WEBVTT 00:00:05.859 --> 00:00:07.826 Hey, how're you doing? Justin here. 00:00:07.826 --> 00:00:09.249 In this lesson today 00:00:09.249 --> 00:00:11.588 we're going to be checking out suspended chords, 00:00:11.588 --> 00:00:13.635 which are very, very cool little chords 00:00:13.635 --> 00:00:15.770 that float around in the air all by themselves. 00:00:15.770 --> 00:00:18.535 No, seriously, so, suspended chords, 00:00:18.535 --> 00:00:20.326 what they really mean - the technical term, 00:00:20.326 --> 00:00:22.516 for any of you that know a bit of your music theory, 00:00:22.516 --> 00:00:25.862 'suspended' means: take away the third and replace with. 00:00:25.862 --> 00:00:27.962 Now chords are usually made up of 00:00:27.962 --> 00:00:29.584 a root, a third and a fifth 00:00:29.584 --> 00:00:31.392 and it's the third of the chord that dictates 00:00:31.392 --> 00:00:34.350 whether a chord is considered major or minor. 00:00:34.350 --> 00:00:36.400 So, those of you that have done your exercise 00:00:36.400 --> 00:00:38.840 working out what the notes are of your different chords 00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:40.111 will know, let's say for an A chord, 00:00:40.111 --> 00:00:43.174 there's only one note different between A and Amin 00:00:43.174 --> 00:00:47.561 and that's the C# has been replaced by the note C in Amin. 00:00:47.561 --> 00:00:49.933 Just an interesting little bit of food 00:00:49.933 --> 00:00:52.111 for you theory monsters out there. 00:00:52.111 --> 00:00:53.796 So, what we're going for now 00:00:53.796 --> 00:00:55.672 is using these suspended chords 00:00:55.672 --> 00:01:00.102 and we're gonna start off with Asus4 and Asus2. 00:01:01.486 --> 00:01:03.535 Okey-dokey, here we are looking at - 00:01:03.535 --> 00:01:06.360 this is an A chord traditional style 00:01:06.360 --> 00:01:09.338 with the fingers 1, 2, 3 all in a row. 00:01:09.338 --> 00:01:11.391 Now, if we are looking at a regular A 00:01:11.391 --> 00:01:13.035 and we wanna play an Asus4 00:01:13.035 --> 00:01:14.842 we simply add our little finger 00:01:14.842 --> 00:01:17.049 on the 3rd fret of the 2nd string. 00:01:17.049 --> 00:01:22.339 . . . 00:01:22.339 --> 00:01:25.061 Asus4, then we go back to regular A 00:01:26.569 --> 00:01:28.545 and if we lift off our second finger 00:01:29.822 --> 00:01:32.080 we get our Asus2 00:01:32.818 --> 00:01:34.395 and back to A. 00:01:34.610 --> 00:01:41.353 A, Asus 4, regular A, Asus2. 00:01:41.353 --> 00:01:44.498 If you have been doing this playing the A 00:01:44.498 --> 00:01:46.192 with your first and second fingers swapped over, 00:01:46.192 --> 00:01:50.132 there's your regular A, Asus4, 00:01:50.132 --> 00:01:52.464 just as easy to do it that way, 00:01:52.464 --> 00:01:57.089 here, and then lifting that same finger off for Asus2. 00:01:57.089 --> 00:02:00.287 . . . 00:02:00.287 --> 00:02:02.142 Maybe, for you guys it feels the same, 00:02:02.142 --> 00:02:04.148 for me this one feels a lot more comfortable, 00:02:04.148 --> 00:02:06.155 probably 'cause that's the way I learned A 00:02:06.155 --> 00:02:07.585 but just doing that there 00:02:07.585 --> 00:02:09.433 . . . 00:02:09.433 --> 00:02:12.048 feels pretty comfortable to me. 00:02:14.248 --> 00:02:16.322 OK, the next chord we're gonna check out 00:02:16.322 --> 00:02:20.867 after our Asus chord is a Dsus4 and Dsus2. 