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suspended Common in popular music are “sus” chords, with “sus” being a shortening of “suspended,” a term we will study in the chapter on non-chord tones. 🔗 The two basic sus chords are the sus4 and sus2 chords. In the sus4 chord (also labeled simply as “sus”), a perfect 4th replaces the 3rd of the chord.

The difference between sus chords and add chords is that sus chords assume you have all the previous notes but the third has been shifted. Whereas add chords do not assume you have all the previous notes but additional extensions of your choosing.

A sus7 chord often precedes a dominant chord built from the same Root. In lieu of a regular ii7-V7 we may find Vsus7-V7. In the key of C, instead of Dm7 - G7 we would get: Gsus7 - G7.

A chord is called suspended (sus for short) when it has no interval of a third in it. This is important because the third tells us if a chord is major or minor. Instead, a suspended chord uses either a perfect fourth (P4) or a major second (M2) in place of the major or minor third (M3 or m3).

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A suspended chord (or sus chord) is a musical chord in which the (major or minor) third is omitted and replaced with a perfect fourth or a major second. The lack of a minor or a major third in the chord creates an open sound, while the dissonance between the fourth and fifth or second and root creates tension.

a) In major keys, a (major triad with) 11 is a dominant chord, containing or implying a minor 7, whereas (major triad with) sus 4 is a tonic (unless context indicates otherwise), so they're two different things (though an 11 is sometimes notated as 7sus4).

Sus means suspended – what we are suspending here is the third of the chord, so a sus2 or sus4 chord is essentially a chord with “something else” instead of the third, which leads to it being less stable and not defined as major or minor. This “something else” can be the second or the fourth.

So suspend it and replace it with the second ok so again the chord in itself is kind of like an instruction. You suspend the 3rd. And add the second I guess is a nice simple way of thinking about it

These create a much more ambiguous and floating sound. The sus4 chord is much more common than the sus2 chord, so the '4' is often dropped. So if you see just a sus chord with no number after it, it implies a sus4 chord.

A diminished chord is spelled with two minor 3rds in the triad, e g. “C, Eb, Gb”. A suspended (4th) chord is spelled with a perfect 4th between the root and middle note and a perfect 5th between the root and the 5th, e.g. “C, E, G”.