G'day,
Has anyone ever heard of this chord, and if so, can you tell me how to play it (PLEASE!!!)?

I have seen it referenced in a guitar arrangement for Bryan Adams' song "Have you ever really loved a woman" and for an Anna Nalick song "Breathe".  As I recall it, the article on the Anna Nalick song implied that the gutarist, Louis (someone or other) made the chord up just to fit that particular song. Looking at the possible permutations for the "chord", and the fact that I can't find a reference to the chord either here, or in any of my music books, I'm convinced it's a hybrid. Then again.... I'm not the world's greatest guitarist

Can anyone help?
Ta
Alec

Esus2E would simply be the three note "power chord": 0, 2, 4, x, x, x

...where the "open" bass E6 string is the ROOT (E) note, the second-fret A5 string is the FIFTH (G) note, and the fourth-fret D4 string is the "sustained 2" (sus2) note (F#), which replaces the normal THIRD in the triad.

Old Tele Man,

Thanks.

Alec

or would it be just an Esus?

yumoses wrote:

or would it be just an Esus?

...yes, could be, but the "slash" notiation is indicating WHICH note is to be in the bass...so with this triad (R, sus2, 5) there are 3 possible inversions: R-in-bass (as in this case); sus2-in-bass; and 5-in-bass.

...5-in-bass is a common fingering/voicing used by jazz and country guitar players.

... sus2-in-bass, unfortunately, will often be incorrectly translated as a 9th-in-bass (which assumes presence of a dominant 7th note) and thus played wrong.

...apparently, the writer wanted to ensure the correct inversion (voicing) was played and thus used the explicitly directive chord naming of Esus2/E.