Suggestion for new chord symbols

[Derrek]

Such suggestions have been around for a while.

"True" sus Chords

Jazz pianist and author here. When I see Dsus I’d consider D G A where G the 4th is being suspended. Dsus4 and Dsus means the same thing since sus stands for suspending the 4th nit the 2nd. Dsus2 is a mention to play D E A. If the composer wants both supensions of the 2nd and teh 4th he’d wrote Dsus4(add2) or maybe Dsus(add2). C/D is a slash chord that dictate how to play a D7sus or D7sus4 chord, C major chord includes the b7, 9 and 11 (C, E, G) or any of its inversions. So C/D can’t be wri…