A♯sus2

A♯1B♯2E♯5

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

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

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

3011

open

Fig. 3

3013

open

Fig. 4

301x

open

Fig. 5

3563

moderate · barre

Fig. 6

xa88

easy

What is true of it

A♯sus2 is A♯, B♯ and E♯ — 1, 2 and 5 counted from A♯.

These are also the notes of Fsus4/A♯. 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 3011: 3 fingers, held at the 1st fret.

3 of them use open strings, which is what makes a shape quiet to change to.

1 of the 5 need a barre.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

A♯sus2/B♯

x011

second inversion

A♯sus2/E♯

x563

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.

A♯ in other shapes

A♯sus4suspended fourth A♯7sus4dominant seventh suspended fourth A♯major A♯mminor A♯dimdiminished

Csus2 C♯sus2 D♭sus2 Dsus2 D♯sus2 E♭sus2 Esus2 Fsus2 all 374