Dsus4 chord on guitar
D sus4
Dsus4 is a sus4 chord with three notes: D, G and A. Learn it first as an open shape: one open string 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 G string, fret 2
- Ring on the B 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 and A strings and strum from the D string down.
- Shape
- Open shape
- Fingers
- Threeindex, ring and pinky
- Strings played
- FourD, G, B and high e
- Open strings
- Onethe D string
- Lowest note
- D3the root, on the D string
- Frets
- x x 0 2 3 3low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Dsus4
- Droot
- Gperfect fourth
- Aperfect fifth
A sus4 chord swaps the third for a perfect fourth, so it is neither major nor minor. G is the perfect fourth, five frets above the root. A is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: G4perfect fourth
- B string: D4root
- G string: A3perfect fifth
- D string: D3root
- A string: not played
- low E string: not played
Every note of Dsus4 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Other ways to play it
- Barre at fret 5x 5 7 7 8 5Root on the A string.
- Barre at fret 1010 12 12 12 10 10Root on the low E string.
Songs in Lark with Dsus4
One song in the library strums Dsus4. Open one for the full chord sheet, then play it with Lark and every chord gets checked.
Related chords
All 111 chords in the chartStrum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play Dsus4 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.