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Hey, how're you doing? Justin here.

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In this lesson today

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we're going to be checking out suspended chords,

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which are very, very cool little chords

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that float around in the air all by themselves.

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No, seriously, so, suspended chords,

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what they really mean - the technical term,

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for any of you that know a bit of your music theory,

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'suspended' means: take away the third and replace with ..

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Now chords are usually made up of

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a root, a third and a fifth

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and it's the third of the chord that dictates

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whether a chord is considered major or minor.

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So, those of you that have done your exercise

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working out what the notes are of your different chords

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will know, let's say for an A chord,

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there's only one note different between A and Amin

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and that's the C# has been replaced by the note C in Amin.

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Just an interesting little bit of food

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for you theory monsters out there.

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So, what we're going for now

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is using these suspended chords

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and we're gonna start off with Asus4 and Asus2.

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Okey-dokey, here we are looking at -

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this is an A chord traditional style

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with the fingers 1, 2, 3 all in a row.

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Now, if we are looking at a regular A

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and we wanna play an Asus4

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we simply add our little finger

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on the 3rd fret of the 2nd string.

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. . .

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Asus4, then we go back to regular A

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and if we lift off our second finger

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we get our Asus2

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and back to A.

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A, Asus 4, regular A, Asus2.

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If you have been doing this playing the A

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with your first and second fingers swapped over,

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there's your regular A, Asus4,

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just as easy to do it that way,

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here, and then lifting that same finger off for Asus2.

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. . .

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Maybe, for you guys it feels the same,

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for me this one feels a lot more comfortable,

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probably 'cause that's the way I learned A

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but just doing that there

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. . .

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feels pretty comfortably to me.

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OK, the next chord we're gonna check out

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after our Asus chord is a Dsus4 and Dsus2.

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Very, very simple chords again

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and you wait until we're finished doing this lesson

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you know what the chords are,

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I'll show you some really wicked way to use them.

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So, let's go to a close-up now

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and look at our Dsus4 and our Dsus2.

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So, here's our D chord, our regular old D.

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Now, if we wanna play Dsus4, all we do is

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add our little finger to the 3rd fret of the thinnest string.

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So there's D, here's Dsus4,

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lift it off, we're back at regular D,

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lift off the second finger, we got Dsus2 and back to D.

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So, good finger practice here,

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we're doing D, sus4, regular D, sus2 and back to D again.

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Now, the next chord we're gonna look at is Esus4.

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Now, it's a kind of a bit of a funny situation here

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because there's not actually a good way of playing

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Esus2 as an open chord, just Esus4.

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So that's the one we're gonna look at.

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Of course it is possible but it's definitly not in the scope

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of doing things in a beginner's guitar course

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because it's quite difficult to change to.

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So, we're just gonna be checking out Esus4.

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So, here we are. There's the regular E chord

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and if we wanna go to an Esus4 all we're doing:

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adding little finger underneath there

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. . .

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There's your regular E, little finger: Esus4, back to E.

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Now, suspended chords, as you can hear,

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a kind of floaty sounding.

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So first I go to a regular D chord

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. . .

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and now if I go to a Dsus4

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they hover around a bit.

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They're a little bit strange sounding chords.

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. . .

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and they wanna resolve,

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so you can hear Dsus4, they're really pulling to D

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So, the first way that they're used is their own, you know,

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they can be a chord onto itself.

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If you wanna use it as part of your chord sequence

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Bands like U2 and that sort of thing,

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they use a lot of suspended chords in their sound.

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They're really quite a hip sound, you know.

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Crowded House, another one of my favourite bands,

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they use sus chords all the time as well

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'cause they're really airy and open sounding

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because they're not considered either major or minor.

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Now one of the things that you can

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also experiment with these ones is playing

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just then I was doing the major chords

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and going to the minor chords

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but you can just, sorry!

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the major chords, then going to the sus chords

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but you can do it just as easily with the minor chords.

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So, if we look at a close up, now here of D minor.

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There's Dmin chord,

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if we add our little finger there, there's Dsus4.

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Same dots, different fingers.

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There's back to Dmin, there's Dsus2, and Dmin again.

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Well it's exactly the same for Amin.

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There's Amin, there's Asus4, back to Amin,

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lift off first finger, there's Asus2.

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We got a Emin, there's Emin,

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add little finger, there's Esus4, back to Emin.

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Now, suspended chords are very often used

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to embellish a regular chord sequence

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So, if you are stuck on the one chord for ages

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and you kind of get bored,

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you can start to add in your sus chords.

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So let's have a bit of a sequence that stays on D for a while

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And after I'm starting to get a little bit bored with my D chord

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and I'm looking to do something little different

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I can start adding a sus4 and sus2

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whenever I feel like it

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Sometimes they get used quite quickly like

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Sometimes you play and leave them for ages.

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. . .

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Some people kind of make little riffs out of them.

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Loads and loads of different ways of using

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these little suspended chords.

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That was with the Dmajor

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that I've just experimented with the Dsus4 and the Dsus2

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I could have done it with the Dminor

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and go on like this : here's D minor

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to Aminor

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back to Dminor

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You can really experiment with these sus chords a whole lot

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They're a really, really useful chord.

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They're good ones to know unto themselves,

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but they're even better adding a little bit of embellishment

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and you can pretty much use them whenever you like.

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The big judge, of course, is use your ears.

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If it sounds good, it is good and if it sounds bad, it is bad.

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So that's something really, really cool

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to add to your repertoire.

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Try sticking with it to any of the songs

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that you've learned so far and have fun!

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That's what they're about.

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See you for another lesson sometime very soon!

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Bye, bye.