus4/B♭

x11311

second inversion

F7sus4/C

8888xx

third inversion

F7sus4/E♭

xx1311

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.

F in other shapes

Fsus2suspended second Fsus4suspended fourth Fmajor Fmminor Fdimdiminished

C7sus4 C♯7sus4 D♭7sus4 D7sus4 D♯7sus4 E♭7sus4 E7sus4 F♯7sus4 all 374