Yeah eggman your right. I shouldn't have written the power-chord and E5 as being the same. Although I have those terms different from you, a power-chord is x577xx and a D5 is x57xxx. You could write both as having an inversion, it‘s not a law not to. But when I think of a power-chord it's just a term of playing a chord like this x577xx. Just the most basic and common chord on the guitar. D5 is different and can be written as an inversion, basically you play a standard D5 chord x57xxx but you put the 5th in the bass instead of root so it looks like this 557xxx. Why I said the chord leedogg was asking about a sus4 is just because it had the characteristics of a "D5" chord (in my book), but the interval was a 4th. And 4th's are natural suspensions when played harmonically. Play the inversion with a power chord and you get this 5577xx, which to me is a D5/A (both root and 5 are doubled as octaves) or Asus4. No longer a power-chord. Taken how you see it, switch the terms and you should see what I am saying.

noticing, thanks for the reply dude. Johnny-on-the-spot as usual . When you say the next logical step would be to move the G up a whole step, or down a half step, what are you basing that on?

I’m basing that on the most common suspension and the fact it’s a major suspension. A suspension is just a chord suspended before it reaches a stable chord. Moving G down a half-step will move the Gsus4 to Gmaj. Moving the G up a whole step will move the Gsus4 to G5. Move the G down a whole step if your wanted to go to a G minor chord. These are the most common.

What if you kept the D, and moved the G up a half step to a G#?

This would just be a less common suspension although it is used. Moving the G up a half step to G# will move the Gmsus4 to Gdim (or half-diminished). In this case the G suspension chord will most likely need to be a minor suspension 4th chord. Gmsus4 = 1, b3, 4, (5)<~optional.

(Dsus5? or nonexistant cause it sounds bad?)

No such chord. Anytime a 5th is introduce to a chord that chord becomes stable. The other suspension chord is the “sus2”. Not to be confused with a 9th chord. You don’t know you have a suspension until the next chord/note. This all depends on where this (suspended) note is going. If it’s a suspension, the root note will stay and the suspended interval (in this case sus2) will either move up or down to a stable note with in the chord like the root or the 3rd.

What causes that clash?

I’m not sure what clash you are referring to.

[Edited by noticingthemistake on 07-17-2003 at 01:41 PM]