{"id":1020,"date":"2016-03-26T23:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T23:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2018-11-26T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T11:40:00","slug":"the-sus4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/the-sus4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sus4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/4.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2586\" data-gallery><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"4\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2586\" \/><\/a>The suspended fourth is an alteration of a chord, in which the third is moved up to the fourth note (counting from the root of the chord). For example, in <q>Csus4<\/q> the third is moved up to the <i>f<\/i>. In the classical harmony the fourth has to be resolved to the third. In jazz and pop a lot of times this chord will be followed by a regular triad as well. (Though in some styles the <q>sus4<\/q> sounds fine as it is.)<\/p>\n<p>In sum, the <q>sus4<\/q> is a third that is moved up and probably will move down. Thus, this alteration is a suspended third. I always thought it is kind of strange that the alteration is called <q>sus4<\/q>. To be exact, <q>sus3<\/q> would be more correct, or simply <q>4<\/q>. But, that is the way it goes in languages; it&#8217;s not a rational process and sometimes strange terminology arises.<\/p>\n<p>If there ever would be made a standard for writing chords, I would prefer the indication <q>4<\/q> for this alteration. It&#8217;s short and cannot be confused with another alteration or extensions.<\/p>\n\n<script>\nvar zbPregResult = '0';\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/4.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2586\" data-gallery><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"4\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2586\" \/><\/a>The suspended fourth is an alteration of a chord, in which the third is moved up to the fourth note (counting from the root of the chord). For example, in <q>Csus4<\/q> the third is moved up to the <i>f<\/i>. In the classical harmony the fourth has to be resolved to the third. In jazz and pop a lot of times this chord will be followed by a regular triad as well. (Though in some styles the <q>sus4<\/q> sounds fine as it is.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-piano-playing-and-harmony","category-8-arranging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}