Thanks. So Gsus would be G with an augmented third.
I had understood that a "suspended" chord was one where
a note from the previous chord (very often the 4th) was
made to continue sounding in the new chord.
I'd prefer the notation G4 to be the canonical ABC.
Laurie
----- Original Message -----
From: Bert Van Vreckem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 7:23 AM
Subject: Re: [abcusers] Chord notation
Laurie Griffiths wrote:
> Mike Whitaker said
> > sus sustained
>
> What does this mean? Muse doesn't allow it because I've never heard of
> "sustained" as the name of any chord.
It's suspended (fours), actually, notated as `sus' or `sus4'. Quite
frequently used guitar chord too. The trick is to replace the third by
the fourth, e.g. D = D F# A becomes Dsus4 = D G A
E.g.
EADGBE -> guitar tuning
Dsus(4) = D G A = x00233 (E,,A,,D,G,B,E in abc-notation ;-))
Asus(4) = A D E = x02230
etc.
For info on the chord notation, see
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~desmith/guitar/chords/notate.htm
There's also a suspended second chord, in which the third is replaced
with the second, e.g. Dsus2 = D E A (= 000230 on the guitar), Asus2 = A
B E = 002200.
(source: Dansm's guitar chord theory
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~desmith/guitar/chords/susp.htm)
bert
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