Absus2 chord on guitar
Ab sus2
Absus2 is a sus2 chord with three notes: Ab, Bb and Eb. Learn it first as a barre at fret 6, your index finger flat across four strings. Below: where each finger goes, which strings to skip and one more way to play it.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right. The chord detector is free and listens through your mic.
How to play it
- Index flat across fret 6, from the D string to the high e
- Ring on the G string, fret 8
- Pinky on the B string, fret 9
The number in each note head is the finger: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky.
Strings to skip
Skip the low E and A strings and strum from the D string down.
- Shape
- Barre at fret 6index finger across four strings at fret 6
- Fingers
- Threeindex, ring and pinky
- Strings played
- FourD, G, B and high e
- Open strings
- Noneevery played string is fretted
- Lowest note
- Ab3the root, on the D string
- Frets
- x x 6 8 9 6low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Absus2
- Abroot
- Bbmajor second
- Ebperfect fifth
A sus2 chord swaps the third for a major second, so it is neither major nor minor. Bb is the major second, two frets above the root. Eb is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: Bb4major second
- B string: Ab4root
- G string: Eb4perfect fifth
- D string: Ab3root
- A string: not played
- low E string: not played
Every note of Absus2 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Another way to play it
- Barre at fret 11x 11 13 13 11 11Root on the A string.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play Absus2 and Lark names the chord it hears, with the notes in it. In the app, the chord book has all 111 chords, string by string.