D♭sus4

D♭1G♭4A♭5

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

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

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

6644

moderate

Fig. 3

664x

easy

Fig. 4

6899

hard

What is true of it

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

These are also the notes of G♭sus2/D♭ and F♯sus2/D♭. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.

The easiest of the 3 fingerings below is 6644: 4 fingers, 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.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 5 — 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♭sus4/G♭

x644

second inversion

D♭sus4/A♭

112x

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♭sus2suspended second D♭7sus4dominant seventh suspended fourth D♭major D♭mminor D♭dimdiminished

Csus4 Dsus4 D♯sus4 E♭sus4 Esus4 Fsus4 F♯sus4 G♭sus4 all 374