A♭sus2

A♭1B♭2E♭5

The third replaced by the second. Nothing in it decides between major and minor.

Written the other way round it is G♯sus2 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukulele on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

4111xx

hard

Fig. 3

4113xx

hard

Fig. 4

xx6344

hard

Fig. 5

xx6346

hard

Fig. 6

4663xx

hard

What is true of it

A♭sus2 is A♭, B♭ and E♭ — 1, 2 and 5 counted from A♭.

These are also the notes of E♭sus4/A♭ and D♯sus4/A♭. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 4111xx: 4 fingers, held at the 1st fret.

None of them uses an open string, so this chord moves up the neck unchanged — the same shape 1 fret higher is the chord a semitone above.

2 strings stay silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are A♭, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

A♭sus2/B♭

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second inversion

A♭sus2/E♭

bbddbb

An inversion is the same chord with a different note lowest. The name changes to a slash name because the bass is what a listener hears as the foundation.

A♭ in other shapes

A♭sus4suspended fourth A♭7sus4dominant seventh suspended fourth A♭major A♭mminor A♭dimdiminished

Csus2 C♯sus2 D♭sus2 Dsus2 D♯sus2 E♭sus2 Esus2 Fsus2 all 374