Chord Shapes

Suspended 2nd Suspended 4th

Intervals: 1-2-4-5. A suspensory chord containing both 2 and 4, withholding the 3rd entirely. This maximises ambiguity between major and minor and functions mainly as a colour sonority in ambient, film and modern jazz contexts. On guitar it often arises naturally from keeping open strings ringing over changing bass notes. Because it lacks strong functional cues it works very well over pedal points, where it can drift between different bass notes while the top notes remain fixed. Think of it as a “harmonic cloud” rather than a traditional chord that must resolve.