00:02:20.867 --> 00:02:22.489 Very, very simple chords again 00:02:22.489 --> 00:02:24.155 and you wait until we're finished doing this lesson 00:02:24.155 --> 00:02:25.190 you know what the chords are, 00:02:25.190 --> 00:02:26.981 I'll show you some really wicked way to use them. 00:02:26.981 --> 00:02:28.572 So, let's go to a close-up now 00:02:28.572 --> 00:02:31.782 and look at our Dsus4 and our Dsus2. 00:02:33.366 --> 00:02:35.807 So, here's our D chord, our regular old D. 00:02:35.807 --> 00:02:38.893 Now, if we wanna play Dsus4, all we do is 00:02:38.893 --> 00:02:42.561 add our little finger to the 3rd fret of the thinnest string. 00:02:42.561 --> 00:02:47.352 So there's D, here's Dsus4, 00:02:47.352 --> 00:02:50.576 lift it off, we're back at regular D, 00:02:50.576 --> 00:02:56.661 lift off the second finger, we got Dsus2 and back to D. 00:02:56.661 --> 00:02:58.055 So, good finger practice here, 00:02:58.055 --> 00:03:06.570 we're doing D, sus4, regular D, sus2 and back to D again. 00:03:07.740 --> 00:03:10.424 Now, the next chord we're gonna look at is Esus4. 00:03:10.424 --> 00:03:12.942 Now, it's a kind of a bit of a funny situation here 00:03:12.942 --> 00:03:15.253 because there's not actually a good way of playing 00:03:15.253 --> 00:03:18.311 Esus2 as an open chord, just Esus4. 00:03:18.311 --> 00:03:20.154 So that's the one we're gonna look at. 00:03:20.154 --> 00:03:22.585 Of course it is possible but it's definitely not in the scope 00:03:22.585 --> 00:03:24.700 of doing things in a beginner's guitar course 00:03:24.700 --> 00:03:26.631 because it's quite difficult to change to. 00:03:26.631 --> 00:03:29.392 So, we're just gonna be checking out Esus4. 00:03:29.392 --> 00:03:32.211 So, here we are. There's the regular E chord 00:03:32.211 --> 00:03:35.343 and if we wanna go to an Esus4 all we're doing: 00:03:35.343 --> 00:03:37.980 adding little finger underneath there 00:03:37.980 --> 00:03:39.818 . . . 00:03:39.818 --> 00:03:45.858 There's your regular E, little finger: Esus4, back to E. 00:03:45.858 --> 00:03:51.169 . . . 00:03:51.169 --> 00:03:53.381 Now, suspended chords, as you can hear, 00:03:53.381 --> 00:03:55.134 a kind of floaty sounding. 00:03:55.134 --> 00:03:57.274 So first I go to a regular D chord 00:03:57.274 --> 00:03:59.086 . . . 00:03:59.086 --> 00:04:00.898 and now if I go to a Dsus4 00:04:00.898 --> 00:04:07.952 . . . 00:04:07.952 --> 00:04:09.722 they hover around a bit. 00:04:09.722 --> 00:04:11.660 They're a little bit strange sounding chords. 00:04:11.660 --> 00:04:14.275 . . . 00:04:14.275 --> 00:04:15.744 and they wanna resolve, 00:04:15.744 --> 00:04:17.970 so you can hear Dsus4, they're really pulling to D 00:04:17.970 --> 00:04:22.489 . . . 00:04:22.489 --> 00:04:26.252 So, the first way that they're used is their own, you know, 00:04:26.252 --> 00:04:28.160 they can be a chord onto itself. 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:30.836 If you wanna use it as part of your chord sequence 00:04:30.836 --> 00:04:32.557 Bands like U2 and that sort of thing, 00:04:32.557 --> 00:04:34.651 they use a lot of suspended chords in their sound. 00:04:34.651 --> 00:04:36.822 They're really quite a hip sound, you know. 00:04:36.822 --> 00:04:39.325 Crowded House, another one of my favourite bands, 00:04:39.325 --> 00:04:41.452 they use sus chords all the time as well 00:04:41.452 --> 00:04:43.580 'cause they're really airy and open sounding 00:04:43.580 --> 00:04:46.849 because they're not considered either major or minor. 00:04:46.849 --> 00:04:48.349 Now one of the things that you can 00:04:48.349 --> 00:04:50.554 also experiment with these ones is playing 00:04:50.554 --> 00:04:52.098 just then I was doing the major chords 00:04:52.098 --> 00:04:53.390 and going to the minor chords 00:04:53.390 --> 00:04:55.190 but you can just, sorry! 