2GbCbGbCbDbGb
Fig. 1 · Gbsus4 · moderate

guitar chord

G♭sus4

G♭1C♭4D♭5

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

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

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

2
Fig. 2

224422

moderate · barre

Fig. 3

24440x

moderate

2
Fig. 4

244422

hard · barre

2
Fig. 5

22442x

moderate · barre

Fig. 6

xx4607

easy

What is true of it

G♭sus4 is G♭, C♭ and D♭ — 1, 4 and 5 counted from G♭.

These are also the notes of Bsus2/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 224422: 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.

3 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 G♭, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

2
first inversion

G♭sus4/C♭

x24422

second inversion

G♭sus4/D♭

x4440x

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♭sus2suspended secondG♭7sus4dominant seventh suspended fourthG♭majorG♭mminorG♭dimdiminished

Csus4C♯sus4D♭sus4Dsus4D♯sus4E♭sus4Esus4Fsus4all 374