Some ways to play Asus4 on guitar.



Herein lies the problem, and the value of the internet video of the original player actually playing the song. You can see where he or she played the chord.
There are many ways to play the same chord.

The "suspended 4 chord" removes the 3rd and replaces it with the 4th note of the major scale. The purpose is to create "tension" which is resolved when moving back to the major chord. To say it another way one rases the 3rd a half step. It is very common and done in thousands of songs.

The progression is A, Asus4, A.

The second note in the A major triad is C# and on the piano from the root position one rases that note a half step to D. This is super easy to see and understand on the piano. Perhaps less so in the first and second inversion of the chord. Suspended chords are most often played from the root position.

This "visualization" on the guitar neck is a bit more difficult because one has to know and recognize every note on the guitar neck and know what note forms the chord you want to play and know the notes in every major scale. That is why we normally think in "patterns" on the guitar and memorize the position of things.

A Guitarist can play middle C on five of their six guitar strings. Therein lies the big problem with sight-reading sheet music. Which "middle C" do you play? It is why Tab was created.

I hope I have explained this correctly. I am certainly not a theory expert.

My issue is not with how a song is arranged. It is with so call "internet youtube guitar teachers" saying and demonstrating things that are just highly inaccurate creating a situation where inexperienced guitar players develop all kinds of misconceptions.

Billy

Last edited by Planobilly; 12/03/21 03:11 AM.
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