Playing Sus 4 Ukulele Chords

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Part of the video series: Playing Complex Ukulele Chords

Summary: There are a few subtle differences in playing Sus 4 chords on the ukulele as opposed to the guitar. Learn how to form and play it on the ukulele from our expert musician in this free video clip.

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Thomas Marchevsky Thomas Marchevsky is a professional guitarist/composer and college professor. He has an M.M. in guitar from the New England Conservatory in Boston. He teaches... read more

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Playing Sus 4 Ukulele Chords

Now these chord qualities that I'm discussing will work on all of the chords that you've learned earlier. I'm using G as an example, but use this theory of moving the threes, and the fives, and the sevens, and the roots, to create these chord in other keys other than G. Now, I'm going to be discussing a suspended 4 chord. Now, suspended, if you didn't see a number after the word suspended, it would imply suspended 4. You might see G sus which would mean G sus 4, or G suspended which would mean G suspended 4. You have to put the 2 if you're going to define it as a suspended 2 chord. If you recall, in the last clip, suspended means get rid of the three, put something else in it's place. Suspended 4 means get rid of the third and put the four of the scale in it's place. Now, in a G major scale, G, B, D are the one, three, and five. So, if you go up a half step from the B, that puts you on C, which would be the 4. So, we're going to go back to our G chord, here. Our third is under the middle finger, that's a B. Bring it up a half step to C, that's our 4. (play demo note) And, now, since you've gotten rid of the three, it's suspended, put the 4 in the place of it and you've got a G suspended 4 chord.

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