D 9sus4 Chord on Guitalele
Play D 9sus4 on Guitalele: diagrams, finger positions, intervals, and every voicing up and down the neck for this instrument.
The D 9sus4 chord is a suspended dominant that replaces the third with a fourth or second over a seventh. It is built from the notes D, E, G, A, C. This page shows how to play D 9sus4 on Guitalele with clear fretboard diagrams and suggested finger positions.
There is no open-string version on Guitalele: the lowest shape barres fret 5 and covers 3 frets. D falls on the A string. It sounds from D3 up to E5.
Guitalele is tuned A–D–G–C–E–A, with 15 frets to work with. Guitar shapes work unchanged on guitalele — finger them exactly as charted; every shape sounds a perfect fourth higher than on guitar.
Browse alternate voicings to find the one that sits best under your fingers, then compare it with the other chord types built on D 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.