Asus4 ukulele chord

Tense and expectant. The fourth replaces the third and strains to fall back to it — the classic delayed resolution.

A suspended 4th · standard GCEA tuning · 3 shapes

How to Play Asus4 on Ukulele

The easiest shape is 2200: G string 2nd fret · C string 2nd fret · E string open · A string open.

Asus4 ukulele chord, Open position

Open position

2 2 0 0

Asus4 ukulele chord, Up the neck, fret 44

Up the neck, fret 4

7 4 5 5

Asus4 ukulele chord, Up the neck, fret 77

Up the neck, fret 7

7 9 0 7

Strings left to right are G, C, E and A, as the ukulele faces you. Numbers are frets; 0 means play the string open. Every shape is worked out from the notes the chord must contain and checked against them before it is published.

Notes in Asus4

A
root
D
4th
E
5th

A ukulele has four strings, so a 3-note chord doubles one of its notes on the spare string. Because the G string is tuned high (reentrant tuning), the lowest note you hear is usually on the C or E string, not the G.

Asus4 on Other Instruments

  • Guitar: see the Asus4 guitar chord — six strings, so the shapes are different, but the notes are the same.
  • Baritone ukulele (DGBE): 0230. A baritone is tuned like the top four strings of a guitar, so guitar shapes carry over and standard-ukulele shapes do not. Tune one with the baritone ukulele tuner.
  • Same notes: Asus4 contains exactly the notes of Dsus2, so one shape plays both.

Tune first

A right shape on an out-of-tune ukulele still sounds wrong. Check G, C, E and A in a few seconds.

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