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Bbsus4 chord on guitar

Bbsus4 is a suspended fourth chord: tense and hanging, wanting to fall back to the major chord. It is built from Bb, Eb and F (formula 1 4 5). Players often move sus4 to major and back to make one chord sound like a riff. The easiest way to play it in standard tuning is x11341.

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x 1 1 3 4 1
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x x 8 10 11 11

Bbsus4 fingerings (low E to high E)

  1. Barre at fret 1: x11341. Mute the low E string, barre fret 1 from the A to the high E string.
  2. Barre at fret 6: 668866. Barre fret 6 from the low E to the high E string.
  3. Fret 8: x-x-8-10-11-11. Mute the low E and A strings.

Questions

What notes are in the Bbsus4 chord?
Bbsus4 is made of Bb, Eb and F: the root, perfect 4th and perfect 5th above Bb.
What is the easiest way to play Bbsus4?
Play x11341 (low E to high E): mute the low E string, barre fret 1 from the A to the high E string.

Also try: Bb Major · Bb Minor · Bb7 · Bbmaj7 · Chord Charts