F#sus4 chord on guitar

F# sus4

1234EADGBe
244422Barre at fret 2

F#sus4 is a sus4 chord with three notes: F#, B and C#. Learn it first as a barre at fret 2, your index finger flat across all six 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 2, all six strings
  2. Middle on the A string, fret 4
  3. Ring on the D string, fret 4
  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
Barre at fret 2index finger across all six strings at fret 2
Fingers
Fourindex, middle, ring and pinky
Strings played
All six
Open strings
Noneevery played string is fretted
Lowest note
F#2the root, on the low E string
Frets
2 4 4 4 2 2low E to high e, x means skip it

The notes in F#sus4

  • F#root
  • Bperfect fourth
  • C#perfect fifth

A sus4 chord swaps the third for a perfect fourth, so it is neither major nor minor. B is the perfect fourth, five frets above the root. C# is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root.

String by string

  1. high e string: F#4root
  2. B string: C#4perfect fifth
  3. G string: B3perfect fourth
  4. D string: F#3root
  5. A string: C#3perfect fifth
  6. low E string: F#2root

Every note of F#sus4 is in this shape, some of them twice.

Another way to play it

  • xEADGBe9Barre at fret 9x 9 11 11 12 9Root on the A string.

Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right.

Open the chord detector, play F#sus4 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.