G♯7sus4

G♯1C♯4D♯5F♯♭7

A dominant seventh with the fourth standing in for the third.

Written the other way round it is A♭7sus4 — 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

1324

moderate

Fig. 3

112x

moderate · barre · no 5

Fig. 4

1124

moderate · barre · no 5

Fig. 5

x899

easy · no 5

What is true of it

G♯7sus4 is G♯, C♯, D♯ and F♯ — 1, 4, 5 and b7 counted from G♯.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 4 fingerings below is 1324: 4 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.

2 of the 4 need a barre.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 6 — 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

first inversion

G♯7sus4/C♯

6646

second inversion

G♯7sus4/D♯

8899

third inversion

G♯7sus4/F♯

x644

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 second G♯sus4suspended fourth G♯major G♯mminor G♯dimdiminished

C7sus4 C♯7sus4 D♭7sus4 D7sus4 D♯7sus4 E♭7sus4 E7sus4 F7sus4 all 374