Upright Bass: C 6sus2 in the Changes

C 6sus2 is C – D – G – A. Naming the notes is where a chord chart stops. A tune asks the next question instead, and that is the one this page answers.

C 6sus2 has no third of its own, so it names no degree until something around it does — which is why it turns up as a suspension over a chord that already has a job rather than as a chord with one.

The upright seat carries the walk — one note a beat, the change announced on beat one and the three notes after it deciding where the next change came from. Almost none of a chord is playable this low and almost none of it is wanted: whichever note is at the bottom is the chord as far as the room is concerned, so the question is which note, and on which beat.

The diagrams mark stopping points along the EADG fingerboard, not frets — there are none. Treat every dot as a place the hand has to find by ear, and use the playback to check that it did.