Asus2 chord on guitar
A sus2
Asus2 is a sus2 chord with three notes: A, B and E. Learn it first as an open shape: three open strings and two fingers on the frets. 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 on the D string, fret 2
- Middle on the G string, fret 2
The number in each note head is the finger: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky.
Strings to skip
Skip the low E string and strum from the A string down.
- Shape
- Open shape
- Fingers
- Twoindex and middle
- Strings played
- FiveA, D, G, B and high e
- Open strings
- Threethe A, B and high e strings
- Lowest note
- A2the root, on the A string
- Frets
- x 0 2 2 0 0low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Asus2
- Aroot
- Bmajor second
- Eperfect fifth
A sus2 chord swaps the third for a major second, so it is neither major nor minor. B is the major second, two frets above the root. E is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: E4perfect fifth
- B string: B3major second
- G string: A3root
- D string: E3perfect fifth
- A string: A2root
- low E string: not played
Every note of Asus2 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Another way to play it
- Barre at fret 7x x 7 9 10 7Root on the D string.
Related chords
All 111 chords in the chartStrum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play Asus2 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.