These Chords Will Make You a Better Musician

0:00 Introduction
0:24 Demo 1 - Pop ballad
0:58 Demo 2 - Modern jazz
1:32 Basic theory
3:41 Sus Chords in Ballads
5:01 Sus chord inversions
5:48 Back to ballads
7:11 Chord extensions (7sus4, 7sus2, 9sus4)
10:21 Sus chords in jazz
13:05 Voicing in fourths
19:53 Related tritone voicings

"Sus" chords - short for suspended - are one of the coolest ideas in music theory, used by modern keyboard players from gospel and pop to jazz (by giants such as McCoy Tyner, who is featured on this lesson's thumbnail). In this video I will take you from a total sus-noob into a sus-master, covering both modern pop styles as well as jazz. We'll look at many examples and underlying theory, explaining what sus chord are and how and when to use them.