E♭sus4

E♭1A♭4B♭5

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

Written the other way round it is D♯sus4 — 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

x341

easy

Fig. 3

8866

hard

Fig. 4

886x

easy

Fig. 5

8abb

hard

What is true of it

E♭sus4 is E♭, A♭ and B♭ — 1, 4 and 5 counted from E♭.

These are also the notes of A♭sus2/E♭ and G♯sus2/E♭. 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 x341: 3 fingers, held at the 1st 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. 6 — 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

E♭sus4/A♭

1341

second inversion

E♭sus4/B♭

334x

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

E♭sus2suspended second E♭7sus4dominant seventh suspended fourth E♭major E♭mminor E♭dimdiminished

Csus4 C♯sus4 D♭sus4 Dsus4 Esus4 Fsus4 F♯sus4 G♭sus4 all 374