E7sus4

E1A4B5D♭7

A dominant seventh with the fourth standing in for the third.

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x455

easy · no 5

Fig. 3

9bac

hard

Fig. 4

99ax

moderate · barre · no 5

Fig. 5

99a7

hard · no 5

Fig. 6

99ac

moderate · barre · no 5

What is true of it

E7sus4 is E, A, B and D — 1, 4, 5 and b7 counted from E.

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

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x455: 3 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.

2 of the 5 need a barre.

It leaves out the 5. 4 strings cannot carry 4 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

E7sus4/A

2200

second inversion

E7sus4/B

4200

third inversion

E7sus4/D

x200

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.

E in other shapes

Esus2suspended second Esus4suspended fourth Emajor Emminor Edimdiminished

C7sus4 C♯7sus4 D♭7sus4 D7sus4 D♯7sus4 E♭7sus4 F7sus4 F♯7sus4 all 374