I have been playing for over 30 years and always struggled with theory. This lesson was great for me. The way you taught this was excellent. Kind of like teaching theory without being burdened by the theory. TYVM! Please do more
I agree. I’d always quit guitar because instructors would shove theory down my throat day 1. I finally met one that asked what song I wanna learn and he had me playing it in less than 2 days. Now that it’s been going on for awhile, I’m ready for theory because I feel all absorb it better.
Really approachable and clear explanation! I love sus2 chords when I play open chords, like a Dsus2 or a Csus2, for instance. I never thought about using them higher up the neck. I’m not great with barre chords (work in progress- it’s my disabled hands that make them tough with weak muscles), but I am great with weird shapes because I like jazz style chords. Thanks for the inspiration to give sus2 chords (and other sus chords, for that matter) a try higher up the neck. Btw, if someone can’t do it higher up the neck, it can be done in the first few frets as I’ve been doing for a long time - it’s sometimes easier to take a D chord and remove a finger off the high e to create a Dsus2 if someone is having trouble higher up. It’ll still sound similar enough in a lower register and work just as well as an accommodation of sorts! Hope this idea helps anyone who might struggle higher up the neck. This way you can keep jamming as you work on the more complicated chord shape higher up. 🎸🤘🏻😎
Thanks for the lesson Xander! Cool to learn about something probably all of us use, but did not know the significance or proper name. Always appreciate these lessons!
So glad I came across this video. I used Sus 2 chords a lot and didn’t even know that’s what they were but I agree, they just add a nice flavor to power chords that work great in rock and metal plus you can mix them with standard power chords easily.
When this video started, I thought it was going to be stuff I already know. However, your lesson on the theory and the "theory math" I did find very helpful.
Love sus2. Being influenced by nu metal and post grunge it quickly became my favourite chords for open ambient ambiguous sounds. Now thanks to Rabea I also like doing major and minor thirds off of the g string. Going the opposite way if you were to do it on the D
This was actually really helpful. I hadn’t thought much about it, but your explanation made a lot of sense to view 9 as the octave of 2 just as 8 is the octave of 1. A chord being a 1/3/5 so add a 9 to that making it an add9 also really helped me out. Thank you, & I would definitely watch more lesson videos from you!
I've got an okay understanding of theory and I'm only halfway through the video so far, but they way you explained why it's a sus2 vs some sort of 9 really put some pieces together for me. Theory has all of these idiosyncrasies for why things are called whet they're call and it often amounts to simple concepts. It sucks when people try to explain theory babble with other theory babble. Thanks for your clear explanation.
example of a sus 2 going into a flat 5 of recent times: Invisible monster by dream theater. I love playing that riff. Also, Andy Summers of the Police loves this shape. "But that's not metal" , no but it is good.
Right when I saw the heading for this video. I knew what it was bro!!!!🤘 I call them double power cords? Not sure if people understand it but I'm sure they do. A double power cord most of the time when I slide up to them I hit the power cord and add the pinky real quick😅 They are easy chords to play and they have a lot of articulation but seriously bro that's what I thought right when I saw this I said he's going to play the double power chord Floods from Pantera comes to mind and the band King's X. They use them quite a bit and I'm sure there's tons of other bands. Great video Thanks for the info It made complete sense..... Peace bruh😎
With all this music theory knowledge.would love to hear you release some more melodic music! riffs with a lot of pinch harmonics and whammy dives and 010101 has its place but gets a bit old after a while
Man, I follow you everywhere and you just ignore me. The grocery store, Home Depot, putt putt golf the other day. 😢 Jk. I can’t seem to figure out if you’ve replied, I had two questions. 1: do you give tutorials/lessons/ theory like this on your Patreon? Does it have to be a certain tier? And 2, that backdrop is killer, where did you get it? Love the vids man! Keep 🤘🏽
Great video Xander… question… why is the word “suspended” used. I get that the third not being there is the reason it’s not an add9, but what is the deal with this word suspended. Why couldn’t it be called an add2 or something. To think of a chord being “suspended” makes me think something is in the chord that shouldn’t be and is thus hanging out there, or suspended out there…
@@xanderraymondcharles yes I did. Ty man for helping me better understand that. Because I was playing it this morning. And I watched a video where dude said it was an add9. But glad I watched this video because now I got the correct info. 🤘
Errrrr, no. "Major 2nd" is an interval. A major chord has a root, a major 3rd, and a 5th. When we use either a major 2nd or a major 4th (instead of a major or minor 3rd), it becomes "suspended". Thus, a root, a major 2nd, and a 5th is a "suspended 2nd" or "sus2" chord.
