Fsus4 chord on guitar
F sus4
Fsus4 is a sus4 chord with three notes: F, Bb and C. Learn it first as a barre at fret 1, your index finger flat across two strings. 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
- Pinky on the G 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
- Barre at fret 1index finger across two strings at fret 1
- Fingers
- Threeindex, ring and pinky
- Strings played
- FourD, G, B and high e
- Open strings
- Noneevery played string is fretted
- Lowest note
- F3the root, on the D string
- Frets
- x x 3 3 1 1low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Fsus4
- Froot
- Bbperfect fourth
- Cperfect fifth
A sus4 chord swaps the third for a perfect fourth, so it is neither major nor minor. Bb is the perfect fourth, five 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: Bb3perfect fourth
- D string: F3root
- A string: not played
- low E string: not played
Every note of Fsus4 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Other ways to play it
- Barre at fret 11 3 3 3 1 1Root on the low E string.
- Barre at fret 8x 8 10 10 11 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 Fsus4 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.