Re: [abcusers] Chord notation

[Phil Taylor]

Bert Van Vreckem wrote:

>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.

I always thought that chord was D11, but then I never was very good
at figuring out the names for these things.

>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.

And that one I've always called D9.

Phil Taylor


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