00:04:55.190 --> 00:04:57.715 the major chords, then going to the sus chords 00:04:57.715 --> 00:05:00.071 but you can do it just as easily with the minor chords. 00:05:00.071 --> 00:05:03.550 So, if we look at a close up, now here of D minor. 00:05:03.550 --> 00:05:05.604 There's Dmin chord, 00:05:05.604 --> 00:05:10.109 if we add our little finger there, there's Dsus4. 00:05:10.109 --> 00:05:12.507 Same dots, different fingers. 00:05:12.507 --> 00:05:18.096 There's back to Dmin, there's Dsus2, and Dmin again. 00:05:18.096 --> 00:05:20.023 Well it's exactly the same for Amin. 00:05:20.023 --> 00:05:27.682 There's Amin, there's Asus4, back to Amin, 00:05:27.682 --> 00:05:30.987 lift off first finger, there's Asus2. 00:05:30.987 --> 00:05:35.335 We got a Emin, there's Emin, 00:05:35.335 --> 00:05:40.330 add little finger, there's Esus4, back to Emin. 00:05:41.499 --> 00:05:43.710 Now, suspended chords are very often used 00:05:43.710 --> 00:05:45.956 to embellish a regular chord sequence 00:05:45.956 --> 00:05:48.194 So, if you are stuck on the one chord for ages 00:05:48.194 --> 00:05:49.478 and you kind of get bored, 00:05:49.478 --> 00:05:51.194 you can start to add in your sus chords. 00:05:51.194 --> 00:05:54.512 So let's have a bit of a sequence that stays on D for a while 00:05:57.574 --> 00:06:00.143 And after I'm starting to get a little bit bored with my D chord 00:06:00.143 --> 00:06:02.223 and I'm looking to do something little different 00:06:02.223 --> 00:06:05.226 I can start adding a sus4 and sus2 00:06:05.226 --> 00:06:06.834 whenever I feel like it 00:06:06.834 --> 00:06:15.212 . . . 00:06:15.212 --> 00:06:17.923 Sometimes they get used quite quickly like 00:06:20.016 --> 00:06:22.954 Sometimes you play and leave them for ages. 00:06:22.954 --> 00:06:30.348 . . . 00:06:30.348 --> 00:06:32.802 Some people kind of make little riffs out of them. 00:06:32.802 --> 00:06:37.481 . . . 00:06:37.481 --> 00:06:42.299 Loads and loads of different ways of using these little suspended chords. 00:06:42.299 --> 00:06:43.666 That was with the Dmajor 00:06:43.666 --> 00:06:47.702 that I've just experimented with the Dsus4 and the Dsus2 00:06:47.702 --> 00:06:49.292 But I could have done it with the Dminor 00:06:49.292 --> 00:06:53.020 and go on like this : here's D minor 00:06:53.020 --> 00:06:56.530 to Aminor 00:06:56.530 --> 00:07:05.594 back to Dminor 00:07:05.594 --> 00:07:08.382 You can really experiment with these sus chords a whole lot 00:07:08.382 --> 00:07:10.369 They're a really, really useful chord. 00:07:10.369 --> 00:07:12.700 They're good ones to know unto themselves, 00:07:12.700 --> 00:07:15.369 but they're even better adding a little bit of embellishment 00:07:15.369 --> 00:07:17.638 and you can pretty much use them whenever you like. 00:07:17.638 --> 00:07:19.970 The big judge, of course, is use your ears. 00:07:19.970 --> 00:07:24.756 If it sounds good, it is good and if it sounds bad, it is bad. 00:07:24.852 --> 00:07:26.959 You thought i was gonna say something else didn't you? 00:07:27.021 --> 00:07:29.913 So that's something really, really cool 00:07:29.913 --> 00:07:31.505 to add to your repertoire. 00:07:31.505 --> 00:07:34.651 Try sticking with it to any of the songs that you've learned so far 00:07:34.651 --> 00:07:35.821 and have fun! 00:07:35.821 --> 00:07:36.960 That's what they're about. 00:07:36.960 --> 00:07:38.588 See you for another lesson sometime very soon! 00:07:38.588 --> 00:07:39.088 Bye, bye.