Dsus2

D1E2A5

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

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x200

open

Fig. 3

7400

easy

Fig. 4

7450

easy

Fig. 5

7455

hard

Fig. 6

7457

hard

What is true of it

Dsus2 is D, E and A — 1, 2 and 5 counted from D.

These are also the notes of Asus4/D. 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 x200: one finger, held at the 2nd fret.

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

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 7 — 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

Dsus2/E

x455

second inversion

Dsus2/A

2200

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

Dsus4suspended fourth D7sus4dominant seventh suspended fourth Dmajor Dmminor Ddimdiminished

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