Guitar Upscale7sus4 Chord on guitar
A 7sus4 chord is a dominant 7th chord with the fourth in place of the third, a tense, open sound.
| Written as | C7sus4 |
|---|---|
| Formula | 1 4 5 b7 |
| Notes in C7sus4 | C F G Bb |
| Semitones from the root | 0, 5, 7, 10 |
About the 7sus4 Chord
G7sus4 is G, C, D and F.
It often resolves to the plain G7, then to C. In modal jazz and funk it stands alone as an open dominant sound.
The open shapes D7sus4, A7sus4 and E7sus4 are easy and ring well.
Intervals
- 1: Root, 0 semitones above the root
- 4: Perfect 4th, 5 semitones above the root
- 5: Perfect 5th, 7 semitones above the root
- b7: Minor 7th, 10 semitones above the root
7sus4 Chord charts in all 12 keys
Each chart shows the strings from the thick low E on the left to the thin high e on the right. Numbers in the dots are fingers: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 little, T thumb. × marks a muted string and ○ an open one. A bar across strings is a barre.
C7sus4: C F G Bb
G7sus4: G C D F
D7sus4: D G A C
A7sus4: A D E G
E7sus4: E A B D
B7sus4: B E F# A
F#7sus4: F# B C# E
C#7sus4: C# F# G# B
G#7sus4: G# C# D# F#
Eb7sus4: Eb Ab Bb Db
Bb7sus4: Bb Eb F Ab
F7sus4: F Bb C Eb
Scales to play over C7sus4
Each of these scales, started on the root of C7sus4, holds every note of the chord:
- C Natural Minor scale
- C Phrygian Mode
- C Locrian with a Natural Fifth scale
- C Harmonic Minor Bebop scale
- C Harmonic Minor Bebop with a Raised Fourth scale
- C Dorian Mode
- C Minor Pentatonic scale
- C Aeolian + Phrygian scale
- C Aeolian + Dorian scale
- C Mixolydian Mode
- C Phrygian Dominant scale
- C Adonai Malakh scale
- C In Sen Scale
- C Taishikicho scale
- C Hindu scale
- C Egyptian scale
- C Javanese scale
- C Moorish Phrygian scale
- C Blues Scale
- C Blues Scale with a Major Seventh
- C Blues Scale with Both Thirds
- C Chromatic Blues Scale
- C Mixo-Blues Scale
- C Bebop Minor scale
- C Bebop Dominant scale
- C Ten Tone Dominant scale
- C Ten Tone Harmonic scale
- C Ten Tone Minor scale