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Fig. 1 · Bb7sus4 · moderate

guitar chord

B♭7sus4

B♭1E♭4F5A♭♭7

A dominant seventh with the fourth standing in for the third.

Written the other way round it is A♯7sus4 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

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Fig. 2

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Fig. 3

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Fig. 4

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Fig. 5

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Fig. 6

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What is true of it

B♭7sus4 is B♭, E♭, F and A♭ — 1, 4, 5 and b7 counted from B♭.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 666866: 2 fingers, one of them barring the 6th fret, held at the 6th 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.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

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first inversion

B♭7sus4/E♭

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second inversion

B♭7sus4/F

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third inversion

B♭7sus4/A♭

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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.

B♭ in other shapes

B♭sus2suspended secondB♭sus4suspended fourthB♭majorB♭mminorB♭dimdiminished

C7sus4C♯7sus4D♭7sus4D7sus4D♯7sus4E♭7sus4E7sus4F7sus4all 374