Fsus2 chord on guitar
F sus2
Fsus2 is a sus2 chord with three notes: F, G and C. Learn it first as an open shape: one open string and two 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 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 and A strings and strum from the D string down.
- Shape
- Open shapeindex finger across two strings at fret 1
- Fingers
- Twoindex and ring
- Strings played
- FourD, G, B and high e
- Open strings
- Onethe G string
- Lowest note
- F3the root, on the D string
- Frets
- x x 3 0 1 1low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Fsus2
- Froot
- Gmajor second
- Cperfect 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
- high e string: F4root
- B string: C4perfect fifth
- G string: G3major second
- D string: F3root
- A string: not played
- low E string: not played
Every note of Fsus2 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Other ways to play it
- Barre at fret 3x x 3 5 6 3Root on the D string.
- Barre at fret 8x 8 10 10 8 8Root 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 Fsus2 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.