A# Sus4 Chord on Puerto Rican Cuatro

Play A# Sus4 on Puerto Rican Cuatro: diagrams, finger positions, intervals, and every voicing up and down the neck for this instrument.

The A# Sus4 chord is a suspended chord that swaps the third for a second or fourth, leaving the harmony open and unresolved. It is built from the notes A#, D#, F. This page shows how to play A# Sus4 on Puerto Rican Cuatro with clear fretboard diagrams and suggested finger positions.

There is no open-string version on Puerto Rican Cuatro: the lowest shape barres fret 1 and covers 4 frets. A# falls on the A string. It sounds from F3 up to A#4.

Puerto Rican Cuatro is strung in five courses of two, the lower two paired an octave apart, so each stopped note here sounds as two — which is why the shape rings thicker than the same grip on a single-strung instrument.

Browse alternate voicings to find the one that sits best under your fingers, then compare it with the other chord types built on A# or explore the same shape in nearby keys. The diagrams list the notes in each voicing so you can connect the shape to the theory behind it.