Clocks Chords & Guitar Lesson
Welcome to my Clocks chord chart by Coldplay. This is a really great song to work on your 8th note strumming patterns. If you are interested in some picking, there also some cool chord inversions we can use on the first three strings to mimic the piano.
The rhythm we will be using for this song is all down 8ths notes, but, id you are savvy enough and want to work on your dynamic playing, we will be accented down strums on certain beats. If the accents are above your skill level, don’t worry. Play all downs without the accents.
Let’s check it out.
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Clocks Guitar Chords:
Clocks Strumming Patterns:
Strumming:
> > >
1+ 2+ 3+ 4+
DD DD DD DD
Here is the picking pattern that you can play instead of the chords that mimics the piano:
e -11------11------11-----|-9------9------9---|--9------9---—--9—-|-8------8--—--8----|
B ----11------11------11--|---11------11-----11-|----11--—--11---—-11|----9------9---—-9-|
G--------12------12-----|-------10-----10----|-------10-----10—---|------10-----10---—|
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Clocks Guitar Lesson:
Clocks Chord Chart:
Intro: D Am Am Em X 2 times
Verse:
D Am Am Em
Lights go out and I can't be saved, tides that I tried to swim against
D Am Am Em
Brought me down upon my knees, oh I beg I beg and plead singing
D Am Am Em
Come out of the things unsaid, shoot an apple off my head - and a
D Am Am Em
trouble that can't be named, tigers waiting to be tamed singing
Chorus:
D Am Am Em D Am Am Em
ye hooooooooh aahh ye hooooooooh aahh
D Am Am Em
D Am Am Em
Verse:
D Am Am Em
Confusion never stops, closing walls and ticking clocks - gonna
D Am Am Em
come back and take you home, I could not stop the tune now known singing
D Am Am Em
Come out upon my seas, curse missed opportunities - am I
D Am Am Em
a part of the cure, or am I a part of the disease? - singing
Chorus:
D Am Am Em D Am Am Em
ye hooooooooh aahh ye hooooooooh aahh
D Am Am Em
D Am Am Em
Bridge:
Fmaj7 Fmaj7 C G
and nothing else compares
Fmaj7 Fmaj7 C G
oh nothing else compares
Fmaj7 Fmaj7 C G
and nothing else compares
F F F F
D Am Am Em
D Am Am Em
D Am Am Em
D Am Am Em
Chorus:
D Am Am Em D Am Am Em
ye hooooooooh aahh ye hooooooooh aahh
Outro:
D Am Am Em
Home, home, where I wanted to go home
D Am Am Em
Home, home, where I wanted to go home
D Am Am Em
Home, home, where I wanted to go home
D Am Am Em
Home, home, where I wanted to go home
D Am Am Em
D Am Am Em D
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