Chords for Clocks - Coldplay | EASY PIANO TUTORIAL

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_ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _ [F] Hey everybody, today we're going to check out Clocks by Coldplay, a really [Gm] easy song
that I teach beginners all [B] the time.
Generally, you can [Ab] walk out of one [Gm] lesson and have this whole song under your belt.
[Ab] So check it out.
There are only three [Bb] different shapes that you need to learn [Ab] for this song.
So let's take one hand.
We'll take the right hand and we'll try [E] this first.
Locate [C] middle C _ right here before the two black keys.
It should sound like this, not like this.
[Fm] _ _ _
_ These are too high.
[C] So _ middle C.
_ And what we're going to do is count up [E] C, D, [Fm] E, [G] F, _ G.
G is going to be our very first note.
So with your right hand, use the thumb to hold onto a G.
Use your index or finger two, as we call it in the [Bb] piano world, to play B flat, which
is the black key [G] between A and [Bb] B.
Hold these two.
And then use your pinky or finger five to play [Eb] E flat, _ which is between D and E right here. _
So all in all, you have G, B flat, and E flat.
So you have a chord here, which is just a group of notes being [Bb] played together.
This is called an E flat [Eb] major chord. _ _
_ So get used to this, having it under your fingers, pushing all the notes together, making
a nice clean sound.
Just try it a few times. _ _ _
So that's about a third of the song, believe it or not.
So once you have that, try this.
[Fm] Right below the G where you were, go down to F with your thumb.
_ [Bb] _ Use your middle finger to play B flat.
_ Use your [Bbm] pinky to play D flat.
_ _ Should look like this.
_ _ _ And just get used to that.
_ _ _ _ Now once you do that, don't forget to go back and review what you did [Eb] previously, because
otherwise, it's gone.
So _ this was our first chord, G, B flat, E flat.
Here's [Bbm] our second one.
_ F, B flat, D flat.
_ So there's one remaining chord that you have to do.
You're going to keep the thumb [Fm] on F, _ middle finger now goes on A flat, _ _ pinky goes on C.
_ Like that.
So get used to that.
And your three shapes are as [Eb] follows.
_ One, [Bbm] _ _ _ two, [Fm] _ _ _ three.
That's the entire song.
[Eb] So now what you want to do is copy and paste that to your left hand.
So while playing what you learned with the right hand, copy it an octave below.
_ You can see I have the same notes here.
_ Pinky, three and one tend to work out best for most hands, unless you're an alien.
_ The next one, [Bbm] _ _
this _ _ _ _ tends to work out well with five, two, and one. _
Like that.
_ And the last [Fm] one is _ five, three, and one.
A perfect mirror image of the right hand, which is one, three, and five.
So try [Eb] these together a few times.
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_ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _
Now for the next step, we're going to change one little thing, [Eb] which is take the second
chord and double the length of the chord.
So let me show you what that means.
_ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ Right here.
_ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _
Okay, we want to do this because when you listen to [Eb] the song, it doesn't go, _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _
that's too soon.
[Eb] It goes, _ _ _ [Bbm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _
_ _ right?
So they stretch out that second chord a little bit.
It's two measures [Gb] long or two bars long.
[Eb] _ So at the end of the day, _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _
once you have that, you're ready to [Ab] roll the notes or arpeggiate
the notes, which just means [G] playing the notes of the chords one at a [Gb] time [E] and rolling them.
[Abm] So you can see I'm taking the shapes [G] I taught you and [Eb] I'm rolling the notes from top to
bottom like this. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ But notice I don't complete the roll on the third time.
So one, _ _ two, _ _ _ _ I stop sort of midway here.
So that's the pattern.
So you get eight notes _ and _ _ _ you do the same thing [Bbm] for each one. _ _ _ _ _
Again, _ _ _ _ _ _ [Fm] finally, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Bbm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ all you have to do is [Bb] work on it for maybe a couple of minutes, couple
of hours, couple of days.
Everybody [G] learns differently.
Some [Gb] people might [Fm] take weeks.
It doesn't really matter.
And when you feel that that's [G] easy, boost your tempo [Eb] up a little bit and try _ _ [Bbm] just _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _
_ _ _ like that.
And that's the entire