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 E♭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

x341

easy

Fig. 3

8866

hard

Fig. 4

886x

easy

Fig. 5

8abb

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 A♭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 4 fingerings below is x341: 3 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.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 6 — 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♯

1341

second inversion

D♯sus4/A♯

334x

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 C♯sus4 D♭sus4 Dsus4 Esus4 Fsus4 F♯sus4 G♭sus4 all 374