G#sus4 chord
G#sus4 chord for guitar with diagrams, fingerings and notes.
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G#sus4 is equivalent to A flat sus 4th. G#sus4 can be seen as an G# major triad with the third (C) replaced by the fourth (C#). It's usually played as a barre chord, whereas It's difficult to find natural fingerings for open chords.
Shown in the Fingerings diagram is a barre shape with the index finger laying over five strings, based on the Asus4 shape – an alternative is to play the barre shape involving six strings lower on the neck, based on one of the Esus4 shapes.
As shown in Notes diagram, three notes are played with G# and D# doublings.
Notice that the diagram starts at the 11th fret rather than the 1st fret.
Short notation: X 11 13 13 14 11.
Chord structure
The chord consists of three notes. The notes represent the root, perfect fourth and perfect fifth intervals.
Chord name
G#sus4 is an abbreviation for G sharp suspended fourth. Sometimes, G#sus alone is used as an abbreviation.
Notes
The notes that the G#sus4 chord consists of are G#, C# and D#.
Chord progressions
G# - G#sus4 - G#
Inversions
1st inversion: G#sus4/C# (means that C# is the bass note).
2nd inversion: G#sus4/D# (means that D# is the bass note).