G♯sus2

G♯1A♯2D♯5

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

Written the other way round it is A♭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

1341

moderate · barre

Fig. 3

x866

easy

What is true of it

G♯sus2 is G♯, A♯ and D♯ — 1, 2 and 5 counted from G♯.

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

The easiest of the 2 fingerings below is 1341: 3 fingers, one of them barring the 1st fret, 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 of the 2 need a barre.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 4 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

G♯sus2/A♯

334x

second inversion

G♯sus2/D♯

x341

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.

G♯ in other shapes

G♯sus4suspended fourth G♯7sus4dominant seventh suspended fourth G♯major G♯mminor G♯dimdiminished

Csus2 C♯sus2 D♭sus2 Dsus2 D♯sus2 E♭sus2 Esus2 Fsus2 all 374