Most chords arrive as one more shape to memorize. The first two this week don't: Csus2 (x-3-5-5-3-3) and Fsus2 (x-8-10-10-8-8) are the same five-string grip, same fingering, five frets apart. One move, two chords. And the grip isn't even new — it's open Asus2 walked up three frets.
All three parts of this post play the same four bars: Csus2 | Fsus2 | Am9 | G6/A, in C major, 4/4, straight sixteenths at ♩ = 70, standard tuning and no capo, bars 1–4 repeated. (The Legato and Thirds parts label those same bars with their plain names — C, F, Am, G. Both spellings are correct.) The harmony never changes across the three parts. What changes is how far you're standing from the shape.
Rhythm holds the grip, moves it the five frets, and lets a picking hand that never stops moving in sixteenths turn two chords into a groove — this is where the hook actually gets played. Legato puts the grip down entirely: the same harmony as an open-position melody, ornamented with hammer-ons and pull-offs, with nothing above the third fret and the friendliest fretting-hand demands of the three. Thirds takes that harmony up the neck one note at a time, as a line of descending diatonic thirds on the top two strings, answered in the even bars by plain chord arpeggios — and that's the Intermediate one.
Work all three and you finish the week having played one progression as a grip, as a line, and as an interval study. Take them in order, or take whichever one fits the week you're having.
