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Sus Chords

allyman 27 July 2018

Hi all.

I hoping for a little advice and suggestions on how to handle sus chords. I have to say, I'm not always sure which tones are the most important, and I find that when I'm reading through pop tunes, sus chords appear a lot. Not sure how best to handle.

Is there somewhere on the site where this is covered and I'm just missing it?

Thank you!
Al

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tonymiceli Fri, 07/27/2018 - 16:11

i don't think we've ever talked about sus chords!!!

i'll make a note.

here's a synopsis.

technically a sus chord is a major chord. you just play the 4th instead of the third. so when you play maiden voyage the scales that go with those sms chords are mixolydian.

Csus is a major scale

Csus7 is a mixolydian scale.

lots of times the 4th gets resolved to the 3rd.

Csus / Cmaj

look at this

Gmin7 / C7b9 / Fmaj7

sort of the same as

Csus7 / C7b9 / Fmaj7

get it?

allyman Sat, 07/28/2018 - 07:39

Yes, got it. Thank you. Makes sense. 4th (in the Csus) is the 7th (in the Gmin7). The chords look very similar. This helps!

tonymiceli Sat, 07/28/2018 - 10:00

some people right Cmin9 sus, to me a minor chord can't be a suspended because there's no suspension.

Cmin9sus is just a Cminor11

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