Banjo Asus4 chord (Sawmill)A suspended 4th on the 5-string banjo: 0 2 2 2, and 6 more shapes

Asus4 chord chart for 5-string banjo in Sawmill tuning: 0 2 2 2, open position, with the short 5th string marked
Asus4 (A suspended 4th) on the 5-string banjo, Sawmill: 0 2 2 2, string 4 to string 1. Fingers are numbered on the dots; copper marks the root; the green ring on the left is the 5th string, solid when it’s in the chord.

Frets, string 4 to string 1: 0 2 2 2 (open position)

  1. String 4 (D): open, D
  2. String 3 (G): 2nd fret, index finger (barre), A
  3. String 2 (C): 2nd fret, index finger (barre), D
  4. String 1 (D): 2nd fret, index finger (barre), E
  5. String 5, the short g: open, G, not in the chord

Sounds: D A D E  ·  Asus4 is A, D, E (1 · 4 · 5)

The 5th string: the short g adds the ♭7 over Asus4, a colour rather than a clash.

Sawmill tuning: gDGCD, the short 5th string first, then strings 4 to 1.

Hear it in the app ›

The link can’t set the tuning: the app starts in open G. Choose Sawmill once in its Settings and it remembers.

More Asus4 shapes

  1. 13gDAED0 2 4 0
    open
  2. 111gEADD2 2 2 0
    open
  3. 1111gEADE2 2 2 2
    at the nut
  4. 7fr134gAEAD7 9 9 0
    7fr
  5. 12fr1234gDADE12 14 14 14
    12fr
  6. 14fr1111gEADE14 14 14 14
    14fr

Other A chords in Sawmill

AAmA7Am7Amaj7A6Asus4Asus2AdimAaug

Other suspended 4th chords

Gsus4Asus4Dsus4Csus4Bsus4Esus4Fsus4B♭sus4

Asus4 in other tunings

Open GDouble COpen DC Tuning

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