Chords for Clapton "Concepts" This is NOT for beginning guitar players 7 minute guide

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
any kind of D rock thing, anything but a [F#] straight D minor blues, this concept is going to work.
But what I want to do instead of showing you exact licks here at the end,
I'm going to try to show you the concepts, you know, with some licks as an example,
but more the concepts.
So what I'm doing is I'm combining the concept of the major pentatonic and the minor pentatonic.
So the first thing I want to show you, like I said, we're in the key of D.
So I think it's really important.
Let's look at the D notes, the root that we've got.
And then we'll relate them a bit to the scale positions.
So I'm not going to go down here at all.
I'm going to start with my lowest D note as the fifth fret of the A string.
[D] Now keep in mind if you're in another [Cm] key, you're going to want to do the same thing
and plug in those roots for that key.
Like, you know, for instance, if it was A, [A] then we've got an A there, an A there, an A there, an A there.
You know, you [F#] want to start to get familiar with that.
Let's go back to D now.
So we're in the key of D, D blues, D rock.
Fifth fret on the [D] A string.
_ _ [A#] Okay?
The [G#m] next one that I've got is _ the seventh fret of the G string.
_ Same note.
Octave up, but same note.
_ _ _ Okay?
The next one is the tenth fret of the [D] low E.
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ And then the next one from there would be the twelfth fret of the D [D] string.
_ _ _ [A#] And then we've got the tenth fret of the high E.
_ _ _ [E] _
_ [A#] _ _ _ _ And just for the shiggles, we're going to do one more _ fifteenth fret of the B string.
_ That seems like a hard thing to remember.
[E] You know, [D] go back to the drawing board a little bit or just start with one spot.
Okay?
So here it is again. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A#] _ _ _
_ _ Next thing I want to do is play below it.
So the tenth fret on the low E, _ we're not going to deal with that right now.
But the other ones we are.
But the first one is going to be that fifth fret of the A string.
So what [A] I want to do is I'm going to go below it on the fifth of the E string and hammer up to the seventh.
[B] _ And that would be called the major sixth, and that gives it that sweet sound.
But it's still neutral enough to be major or minor in this setting. _
_ _ [D] _ And then I double up on that root. _
_ _ Okay?
Let's do the exact [E] same thing in the other spots.
Seventh fret on the G string, we're going to do the exact same [F#m] thing. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Okay?
Tenth fret on the high E, same thing.
[A#] _ _ _ _ _
_ And then the fifteenth on the B, [F#] we have to, you know, the B strings tune differently than the other strings.
So it would actually be fourteen to sixteen on the [Bm] G and then fifteen on the B.
[Gm] And that's the BB box we've been doing.
[F#m] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
[F#] Okay?
The next thing we're going to do is we're going to add _ that in between major third, minor third, and fourth sound.
[E] _ _ _ [D] _ [F#] So that time I was bending it to that note, which makes it kind of the minor pentatonic.
[D] _ _ [E] _
_ [D] _ _ _ Great sound, huh? _
[E] _ _ [D] _ _ Same thing here.
_ [E] _
_ _ [A#] _ _ [F#m] Same thing right here. _
_ [F#] _ _ [A#] _ _ Same thing here.
[E] Well, _ you know, that finger difference. _
_ _ [F#] _ Seventeenth fret of the B. _
_ [Gm] And that's that BB box.
[E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ [A#] Okay?
Now if we want the real sweet sound, we just bend [F#] it a little bit farther to the major third.
[D] _ _ [F#] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ [E] Same thing here.
_ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ Here's the minor third again.
_ [E] _ _ [D] _
_ Major third.
_ _ [F#] _ _ [D] _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Same [F#m] thing right here.
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ Right here.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Now we can bend, it's going to be hard on the A string, but we can bend to what's called the fourth, [G] _ which is neutral again.
It's major or minor. _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ And _ _ [B] it sounds good to hear it bend up to that [E] fourth. _ _
[F#] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
And if it's going up the minor third, major third, fourth, if it keeps going up, you can do each one.
[F#] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ And I was trying to [A#] do that a lot in the intro sequence.
[D] _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [Bm] _ _
Okay?
[F#] The other thing is no bend at all.
Hammer on, pull [D] off.
No bend.
_ [B] _ Then [Bm] to that, it would be the seventh fret of the E string.
And then to the A string.
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _