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Now I can teach you about suspended chords.

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So, what is a suspended chord, first of all?

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They're not chords[br]that just like hanging around a lot.

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So, first of all you need to know what a "triad" is.

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Now, and triads are not [br]Asian dudes with machine guns.

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In a musical sense.

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So, what we are talking about here[br]

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is a triad that is a three note chord.

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Tri, prefix for three,

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so it's a three note chord.

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Three notes chords consist of a root note,

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a third and a fifth,

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wich is really the first note,

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the third note and the fifth note of a Major scale.

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Now, it's the third note of the triad

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that determines whether the chord is major or minor.

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So, if we were to have a look at, say, an A chord,

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then notes in A would be A, B,[br]<u>C</u> would be the third, D, <u>E</u>.

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Now, actually, because of the key signature,[br]the note C would be a C#,

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to make an A major chord.

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If you just go now [br]and play an A chord, an A Major chord

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. . .

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and then you straight away afterward[br]play an A minor chord

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...

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you'd notice that only one note is different.

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And that's the C# on the B string, [br]

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second fret moves to C natural note

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(plays) in the first fret.

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So, it is in fact only one note every time

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that changes between a major and a minor chord.

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Sometimes that note is doubled [br]in your chord voicing,

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just to warn you, it’s just not like [br]one note on the guitar;

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harmonically it's one note that changes.

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Now, suspended chords

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take away the third of the chord

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and replace it with another note.

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So therefore, suspended chords [br]are neither major or minor,

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and they have a very airy sound.

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So, if I just give you some demonstrations here:

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A Major:

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. . .

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Old happy sounding A Major.

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Now, if I move that...

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the third of the chord, [br]which is the note C#,

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if I move that up one semitone,

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to D

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...

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we now have an Asus4 sound.

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. . .

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Here it's kinda hovering,

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it is kind of hanging about a bit, that one.

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. . .

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Then we go back to A,

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. . .

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Now, if I lift off my little finger now:

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. . .

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which is kind of going down...[br]that note down two frets,

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because if I go down just one [br]it gets to the minor chord,

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...

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we get an Asus2 chord.

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So, we've got now A:

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. . .

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Asus4:

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. . .

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A

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. . .

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and Asus2:

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. . .

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Quite a simple movement.

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Now, I'm not doing close-ups here at the chords,

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because it's quite a few chords and a few songs

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that I'm going to go through in this lesson,

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so, please go and check out the chords at:[br]

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www.justinguitar.com

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you click on "chords" which is on the left hand side,

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or "chords and scales" I think it says actually,

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and then in the top group[br]there are suspended chords.

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It shouldn't be very difficult for you to find them,

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and it explains all the different[br]fingering choices as well,

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so please go and check that out.

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So, that was A chord.[br]You can hear we had A:

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. . .

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Very common sound.

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That is the A chord.[br]Now if we move it onto D,

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. . .

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play a regular D chord,

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then we add our little finger down,

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. . .

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that's Dsus4.

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. . .

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Back to regular D,[br]lift off our second finger,

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. . .

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we get Dsus2

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. . .

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and then back to D.

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Now, just using those two types of chord shapes,

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I can show you [br]a couple of the different ways it was used.

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The first way you use suspended chords[br]

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is as an ornament,

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it's to kind of decorate when you play.

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So, if you got a D chord for ages and ages

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and you just want to do [br]something a little bit different to it,

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then it just... you know

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. . .

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If you start to get a bit bored, you could:

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. . .

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You can just kind of add them in whenever you like,

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and they work on major and minor chords.

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I'll show you some tricks on that in a sec.

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Some famous examples[br]I can think off the top of my head was...

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and old song from the 80's or early 90's...[br]

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"Dead or Alive", by Bon Jovi,

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it's got a really nice example [br]right at the beginning,[br]

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where it goes:

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. . .

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It's a little decoration on the D chord there.

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Another good example [br]is "Summer of 69" by Bryan Adams.

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It's actually a keyboard part,

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but that whole song is doing a...

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Yeah, it starts on Dsus2, D,

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sus4, D

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sus2, D,

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and then it goes to Asus2, (plays)

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A regular, Asus4, A.

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. . .

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So you can see then,

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in that instance it's kind of [br]using the suspended chord

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as a riff, not just as an ornament.

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So, so far we've talked about D Major [br]

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and then going to the sus,

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and A major going to the sus,

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and like I said, it also works for minor chords.

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So if we start with a D minor chord:

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. . .

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add the little finger (plays),[br]we get Dsus4 again.

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Back to D minor:

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...

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And then lift off your first finger (plays)

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and you get Dsus2.

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So the sus4 and the sus2 are the same,

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just we've put a minor in the middle[br]

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instead of a major.

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...

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So a good example of using that one

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for both a Dm and Am is...

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"Loosing my Religion", by R.E.M.,

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where it's got this little:

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. . .

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You can hear very clearly that

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he's used the suspended chords

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to kind of make a riff.

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Also the Rolling Stones on "Paint it Black"

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kind of uses it on the D minor at the beginning:

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. . .

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It changes a bit to that last part.

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. . .

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Very last bit's a bit different,

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but the first part of it is the sus chords.

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So, that's taken care of Dsus4 and Dsus2, [br]

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Asus4 and Asus2.

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If we go on to E now,

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We have a regular E chord,

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if we put down our little finger

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underneath the third finger,

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...

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we get Esus4. (plays)

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And back to E.

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Now, we can't get...

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There's no such chord [br]as an Esus2 chord in an open position.

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I mean, there kind of is just later on, [br]

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but for you right now, there's not.

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Because if we lift off the first finger,

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we get to E minor, not Esus2.

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Yeah?

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You can play it like this, (plays)

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like a big barre chord later on,

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but that's not the one for you right now.

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Again, there's quite a few tunes [br]that use the Esus chord.

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Another good example of that one is...

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"It's Only Natural" by Crowded House,

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which is E, Esus4

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. . .

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Then Asus4 to A

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Asus4 to A and back to E.

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. . .

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Then it goes into barre chords [br]for the rest of the tune.

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But the verses...[br]

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You can hear it's kind of using it like a riff,

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but it's not really a riff, [br]it's just a decoration.

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Now...

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the only other ones that I think

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that are kind of useful for you to learn

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as a starting one is maybe a Csus.

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Now, C is a bit weird, [br]

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because remember I told you that sometimes

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you have to change the third of a chord [br]to make a suspended chord.

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Well, in the case of a C open chord,

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we've got the note E,

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which is the third of the chord.

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It occurs twice.

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So, what I'm just gonna show you[br]

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is a nice kind of decoration,

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but it's not really a true C suspended chord,[br]

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because you might hit the first string.

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There's more of that on the web site.

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But just if you start with C:

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...

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put down your little finger[br]

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in front of your second finger,

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underneath your third

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. . .

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You get Csus4, (plays),

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back to C,

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lift off your second finger, (plays)

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and you get a Csus2. [br]Back to C,

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which is just a really nice change.

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. . .

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You can hear It's just got a kind of comfortable,

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easy feeling for some rhythm guitar.

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So, OK.

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That will do for now.

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If you want to check out [br]some more suspended chords,

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I think every open suspended chord I can think of [br]

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is on the web site,

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so go and have check that out.

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And then try and apply them [br]to any songs that you've got...

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where you've got a chord for a long time.

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See if you can incorporate [br]some of those suspended chords in,

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to make your rhythm guitar playing [br]a little more interesting.

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Have fun, see you soon.

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Bye!