@@SamBrockmann oh yes well I was just commenting the interval he hit but yea the sus2 but yea I never knew that one was the suspended second withy he low strings I have used that one a lot lol
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Xander please do more of these they are super helpful!
You got it!
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Sus2 chords are great. I smiled when you explained why we cannot call the chord an add9. It warms my heart.
Me too.
Agreed! Love this chord! Finch - New Beginnings. Used perfectly!
Exactly what I think of for Sus2 chords!
I have been playing for over 30 years and always struggled with theory. This lesson was great for me. The way you taught this was excellent. Kind of like teaching theory without being burdened by the theory. TYVM! Please do more
Thank you much for the positive feedback. Will do!
I agree. I’d always quit guitar because instructors would shove theory down my throat day 1. I finally met one that asked what song I wanna learn and he had me playing it in less than 2 days. Now that it’s been going on for awhile, I’m ready for theory because I feel all absorb it better.
I've been using these chords for about 30 years...but until watching this video, I didn't know what the proper name of them was. Thanks, Ray.
Really approachable and clear explanation! I love sus2 chords when I play open chords, like a Dsus2 or a Csus2, for instance. I never thought about using them higher up the neck. I’m not great with barre chords (work in progress- it’s my disabled hands that make them tough with weak muscles), but I am great with weird shapes because I like jazz style chords. Thanks for the inspiration to give sus2 chords (and other sus chords, for that matter) a try higher up the neck.
Btw, if someone can’t do it higher up the neck, it can be done in the first few frets as I’ve been doing for a long time - it’s sometimes easier to take a D chord and remove a finger off the high e to create a Dsus2 if someone is having trouble higher up. It’ll still sound similar enough in a lower register and work just as well as an accommodation of sorts! Hope this idea helps anyone who might struggle higher up the neck. This way you can keep jamming as you work on the more complicated chord shape higher up. 🎸🤘🏻😎
Thanks for the lesson Xander! Cool to learn about something probably all of us use, but did not know the significance or proper name. Always appreciate these lessons!
So glad I came across this video. I used Sus 2 chords a lot and didn’t even know that’s what they were but I agree, they just add a nice flavor to power chords that work great in rock and metal plus you can mix them with standard power chords easily.
When this video started, I thought it was going to be stuff I already know. However, your lesson on the theory and the "theory math" I did find very helpful.
Enjoyed this kind of video for a change- i always wanted to learn a little theory. You make it not that boring.
Love sus2. Being influenced by nu metal and post grunge it quickly became my favourite chords for open ambient ambiguous sounds.
Now thanks to Rabea I also like doing major and minor thirds off of the g string. Going the opposite way if you were to do it on the D
Your arms screams black metal! Nice chords bro. Thanx for posting. ♨️🪨♨️
This was actually really helpful. I hadn’t thought much about it, but your explanation made a lot of sense to view 9 as the octave of 2 just as 8 is the octave of 1. A chord being a 1/3/5 so add a 9 to that making it an add9 also really helped me out. Thank you, & I would definitely watch more lesson videos from you!
Also, not metal but “Message in a Bottle” employs the sus2 chord as well.
My first exposures to this chord is from both Dream Theater’s Pull Me Under and All That Remains’ This Calling. Such a great chord to utilize.
Heavily used in Failure's Stuck on You, good example and gets your hand used to making that shape.
Would love to see more videos like this! I'm an intermediate player jumping back in and you explain things in an easy to understand way.
Thanks, will do!
Daniel Johns used this type of chord a lot on Silverchair's first two albums. I've been calling this the "Silverchair chord" since 1995. 😄🤘
Great job at explaining this in a way that was detailed but easy understand. You should do more theory videos like this. I'd watch.
remember these from with you - linkin park, always nice to know the theory behind the shapes
The double power chord is always a go to for my own playing and a lot of my musical influences use it too
This one should be a universal favorite for all of us.
This has literally always been my favorite chord and I've never known anything about it, so this was super cool to learn about!
THAT'S WHAT THAT CHORD IS CALLED!! Loved this video, super helpful and as someone trying to improve on theory it was really insightful! Cheers!
I've got an okay understanding of theory and I'm only halfway through the video so far, but they way you explained why it's a sus2 vs some sort of 9 really put some pieces together for me. Theory has all of these idiosyncrasies for why things are called whet they're call and it often amounts to simple concepts. It sucks when people try to explain theory babble with other theory babble. Thanks for your clear explanation.
