Re: sus7 chords in \chordmode

[Kevin Barry]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:48 AM, Tim McNamara <address@hidden> wrote:

I have to take issue with the idea that “sus” could somehow apply to the 7th.  It can’t.  Suspensions specifically apply to replacing the 3rd with either the 4th or the 2nd (the latter being rare except in folk music played on guitar in the first position, and even then only a few chords lend themselves to this).  The 7th cannot be suspended;

I am not an expert on guitar chord notation, but more generally it is possible for the 7th to be a suspension, for example the inganno interruption (found in fugues and the like) produces a suspended seventh that usually resolves to a 6th.

As to the second part of your post I would say you are probably better off not removing items from chord symbols to save space unless you are absolutely sure it will not create ambiguity (which responses here suggest it might).