Csus4 chord on guitar
C sus4
Csus4 is a sus4 chord with three notes: C, F and G. Learn it first as an open shape: one open string and three fingers on the frets, with the index finger flat across two strings at fret 1. 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 flat across fret 1, from the B string to the high e
- Ring on the A string, fret 3
- Pinky on the D 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 shapeindex finger across two strings at fret 1
- Fingers
- Threeindex, ring and pinky
- Strings played
- FiveA, D, G, B and high e
- Open strings
- Onethe G string
- Lowest note
- C3the root, on the A string
- Frets
- x 3 3 0 1 1low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Csus4
- Croot
- Fperfect fourth
- Gperfect fifth
A sus4 chord swaps the third for a perfect fourth, so it is neither major nor minor. F is the perfect fourth, five frets above the root. G is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: F4perfect fourth
- B string: C4root
- G string: G3perfect fifth
- D string: F3perfect fourth
- A string: C3root
- low E string: not played
Every note of Csus4 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Other ways to play it
- Barre at fret 3x 3 5 5 6 3Root on the A string.
- Barre at fret 88 10 10 10 8 8Root on the low E string.
Related chords
All 111 chords in the chartStrum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play Csus4 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.