D♭sus2

D♭1E♭2A♭5

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

Written the other way round it is C♯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

x46644

moderate · barre

Fig. 3

x4112x

hard

Fig. 4

x4114x

hard

Fig. 5

x4664x

moderate · barre

Fig. 6

9666xx

hard

What is true of it

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

These are also the notes of A♭sus4/D♭ and G♯sus4/D♭. 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 x46644: 3 fingers, one of them barring the 4th fret, held at the 4th 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 D♭, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

D♭sus2/E♭

x6664x

second inversion

D♭sus2/A♭

446644

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.

D♭ in other shapes

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

Csus2 Dsus2 D♯sus2 E♭sus2 Esus2 Fsus2 F♯sus2 G♭sus2 all 374