Sus the Secondary

a held breath inside the borrowed dominant
Gospel · Pop · Jazz
2sus4 → 2⁷ → 5

The sus-delay trick works on rented dominants too: suspend the V/V before its third arrives and the double cadence gains a hinge of stillness. The suspended 4th of the 2 chord is the home key's 5 — so the note you're delaying toward is literally the destination.

hear it in gospel vamps · worship pre-choruses
Lead-in — how players set it upFrom 6-⁷ — the lane hands off into the suspended dominant.Or from plain 1 — the sus is the first colored event.Or double-suspend: 5sus follows 2sus, breath after breath.Follow — where it usually goes5 arrives already framed — cadence home or park on it.Cash the full double cadence once the sus releases.Or park on 5 — suspended arrival, half cadence, silence.
Sing the suspension: the 2sus4's held note is the key's 5 — keep it ringing while the chord resolves under it.Target tones (in C)Dsus4 — lean on G (4)D7 — lean on F# (3) · C (b7)G — lean on B (3)Half-step wiresG ↘ F# · F# → G · C ↘ B
Dsus42sus
D72⁷
G5
Am76-⁷
Dsus42sus
D72⁷
C1
Dsus42sus
D72⁷
Dsus42sus
D72⁷
Gsus45sus
G75⁷
G5
C1
D72⁷
G75⁷
C1
G…hold
Play this on the neck in Key Change Lab →

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