What notes are in a Csus2 chord?

Csus2 (Sus2) is built from C, D, G — the formula R - 2 - 5 from the root.

Csus2 Chord (Sus2)

Sus2 replaces the 3rd with the 2nd — root, 2nd, perfect 5th — so the chord is neither major nor minor. The notes of Csus2 are C, D, G.

Open, airy, and harmonically ambiguous — a favourite for intros and folk/pop textures that want space instead of a clear emotional colour.

Every playable, root-in-the-bass grip standard tuning offers, computed from the chord’s own formula — not a fixed shape library.

Fret 3

Fret 5

Fret 7

Fret 10

Resolve it into the major or minor triad on the same root and notice how the 2nd wants to fall or rise into the 3rd.

R - 2 - 5 — 3 notes.

Every scale below contains all of this chord’s notes — safe territory to improvise in over it.

Also compatible: Major Pentatonic, Major Blues, Harmonic Minor, Melodic Minor.