Bsus4

B1E4F♯5

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

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

460x

easy

Fig. 3

4607

easy

Fig. 4

4422

moderate

Fig. 5

442x

easy

Fig. 6

4677

hard

What is true of it

Bsus4 is B, E and F♯ — 1, 4 and 5 counted from B.

These are also the notes of Esus2/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 460x: 2 fingers, held at the 4th 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.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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

Bsus4/E

x422

second inversion

Bsus4/F♯

x677

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

Bsus2suspended second B7sus4dominant seventh suspended fourth Bmajor Bmminor Bdimdiminished

Csus4 C♯sus4 D♭sus4 Dsus4 D♯sus4 E♭sus4 Esus4 Fsus4 all 374