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Fig. 1 · Bbsus4 · moderate

guitar chord

B♭sus4

B♭1E♭4F5

The third replaced by the fourth, which leans on the third it is standing in for.

Written the other way round it is A♯sus4 — 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

668866

moderate · barre

Fig. 3

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moderate · barre

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Fig. 4

688866

hard · barre

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Fig. 5

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moderate · barre

Fig. 6

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hard

What is true of it

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

These are also the notes of E♭sus2/B♭ and D♯sus2/B♭. 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 668866: 3 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.

4 of the 5 need a barre.

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♭sus4/E♭

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second inversion

B♭sus4/F

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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♭7sus4dominant seventh suspended fourthB♭majorB♭mminorB♭dimdiminished

Csus4C♯sus4D♭sus4Dsus4D♯sus4E♭sus4Esus4Fsus4all 374