G♭sus2

G♭1A♭2D♭5

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

Written the other way round it is F♯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

xx4122

hard

Fig. 3

xx4124

hard

Fig. 4

2441xx

hard

Fig. 5

x9bb99

moderate · barre

Fig. 6

xx4674

moderate · barre

What is true of it

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

These are also the notes of D♭sus4/G♭ and C♯sus4/G♭. 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 xx4122: 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 of the 5 need a barre.

2 strings stay silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

G♭sus2/A♭

444674

second inversion

G♭sus2/D♭

99bb99

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.

G♭ in other shapes

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

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