How do you play Esus2E?

Hi

What song are you learning and where abouts are you on the fretboard? I'm not familiar with the chord (in fact I've never heard of it! not that that means much, I guess) but I'll hazard a guess that you'll need to include the E (1st string 12th fret, if you are playing at the 7th or 9th fret. If you are at the 2nd fret tho.....) All I can say is good f..king luck:) it looks like a cumbersome stretch.

Alec

ps I have just taken a look on the net and I think that you've got a chord that someone/artist has made up (not that there's anything wrong with that, mind you. All power to 'em. That would explain it not being a particularly well recognised chord.)

Guys,

The sus (suspended) chords are basically removing a note from the chord.  For instance, Dsus2 means to suspend the #2 note (ie removing the middle finger from the high E string).  There are only 2 suspended methods (that I know of.)  There are Sus2 and Sus4. 

Hope this helps!

Hi Igor_Ivanovski85,

Reading through this thread I do not think it should be removed. There is a valuable lesson to be learnt here and it is something that any of us, however experienced, could fall foul to.

Thank you for raising the query and for the explanation.

Roger

This is inaccurate.  Sus doesn't mean suspended, it means sustained.  You do suspend the 3rd, but you replace it with whatever the sustained note is.

So Esus2:

E major chord is E G# B

E major scale is E F# G# A B C# D

So F# is the 2nd of E, and is the not that will replace G#.

Esus2:  E F# B

The point of sustained chords is that the sustained note is usually the root of the next chord that is played.  sus4 chords are much more common for this, as the 4th of most scales resolves nicely to the root.  Try adding a G to the next open D you play by dropping your pinky on the third fret  That's Dsus4.  Then play G.  You'll hear how the sustained note adds a little oomph to the resolution to G.