Power and suspended chords on the fretboard

These chords leave out the third or swap it for a neighbour. The power chord is only a root and a fifth, while suspended chords replace the third with a second or a fourth. None of them sounds major or minor on its own.

Open the fretboard

Standard tuning

Power Chord

Suspended Second

Suspended Fourth

Dominant Seventh Suspended Fourth

More chord families

Tunings