C Sus4 Chord on Puerto Rican Cuatro
Play C Sus4 on Puerto Rican Cuatro: diagrams, finger positions, intervals, and every voicing up and down the neck for this instrument.
The C 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 C, F, G. This page shows how to play C Sus4 on Puerto Rican Cuatro with clear fretboard diagrams and suggested finger positions.
The lowest shape sits at fret 1 and spans 5 frets, with no open strings in it. C falls on the B string. It sounds from F3 up to C5.
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 C 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.