Xx223x. Is there a name for it besides Asus? I bought a fun little app for my Kindle Fire that plays chord changes but Asus isn’t included.
TIA!
Asus4 is another name for it, but I suppose you probably would have figured that out. There’s no other name to that chord that I can think of (well, it could be an E quartal triad or a different voicing for a Dsus2, I suppose.) You might be able to sub in an A major there (or possibly an A minor, depending on what the suspension would normally resolve to), but it’s going to have a different feel to it.
Asus4 is it. Thanks, puly."
I suppose you could call it an Asus4, as it is an E-A-D (the “traditional” Asus4 includes: A-E-A-D-E)
Also, it might also work as a Dsus2?
Pushing this farther than we need to, if we think “E minor chord family”, due to the lowest note being an E:
E-A-D would translate a 1-4-7… not sure what that would be called…
I’d just call it a triad of 4ths. One of my favorite things to do is move it up and down a half step over a jazz bass ostinato. Shamelessy stolen from Mike Stern.
And if you arpeggiate it, it’s the first three notes to the original Star Trek theme.
Normally, when I’ve found that chord in guitar music with that fingering, it’s been harmonically functioning as an Asus4. Yes, it could be a quartal, it could be a Dsus2, it could be an E7sus4, or any of a number of things depending on context. But the vast majority of the time, it’s an Asus4.
Yeah, I play mostly piano, but sticking in a chromatically ascending quartal triadic arpeggio is fun in all sorts of contexts. I throw them in my blues licks as a way to briefly play “out” and create tension (usually on the transition from the I to the IV chord).
Hey that’s all news to me after figuring out what the notes were by counting out the frets, I got E-A-D like everyone else. I would have said just an E quartal chord (sus4 with a b7), but it’s good to get a more straight dope on the way that would usually be played. Never would have guessed straight up Asus4, but I’ll take everyone’s word for it and consider that something to look out for. Cool!
Actually, I should be careful, because I don’t usually see that chord with the A string and high E string muted. Normally, I see the fretting include at least the open high E, and often the A, as well. That said, context is everything. If the OP could give us the rest of the chords around it, I could make a better guess as to the “proper” name of the chord, but Asus4 is what the betting man in me is going to bet it is (that, and the OP did mention Asus in the initial post.)