E♭sus2

E♭1F2B♭5

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

Written the other way round it is D♯sus2 — 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

x311

easy

Fig. 3

8566

hard

Fig. 4

8568

hard

Fig. 5

856x

easy

Fig. 6

8ab8

moderate · barre

What is true of it

E♭sus2 is E♭, F and B♭ — 1, 2 and 5 counted from E♭.

These are also the notes of B♭sus4/E♭ and A♯sus4/E♭. 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 x311: 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 of the 5 need a barre.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

E♭sus2/F

x566

second inversion

E♭sus2/B♭

3311

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.

E♭ in other shapes

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

Csus2 C♯sus2 D♭sus2 Dsus2 Esus2 Fsus2 F♯sus2 G♭sus2 all 374