Csus2

C1D2G5

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

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

5035

easy

Fig. 3

x035

easy

Fig. 4

5233

moderate

Fig. 5

5235

moderate

Fig. 6

523x

easy

What is true of it

Csus2 is C, D and G — 1, 2 and 5 counted from C.

These are also the notes of Gsus4/C. 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 5035: 3 fingers, held at the 3rd 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.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

Csus2/D

x233

second inversion

Csus2/G

0035

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.

C in other shapes

Csus4suspended fourth C7sus4dominant seventh suspended fourth Cmajor Cmminor Cdimdiminished

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