D♭sus2

D♭1E♭2A♭5

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

Written the other way round it is C♯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

6344

hard

Fig. 3

6346

hard

Fig. 4

634x

easy

Fig. 5

6896

moderate · barre

What is true of it

D♭sus2 is D♭, E♭ and A♭ — 1, 2 and 5 counted from D♭.

These are also the notes of A♭sus4/D♭ and G♯sus4/D♭. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.

The easiest of the 4 fingerings below is 6344: 4 fingers, held at the 3rd 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 of the 4 need a barre.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 6 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

D♭sus2/E♭

x344

second inversion

D♭sus2/A♭

1344

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.

D♭ in other shapes

D♭sus4suspended fourth D♭7sus4dominant seventh suspended fourth D♭major D♭mminor D♭dimdiminished

Csus2 Dsus2 D♯sus2 E♭sus2 Esus2 Fsus2 F♯sus2 G♭sus2 all 374