Chord Of The Week 23/5/15 - The Holdsworth sus4no5th chord

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Closely related to last week's Csus4 8x5(9)6x, where Allan Holdsworth lets the sus4 and the 3rd ring into each other on the adjacent 2nd and 3rd strings, this week we have a purer sounding sus4no5th chord which employs the same trick to sound brilliant!

Formula for an sus4 chord is 1 4 5, which in the key of C is C, F, and G, and which often resolves to a major chord 1 3 5. On a guitar this is x 3 3 0 x x, resolving to x 3 2 0 x x. To alter to a sus4no5th, drop the G to leave x 3 3 x x x. Allan doubles the root note C and sends the 4th note up an octave, which would be x 3 x x 1 1.

Allan superimposed the sus4 chord and it's resolution so the can have the 4th degree ringing out even as it resolves down to the 3rd, creating and effect somewhat like holding the sustain pedal down on a piano. 

The easy way to do this in C is to let the open E 1st string ring out, so you might play Csus4no5th x3x56x followed by C x3x5(6)0 with the bracketed F note continuing to sound while the second chord is played.
The hard way (the Holdsworth way) is to once again play the whole thing in closed position, leading to a three-note chord that at first sight seems wilfully perverse:

Csus4no5th: 8 x 10 x 6 x
But which comes into its own when followed by 
C(add4)no5th: 8 x 10 9 (6) x
With the 2nd and 3rd strings ringing into each other.

This chord, in Ab so 4 frets down (quite a stretch, again!), is Allan's first chord in the tune White Line, which is here - 
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