F#sus2 chord on guitar

F# sus2

134xxEADGBe4
xx4674Barre at fret 4

F#sus2 is a sus2 chord with three notes: F#, G# and C#. Learn it first as a barre at fret 4, your index finger flat across four strings. 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

  1. Index flat across fret 4, from the D string to the high e
  2. Ring on the G string, fret 6
  3. Pinky on the B string, fret 7

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
Barre at fret 4index finger across four strings at fret 4
Fingers
Threeindex, ring and pinky
Strings played
FourD, G, B and high e
Open strings
Noneevery played string is fretted
Lowest note
F#3the root, on the D string
Frets
x x 4 6 7 4low E to high e, x means skip it

The notes in F#sus2

  • F#root
  • G#major second
  • C#perfect fifth

A sus2 chord swaps the third for a major second, so it is neither major nor minor. G# is the major second, two frets above the root. C# is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root.

String by string

  1. high e string: G#4major second
  2. B string: F#4root
  3. G string: C#4perfect fifth
  4. D string: F#3root
  5. A string: not played
  6. low E string: not played

Every note of F#sus2 is in this shape, some of them twice.

Another way to play it

  • xEADGBe9Barre at fret 9x 9 11 11 9 9Root on the A string.

Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right.

Open the chord detector, play F#sus2 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.