Bsus2

B1C♯2F♯5

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

on ukulele on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x24422

moderate · barre

Fig. 3

74440x

hard

Fig. 4

74460x

hard

Fig. 5

x2442x

moderate · barre

Fig. 6

7444xx

hard

What is true of it

Bsus2 is B, C♯ and F♯ — 1, 2 and 5 counted from B.

These are also the notes of F♯sus4/B and G♭sus4/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 x24422: 3 fingers, one of them barring the 2nd fret, held at the 2nd 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 of the 5 need a barre.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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

first inversion

Bsus2/C♯

x4440x

second inversion

Bsus2/F♯

224422

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

Bsus4suspended fourth B7sus4dominant seventh suspended fourth Bmajor Bmminor Bdimdiminished

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