Posted in Cheat Tricks on May 7th, 2008
Sus2 are usually used only on Chord I and Chord IV, so there is no need to learn Sus2 for other chords in a scale.
So if you play in the C scale, all the sus2 chords you need to know are only C2 and F2.
And this is how you can play C2 and F2 with [...]
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Posted in Cheat Theories on May 7th, 2008
I have talked about Sus4 and how to improvise it with the 3 basic chords earlier. Sus2 is another form of suspension that can also be improvised with the 3 basic chords.
Let’s take a C chord (C Major chord) as example. A C-Sus2 chord is usually written as C2.
For a C chord, we play the [...]
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Posted in Cheat Tricks on Apr 20th, 2008
Note: I have cut-and-pasted the following text from my earlier version of “Suspension (part 1)” post, so that each of my postings will not appear under more than 1 category (Now, “Suspension (part 1)” is under the “Cheat Theories” category, and “Improvising Sus4” is under the “Cheat Tricks” category). At the same time, I have [...]
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Posted in Cheat Theories on Apr 19th, 2008
There are 2 types of suspended chords I know. There may actually be more but I only know 2 types. Anyway, you won’t want to learn too many chords playing the cheat way.
These 2 types of suspension I know are Sus2 and Sus4. I will come to Sus2 another day, and only [...]
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