Absus4 chord on guitar
Ab sus4
Absus4 is a sus4 chord with three notes: Ab, Db and Eb. Learn it first as a barre at fret 4, your index finger flat across all six 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 4, all six strings
- Middle on the A string, fret 6
- Ring on the D string, fret 6
- Pinky on the G string, fret 6
The number in each note head is the finger: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky.
Strings to skip
Nothing to skip: strum all six strings.
- Shape
- Barre at fret 4index finger across all six strings at fret 4
- Fingers
- Fourindex, middle, ring and pinky
- Strings played
- All six
- Open strings
- Noneevery played string is fretted
- Lowest note
- Ab2the root, on the low E string
- Frets
- 4 6 6 6 4 4low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Absus4
- Abroot
- Dbperfect fourth
- Ebperfect fifth
A sus4 chord swaps the third for a perfect fourth, so it is neither major nor minor. Db is the perfect fourth, five frets above the root. Eb is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: Ab4root
- B string: Eb4perfect fifth
- G string: Db4perfect fourth
- D string: Ab3root
- A string: Eb3perfect fifth
- low E string: Ab2root
Every note of Absus4 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Another way to play it
- Barre at fret 11x 11 13 13 14 11Root on the A string.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play Absus4 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.