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I never knew this is sus 2
Ive always called it the 'floods' chord so its nice to know some more about it
Yes..I made a name for them too... as I didn't know the proper name of them.
Outstanding!
You rock bro!
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Ty, more please
You got it!
I really like these kinds of videos from you!
I appreciate you. Thanks for watching!
niceeee! it's the message in a bottle chord. i think of it as an add9 because the 2nd tonality goes after the 5th. great lesson
Pantera floods outro solo. 😀
example of a sus 2 going into a flat 5 of recent times: Invisible monster by dream theater. I love playing that riff. Also, Andy Summers of the Police loves this shape. "But that's not metal" , no but it is good.
Right when I saw the heading for this video. I knew what it was bro!!!!🤘 I call them double power cords? Not sure if people understand it but I'm sure they do. A double power cord most of the time when I slide up to them I hit the power cord and add the pinky real quick😅 They are easy chords to play and they have a lot of articulation but seriously bro that's what I thought right when I saw this I said he's going to play the double power chord Floods from Pantera comes to mind and the band King's X. They use them quite a bit and I'm sure there's tons of other bands. Great video Thanks for the info It made complete sense..... Peace bruh😎
Love these short lessons!
Glad you like them!
Awesome! It'd be cool to go deeper and hear you talk about chord progressions that you use in your songs, because I love them. Just an idea!
Thanks for this video!
I was curious, couldn’t we call it eg. C#maj9(no 3)?
I’ve seen chords written this way before and was curious to your opinion
Great explanation of sus2. Thanks
Dude, Lamb of God... Vigil. The big chord.
With all this music theory knowledge.would love to hear you release some more melodic music! riffs with a lot of pinch harmonics and whammy dives and 010101 has its place but gets a bit old after a while
My last album has leads and solos in about every song. Have you listened to it?
That Badlands guitar is fire
this is super helpful more videos like this!!
Man, I follow you everywhere and you just ignore me. The grocery store, Home Depot, putt putt golf the other day. 😢
Jk. I can’t seem to figure out if you’ve replied, I had two questions. 1: do you give tutorials/lessons/ theory like this on your Patreon? Does it have to be a certain tier? And 2, that backdrop is killer, where did you get it? Love the vids man! Keep 🤘🏽
Another good song with sus2 chords is Love Is On The Way by Saigon Kick. It's not heavy, but it's a good song.
Great video Xander… question… why is the word “suspended” used. I get that the third not being there is the reason it’s not an add9, but what is the deal with this word suspended. Why couldn’t it be called an add2 or something. To think of a chord being “suspended” makes me think something is in the chord that shouldn’t be and is thus hanging out there, or suspended out there…
Easier explanation: Sus means the 3rd is suspended in favor of either a 2nd or 4th hence sus2 or sus4
Deftones chord is what I’ve always called it
Ha! That’s hilarious! I am writing a song using this shape too and didn’t know it was a sus 2
nice guitar
Out of curiosity, why Drop C# instead of Drop C? Lol, both are fantastic tunings though
Spirit crusher taught me the chord. Death!
I thought that chord was a add 9 power chord
Hey buddy. I mean technically that’s not wrong, but that’s kind of a slang nickname ya know?
Floods!
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Root fifth and 2nd I believe
Ah yes the “Prototype” chord prototype is a thrash band that uses this chord HEAVILY like look up The Way It Ends by Prototype
Clear as mud😂
Sounds good, but the wrist hurts bro
Isn't add nine if the seventh?
That’s a major 9th chord then
@@xanderraymondcharles so it's add 9 if the 3rd or the 7th... Right? I'd never heard about the 3rd. Ty
Add 9 is 1359
Major 9 is 13579
It's the judas priest chord
I thought it was considered an add9?
nope i explained why in the video. did you watch the whole thing?
@@xanderraymondcharles yes I did. Ty man for helping me better understand that. Because I was playing it this morning. And I watched a video where dude said it was an add9. But glad I watched this video because now I got the correct info. 🤘
Sus2 rock
Isn’t that an add 9
No
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Idk man this all seems pretty sus...
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Major 2nd
Errrrr, no. "Major 2nd" is an interval. A major chord has a root, a major 3rd, and a 5th. When we use either a major 2nd or a major 4th (instead of a major or minor 3rd), it becomes "suspended". Thus, a root, a major 2nd, and a 5th is a "suspended 2nd" or "sus2" chord.
@@SamBrockmann oh yes well I was just commenting the interval he hit but yea the sus2 but yea I never knew that one was the suspended second withy he low strings I have used that one a lot lol