B suspended fourth

Bsus4

Also written Bsus · B4

NotesB · E · F♯

Formula1 · 4 · 5

Root position

The 4th replaces the 3rd and wants to fall back to it: Bsus4 → B is one of the oldest cadences there is. The same three notes are Esus2.

How pianists voice Bsus4

The same notes, laid out the way hands actually play them.

1 · 5 · 4 — root and 5th below, the 4th an octave up. The same three notes spread over two octaves: the sound of strings rather than a keyboard.

The same 3 notes with a different one in the bass. Each inversion is written as a slash chord.

Root at the bottom, stacked in 3rds: 1 · 4 · 5.

E (the 4) in the bass: 4 · 5 · 1.

F♯ (the 5) in the bass: 5 · 1 · 4.

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