Esus2 chord on guitar
E sus2
Esus2 is a sus2 chord with three notes: E, F# and B. Learn it first as an open shape: three 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 A string, fret 2
- Ring on the D string, fret 4
- Pinky on the G string, fret 4
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
- Open shape
- Fingers
- Threeindex, ring and pinky
- Strings played
- All six
- Open strings
- Threethe low E, B and high e strings
- Lowest note
- E2the root, on the low E string
- Frets
- 0 2 4 4 0 0low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Esus2
- Eroot
- F#major second
- Bperfect fifth
A sus2 chord swaps the third for a major second, so it is neither major nor minor. F# is the major second, two frets above the root. B is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: E4root
- B string: B3perfect fifth
- G string: B3perfect fifth
- D string: F#3major second
- A string: B2perfect fifth
- low E string: E2root
Every note of Esus2 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Other ways to play it
- Barre at fret 2x x 2 4 5 2Root on the D string.
- Barre at fret 7x 7 9 9 7 7Root on the A string.
Related chords
All 111 chords in the chartStrum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play Esus2 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.