Csus2 chord on guitar
C sus2
Csus2 is a sus2 chord with three notes: C, D and G. Learn it first as an open shape: two open strings and three fingers on the frets. Below: where each finger goes, which strings to skip and two more ways 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 B string, fret 1
- Ring on the A string, fret 3
- Pinky on the high e string, fret 3
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
- Threeindex, ring and pinky
- Strings played
- FiveA, D, G, B and high e
- Open strings
- Twothe D and G strings
- Lowest note
- C3the root, on the A string
- Frets
- x 3 0 0 1 3low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Csus2
- Croot
- Dmajor second
- Gperfect fifth
A sus2 chord swaps the third for a major second, so it is neither major nor minor. D is the major second, two frets above the root. G is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: G4perfect fifth
- B string: C4root
- G string: G3perfect fifth
- D string: D3major second
- A string: C3root
- low E string: not played
Every note of Csus2 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Other ways to play it
- Barre at fret 3x 3 5 5 3 3Root on the A string.
- Barre at fret 10x x 10 12 13 10Root 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 Csus2 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.