Suspended Chords

Now that you have learned how to play standard formations of chords, it's possible to make slight modifications to chords which will make them sound slightly different than the original formation. This is the process of making a chord Suspended.

Suspended chords modify the chords by making one note in the chord a half-step sharp, thus in turn, the chord will sound slightly higher than the normal version.

Refer to theory for more info

Here is the majority of suspended chords.


A suspended
E suspended
D suspended
A suspended E suspended D  suspended

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E suspended.aiff 55k

D suspended.aiff 48k

Exercise:

Suspended lesson

Play the entire exercise through once with the D suspended chord, then gradually rotate the suspended chord through the pattern.


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