Fsus2

F1G2C5

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

x533

easy

Fig. 3

a78a

hard

Fig. 4

a788

hard

Fig. 5

a78x

easy

What is true of it

Fsus2 is F, G and C — 1, 2 and 5 counted from F.

These are also the notes of Csus4/F. 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 x533: 3 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 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 6 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

Fsus2/G

001x

second inversion

Fsus2/C

5533

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.

F in other shapes

Fsus4suspended fourth F7sus4dominant seventh suspended fourth Fmajor Fmminor Fdimdiminished

Csus2 C♯sus2 D♭sus2 Dsus2 D♯sus2 E♭sus2 Esus2 F♯sus2 all 374