| Learn the easy music theory behind chord suspension and resolution. With tab. By Matt Warnock |
Suspended chords, or “sus chords” as they are better known, are somewhat of an enigma in the realm of modern harmony. They float between the worlds of major and minor chords, somehow sounding like they can function in any harmonic situation, regardless of key or tonality. They are at once full and heavy sounding (mostly a result of the perfect-fifth interval they contain), while at the same time open-ended and harmonically ambiguous, due to the lack of a major or minor third.
