[Dixielandjazz] Suspended Chords

[Steve Barbone]

No doubt about it, suspended chords are neat.

Like take a CFG (Csus4) and invert it (separated by 4ths) as FCG. You could
write it as a C/F chord, I'll leave that up to the theory folks to explain.

Or think "power" chords used by R & R guitarists. Drop the 3rd, (or sus4th)
and just play a 1,5. Thus you get a Bill Gunter "average" chord that could
be either a major or a minor . . . which ever way you want to go.

But don't blame it on the rockers, the 1,5 chord has been around for a very
long time in music. Heck, didn't J.S. Bach do a bunch of counterpoint via
5ths way back when?

But it was a rock guitarist who figured out you could do an entire song
using them only about 40 or 50 years ago. :-) VBG

Now, how about sus46 chords?

Cheers,
Steve Barbone