G♭sus2 — G♭ suspended second chord
The third is replaced by the second. The chord is neither major nor minor because it contains no third.
- 1 = G♭
- 2 = A♭
- 5 = D♭
- Symbol
- Gbsus2
- Root
- Gb
- Quality
- Suspended second
- Family
- suspended
- Notes
- Gb Ab Db
- Degree formula
1 2 5- Semitones from the root
0 2 7- Distinct pitch classes
- 3
- Interval structure
- Stacked from the root: 2 semitones, 5 semitones
- Notation
- Written sus2. Resolves down to the major triad, or up to the suspended fourth.
- Key
- Gb · Gb major / Eb minor key signature
Fingering charts
The library holds 4 fingerings of this chord and all of them are shown, in the library’s own order. Several fingerings of one chord is normal: the same notes can be stopped at different positions and on different strings.
Formula
The chord tones in order from the root, with the interval each one forms above it.
| Degree | Note | Semitones | Interval from the root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | G♭ | 0 | Perfect unison |
| 2 | A♭ | 2 | Major second |
| 5 | D♭ | 7 | Perfect fifth |
Inversions
An inversion is the same set of notes with a different one in the bass. The last column gives the distance of each note above the bass note, in semitones.
| Inversion | Bass note | Degree in the bass | Notes above the bass | Semitones above the bass |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| root position | G♭ | 1 | G♭ – A♭ – D♭ | 0 2 7 |
| first inversion | A♭ | 2 | A♭ – D♭ – G♭ | 0 5 10 |
| second inversion | D♭ | 5 | D♭ – G♭ – A♭ | 0 5 7 |
Playable voicings
These shapes were found by searching the fretboard of a standard-tuned guitar (E A D G B E) rather than copied from a chord book. The search allows every string to sound or to be muted, rejects any shape with a muted string between two sounding strings, rejects any shape whose fretted notes span more than four frets (a five-fret window), requires every chord tone to be present, and then sorts what remains with root-position shapes first and the most compact, lowest shapes next. The shapes shown are the first six of that ordering; other orderings are possible at the same frets.
| # | Shape (low string first) | Notes | Degrees | Bass | Span (frets) | Sounding strings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2-4-4-1-2-2 | Gb Db Gb Ab Db Gb | 1 5 1 2 5 1 | Gb | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | 2-4-4-1-2-4 | Gb Db Gb Ab Db Ab | 1 5 1 2 5 2 | Gb | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | 14-11-11-11-14-14 | Gb Ab Db Gb Db Gb | 1 2 5 1 5 1 | Gb | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | 14-11-11-13-14-14 | Gb Ab Db Ab Db Gb | 1 2 5 2 5 1 | Gb | 3 | 6 |
| 5 | 2-4-4-6-2-4 | Gb Db Gb Db Db Ab | 1 5 1 5 5 2 | Gb | 4 | 6 |
| 6 | 2-4-6-6-2-2 | Gb Db Ab Db Db Gb | 1 5 2 5 5 1 | Gb | 4 | 6 |
Shape numbers run from the lowest string to the highest, so the left-hand number is the sixth string (low E) in standard tuning. Multiple shapes are listed because a chord can be voiced several ways, and because a lower position is not always the better sounding one.
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