Suspended & power
C♯ suspended 4th chord
Hanging tension that usually resolves to a major or minor chord.
- Notes
- C♯F♯G♯
- Formula
- 145
- Built from
- root · perfect 4th · perfect 5th
How to play C♯sus4
About the C♯ suspended 4th chord
Playing it
There’s no open-string way to play C♯sus4 on guitar with the root in the bass, so the standard shape is a barre across the 4th fret (x44674).
On piano, every note of C♯sus4 is a black key.
On ukulele the usual C♯sus4 shape is 1124, using four fingers.