what's a C2 chord?

<a href="http://www.justworship.com/chords/c2.gif" target="_blank">http://www.justworship.com/chords/c2.gif</a>

Theres C2 its pretty easy.

thats C suspended 2.....he wants C2 isnt their a difference?

Bollocks, im lost  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_lol.gif" border=0 alt="Laughing">

<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>jerome.oneil wrote on Wed, 14 March 2007 22&#58;17</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>scrimmy82 wrote on Wed, 14 March 2007 12&#58;59</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
Bollocks, im lost  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_lol.gif" border=0 alt="Laughing">
</td></tr></table>

<img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_biggrin.gif" border=0 alt="Very Happy">  Lets see if we can find you...

A suspended chord means that you don't play the third of the scale, and instead play the 2nd or the 4th as indicated.

So a C major chord (or any major chord, for that matter) is made up of the 1st, 3rd, and 5th notes of the C major scale....
</td></tr></table>

Thanks for all the responses. Jerome, I <i>THINK</i>I'm getting it. So then, for another example of a major2 chord-such as D2, I would play the DEFA notes right? If I'm following right, then you explained it great Jerome. Let me know. It's a really interesting lesson on suspended chords as well.

Seems like it, which is why I think the Csus2 was actually the right call.

I'm way better at theory than I am at the fretboard, but knowing theory has made learning the fretboard way easier, and made me a much better player.

Anyway, there are some oddities with extended chords  (the 7s, and 9s and 11s and 13s).  They are really "jazz" chords, and we all know those jazz guys are always a bit off.  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_biggrin.gif" border=0 alt="Very Happy">   For the most part, the number indicates which note of the scale you'd add to the chord, but there are some caveats.

If you play any blues, you play 7 chords.  Given the  explanation before, it would seem that a C7 would mean you add a B to the chord, but that's not the case.  7 chords are also known as "dominant" 7s, and you really add a flattened 7th (Bb in the case of a C7) so it's different.  A straight up 7 chord as I described above would be a "major 7" indicating you're staying true to the major scale.   So if you see that in a chord chart, that's what it means.  It took me a while to get the difference between a maj7 and a 7 chord, as the descriptions are backwards.  It makes more sense to call the dom7 a "flat7" chord and the "maj7" the 7 chord.  But I don't make the rules.

<img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_biggrin.gif" border=0 alt="Very Happy">

So anyway, in the case of a D2, we can break it down like this.

D major scale

1 2 3  4 5 6 7

D E F# G A B C# 

So D major is D F# A.

If it's a sus2, you'd use E instead of F# and if it's a straight up D2, then you'd add the E inclusive of the F#.

I guess if I was going to stress any one thing, it's learn the major scales.  The entirety of western music is based on them.  All your chords are derived from scales.  All your modes are derived from scales.  The beauty is that they aren't really all that complicated.

<img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_razz.gif" border=0 alt="Razz"> Most likely meanssecond fret,  via using a capo.  That what it sounds like.  But I could be wrong.  Good luck with your playing. Don't get discouraged.

<table border="0" align="center" width="90%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td class="SmallText"><b>bigdjindustriez wrote on Sat, 17 March 2007 02&#58;05</b></td></tr><tr><td class="quote">
There is no such thing as a C2 chord, merely just a C major on the second fret, with a capo. 
</td></tr></table>

That would then be a D.

C2 = C D E G

How you fret it is up to you.